KTVF

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KTVF
city =
station_
station_slogan = Your Town, Your News, Your Station
station_branding = KTVF 11 (general)
News Center 11 (newscasts)
analog = 11 (VHF)
digital = 26 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = NBC
network =
founded =
airdate = February 1955 [The "Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook" says February 17, while the "Television and Cable Factbook" says February 3.]
location = Fairbanks, Alaska
callsign_meaning = TeleVision Fairbanks
former_callsigns =
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Newport Television, LLC
licensee =
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = Primary:
CBS (1955-1996)
Secondary:
ABC (1971-1985)
NBC (1985-1996)
UPN (1995-2000)
effective_radiated_power = 50.1 kW (analog)
12 kW (digital)
HAAT = -15 m (analog)
-11 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 49621
coordinates = coord|64|50|34.3|N|147|42|58.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.webcenter11.com/ www.webcenter11.com]

KTVF, channel 11, is an NBC affiliate serving Fairbanks, Alaska. It signed on the air as the market's first television station in February 1955 and was a CBS affiliate until April 1, 1996.

While primarily a CBS station, KTVF also served as secondary affiliates for ABC from 1971 to 1985 (when they aired some of ABC's top-rated shows like "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "Happy Days", "Laverne & Shirley", "Three's Company", and "Eight is Enough" as well as "Wide World of Sports" and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996 before switching to the latter network. The reasons for the network switch was that rival station KATN -- which had NBC affiliation since signing on a couple weeks after KTVF but had been primarily with ABC since 1984 -- would be merged with two other ABC stations in Anchorage and Juneau to form ABC Alaska's SuperStation, and that NBC was the dominant network by the 1995-96 season while CBS was in third place. KTVF also carried UPN programming on the weekends from 1995 to 2000. Fox affiliate KFXF aired a few CBS shows until K13XD signed on in August.

KTVF is currently owned by Newport Television, LLC previous owners include Clear Channel Communications; Northern Television, Inc. and the Ackerley Group. Its transmitter is located in Fairbanks.

In June 2003, Media News Group, owner of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, announced that it would exercise an option to purchase KTVF. The seven-year option, pending removal of the FCC's restrictions on newspaper/broadcast ownership, was granted to Media News in 1999 when Northern Television sold the station to Ackerley. The FCC eliminated this rule on June 3, 2003, but implementation has been stayed pending the outcome of litigation.

References

External links

*TVQ|KTVF
*BIA|KTVF|TV|TV