KTUU facts for kids
Quick facts for kids KTUU-TV |
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| Anchorage, Alaska | |
| Branding | Channel 2 (general) Channel 2 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Alaska's News Source |
| Channels | Digital: 10 (VHF) |
| Subchannels | 2.1 NBC 2.2 Justice Network |
| Affiliations | NBC (since 1971; also joint primary 1953–1967, secondary 1967–1970) |
| Owner | Gray Television |
| Founded | October 16, 1953 |
KTUU-TV, virtual channel 2 (VHF digital channel 10), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KYES-TV (channel 5). The two stations share studios on East 40th Avenue in Anchorage; KTUU's transmitter is located in Knik, Alaska.
On cable, the station is available on GCI channel 2 and in high definition on digital channel 652. It is also carried on DirecTV and Dish Network in the Anchorage television market. Some of KTUU's programming is broadcast to rural communities via low-power translators through the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS).
KTUU has been the top-rated station in the Anchorage market for decades; its ratings for their newscasts helped make them one of the strongest NBC affiliates in the country. The Channel 2 News team routinely wins regional and national awards and in 1999, became the first television station in Alaska with their own satellite uplink truck (NewsStar 2). The National Press Photographers Association named KTUU the Small Market Television News Photography Station of the Year in 2006, 2008 and 2010. In 2013, KTUU was also the first in Alaska to broadcast their news in high definition.
KTUU-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.
Sarah Palin former Alaska governor and U.S. vice presidential candidate was a fill-in sports anchor at the station.
Images for kids
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KENI-TV personnel and mushing officials pose for a photo while covering the World Championship Sled Dog Race during the 1958 Fur Rendezvous Festival in downtown Anchorage. From left, general manager Al Bramstedt, news anchor Ty Clark, cameraman Jim Balog, Bill Stewart and master of ceremonies Orville Lake.
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Megan Baldino, former reporter and anchor, waits to begin her report from Front Street in Nome during the 2007 Iditarod.
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KTUU's News Star truck parked alongside South Franklin Street in downtown Juneau, circa 2002.
See also
In Spanish: KTUU-TV para niños
