KTVF

KTVF is an NBC affiliate television station serving Fairbanks, Alaska. KTVF is owned by Chena Broadcasting, LLC, but is operated by Tanana Valley Television Company, owner of Fox affiliate KFXF and CBS affiliate K13XD. Its transmitter is located on Ester Dome, while its studios are located on International Drive in downtown Fairbanks.

History

The station signed on the air in February 1955 as the first television station serving what at the time was the smallest television market in the United States. The station 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 it 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, Super Bowl XIX and the Academy Awards) and NBC from 1985 to 1996. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. In 1967, months after the Chena River flood temporarily knocked them off the air, KTVF rebuilt their studios in the Northward Building (where they still remained until 1990) and returned to the air, this time broadcasting in color.