KJUD

KJUD (channel 8) is a television station in Juneau, Alaska, United States, affiliated with ABC, The CW Plus, and Fox. Owned by Vision Alaska LLC, the station maintains a transmitter along Douglas Highway in West Juneau. Master control and some internal operations are based at the facilities of fellow ABC affiliate and Your Alaska Link flagship KYUR in Anchorage.

History

KINY-TV, Juneau's first television station, signed on the air on February 19, 1956,[2] becoming KJUD in 1983. For many years, it was Juneau's only commercial station, and is still the only full-power commercial station in the area.

Initially, KJUD carried programming from ABC, NBC, and CBS for many years. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.[3]

In 1995, the station became a part of the Alaska Superstation network, with KIMO (now KYUR) and KATN. In September 2006, KJUD began to show programming from The CW on its digital subchannel. The subchannel was initially known as Juneau CW, but has since been rebranded to Alaska CW. Smith Media sold KJUD and the remainder of the "ABC Alaska's Superstation" system to Vision Alaska LLC in 2010.[4] On September 1, 2011, KJUD began carrying programming from the Fox network on digital subchannel 8.3; the subchannel became the first Fox affiliate in the Juneau market.[5]

In 2022, the station and its sisters outsourced their news programming to News Hub, which had recently been acquired by Coastal Television, as Your Alaska Link News.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

References

  1. Alaska Blue Book Alaska Department of Education, Division of State Libraries, 1973^
  2. FCC History Cards for KINY-TV (KJUD). Federal Communications Commission.^
  3. Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films Boxoffice, November 10, 1956^
  4. Alaska TV group sold Television Business Report, January 15, 2010, retrieved January 16, 2010^
  5. Fox Inks Affiliate in Juneau, Broadcasting & Cable, June 1, 2011.^
  6. RabbitEars TV Query for KJUD RabbitEars.info, retrieved December 22, 2024^