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'''KATV''' ("Ketchikan Alaska Television") was a cable television service in [[Ketchikan, Alaska]], United States. It was established in November 1953 and was the first television service of any kind in Alaska.<ref name="kiffer">{{cite web|url=http://www.sitnews.us/Kiffer/katv/121413_cable_tv.html|work=Stories in the News|title=Cable TV came to Ketchikan 60 years ago|first=Dave|last=Kiffer|date=December 14, 2013|access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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R. D. "Chuck" Jensen and Wally Christiansen started KATV in 1953 with the goal of bringing television to Ketchikan, then a town of about 5,000 people.{{r|kiffer}} At the time the system was announced in July, Alaska had no broadcast television stations, and it was not expected that there would be one before the end of the year; consequently, KATV announced its programming would consist of films and kinescopes supplied from the mainland.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1953/BC-1953-07-13.pdf|date=July 13, 1953|work=Broadcasting|page=38|title=Community TV Planned in Alaska}}</ref> Leasing space on power poles from the local public utilities board, the first pictures from the system went out on November 17, 1953.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1954/1954-02-08-BC.pdf|date=February 8, 1954|page=34|title=Progress in Ketchikan|work=Broadcasting}}</ref> In large part thanks to a slew of technical difficulties at [[KTUU-TV|KFIA]] (channel 2), one of two television stations under construction at [[Anchorage, Alaska|Anchorage]], this made KATV Alaska's first television station; Anchorage's first two stations, KFIA and [[KTVA]] (channel 11), started days apart in December.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Reamer |first=David |date=October 24, 2021 |title=In the 1950s, the race to bring television to Alaska was marked by anticipation, suspense and mishaps |language=en |work=Anchorage Daily News |url=https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2021/10/24/in-the-1950s-the-race-to-bring-television-to-alaska-was-marked-by-anticipation-suspense-and-mishaps/ |access-date=December 20, 2021}}</ref> All of the equipment used at KATV was handmade by Jensen and Christiansen in Ketchikan, except for a camera used for locally produced programs.{{r|kiffer}} |
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Business was slow in the early years due to the novelty of the venture to viewers and owners alike. For much of the first decade, KATV continued to provide mostly filmed programs shipped from [[Seattle]]—entertainment shows on a two-week delay, national news programs on a one-week delay—as well as local shows, including news, a local talent show, and televised bingo.{{r|kiffer}} Live programs from [[Outside (Alaska)|Outside]] came to Ketchikan in 1967 after a translator association was created to receive and rebroadcast programming from television transmitters in [[Prince Rupert, British Columbia]], and by 1978, the cable service offered 10 channels with a large portion of live programming.{{r|kiffer}} |
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In 1980, Jensen and Christiansen sold KATV and [[KSA-TV]], a smaller service set up along the same lines at [[Sitka, Alaska|Sitka]] in 1959, to [[McCaw Cellular Communications|McCaw Cable]] in 1980. |
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<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> |
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==References== |
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{{Reflist}} |
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{{Juneau TV}} |
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{{Other Alaska Stations}} |
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[[Category:Defunct mass media in Alaska|ATV]] |
[[Category:Defunct mass media in Alaska|ATV]] |
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