KATN
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| KATN | |
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| Fairbanks, Alaska | |
| Branding | ABC Alaska News ABC 2 KATN |
| Slogan | Alaska's Superstation |
| Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary until 1985) The CW (DT2) |
| Owner | Smith Media, LLC (Smith Media License Holdings, LLC) |
| First air date | March 1, 1955 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Alaska Television Network |
| Former callsigns | KFAR-TV (1955-1981) KTTU-TV (1981-1984) |
| Former affiliations | NBC (1955-1996, secondary from 1985) |
| Transmitter Power | 28.2 kW (analog) 16 kW (digital) |
| Height | 12 m (analog) 230 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 13813 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.aksuperstation.com |
KATN debuted on March 1, 1955 as KFAR-TV, and was Fairbanks' second television station after KTVF. It became KTTU-TV (no relation to the Tucson, Arizona station) in 1981 and KATN in 1984. It is now a part of the ABC Alaska Superstation.
KATN was primarily an NBC station with ABC as the secondary network until 1984, when KIMO bought the station, changed the call letters (the ATN in KATN stood for Alaska Television Network, a consortium of KATN, KIMO, and KJUD), and made them the primary ABC affiliate. KATN would continue to carry NBC programs as a secondary affiliate until 1996 when KTVF flipped from CBS to NBC in response to KATN's new ownership. Until the launch of KFXF in 1992, they were Fairbanks' only two commercial network stations.
In September 2006, KATN began to show programming from The CW Television Network on its digital subchannel. It is known as the Fairbanks CW.
[edit] External links
- Station website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KATN
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KATN-TV
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