Television Competition in Anchorage.
The Anchorage TV market is 155th in population, but show me a similar market with as many TV stations.
Full Service TV
- KTUU CH 2 NBC- Commercial
- KTBY CH 4 - Commercial
- KYES CH 5 UPN- Commercial
- KAKM CH 7 PBS - Non Commercial
- CH 9 Unused allocation applied for by KAKM and Anchorage Baptist Temple. - Non Commercial
- KTVA CH 11 CBS- Commercial
- KIMO CH 13 ABC- Commercial
- KCFT-LP CH 20 Anchorage Baptist Temple - Commercial
- KDMD CH 33 PAX - Home Shopping -commercial but no local advertising.
Low Power TV, Cable and Other
- GCI Cable - Traditional Wireline Cable TV
- Some digital channels
- Smaller Kenai and Homer systems, with about 3-4,000 subs in Kenai and 500 in Homer
- Alaskan Choice TV - LPTV UHF subscription TV.
- 16 over the air channels
- EPG is in the clear on channel 64.
- Serves Anchorage, Mat-SU and can be seen in spots in the Kenai.
- WantTV, a multiple channel MDS (microwave) wireless TV system.
- KTBN Trinity Translator, UHF channel 44
- Rogers Cable (about 2,000 households). A Canadian company has only one US system, and this is it. In Wasilla.
- Eyecom Cable (about 400 households). This is in Girdwood, a part of the Municipality of Anchorage.. but remote from the rest of us.
- DBS Satellite is less of a factor than lower 48 due to need for 1.2 meter (minumum) dish size.