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-{{short description|Cable TV station in Sitka, Alaska, United States}}
-'''KSA-TV''', broadcasting on [[cable television|cable]] systems on channel 4, was an [[NBC]]-[[Network affiliate|affiliated]] [[television station]] located in [[Sitka, Alaska]], United States. It was the first local television station in Sitka, operating between 1959 and 1983. It was also an affiliate of the [[NTA Film Network]].<ref name="DSS19600518">{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-may-18-1960-2087365/|work=Daily Sitka Sentinel|page=4|title=KSA-TV Channel 4|date=May 18, 1960|accessdate=November 26, 2020|via=NewspaperArchive}}</ref><ref name="DSS1961i">{{cite news|work=Daily Sitka Sentinel'|page=4|date=October 17, 1961|title=KSA-TV Channel 4|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-oct-17-1961-2087366/|accessdate=November 26, 2020|via=NewspaperArchive}}</ref><ref name="letter">{{cite web |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/64057840/ |title=Letter to the Editor|work=Daily Sitka Sentinel|page=2 |date=November 6, 1981|accessdate=November 26, 2020|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
-==History==
-KSA-TV launched on November 15, 1959 at 6 p.m., as the first television station of any kind in Sitka. It was owned by a company known as Sitka Alaska TeleVision; the majority shareholder, Ketchikan Alaska TeleVision, operated the similar "[[KATV (Alaska)|KATV]]" in [[Ketchikan, Alaska|Ketchikan]], which had gone on the air before any broadcast stations in [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]], [[Fairbanks, Alaska|Fairbanks]], or [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-nov-13-1959-2087293/|work=Daily Sitka Sentinel|pages=1, [https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-nov-13-1959-2087296/ 4]|title=KSA-TV begins operations Sunday, open house Sat.|first=Ernestine C.|last=Veatch|date=November 13, 1959|via=NewspaperArchive|accessdate=November 26, 2020}}</ref>
-KSA-TV continued to broadcast into the early 1980s. In 1980, [[McCaw Cellular Communications|McCaw Cable]] acquired the Sitka cable system and KSA-TV.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-nov-17-1983-2087304/|first=Susan|last=Froetschel|via=NewspaperArchive|accessdate=November 26, 2020|work=Daily Sitka Sentinel|date=November 17, 1983|pages=1, 2|title=Sitka Cable TV Looks for Ideas From Residents}}</ref> NBC programs remained on channel 4, though the KSA-TV moniker was abandoned. The station carried radically different programming in daytime hours due to duplication between [[CBS]] affiliate [[KTNL-TV|KIFW-TV]] (channel 13), KSA-TV and the [[Alaska Rural Communications Service|Alaska Satellite Television Project]].{{r|letter}}
-In 1983, McCaw consolidated its channels of delayed NBC and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] programming into one service, dubbed "Northstar".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-aug-23-1983-2087393/|date=August 23, 1983|work=Daily Sitka Sentinel|via=NewspaperArchive|accessdate=November 26, 2020|title=Sitka TV Station Announces Changes|page=4}}</ref> In 1986, McCaw began live delivery of NBC and ABC programming utilizing the [[CANCOM]] feeds of Detroit stations, replacing the taped Northstar service.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-jan-30-1986-2087376/|date=January 31, 1986|title=McCaw Cablevision Adds Five Programming Services to Lineup|work=Daily Sitka Sentinel|page=4A|accessdate=November 26, 2020|via=NewspaperArchive}}</ref>
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-{{Juneau TV}}
-{{Other Alaska Stations}}
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