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KFXF-LD (channel 7) is a low-power
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in
Fairbanks, Alaska Fairbanks is a Municipal home rule, home rule city and the county seat, borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior Alaska, interior region of Alaska and the second la ...
, United States, as an affiliate of
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and
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. Owned by
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, it is a
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to
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affiliate
KTVF KTVF (channel 11) is a television station in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside two low-power stations: primary MeTV and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate KFXF-LD (channel 22) and Class A ...
(channel 11) and Class A
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KXDF-CD KXDF-CD (channel 13) is a low-power, Class A television station in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Media alongside NBC affiliate KTVF (channel 11) and primary MeTV and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate ...
(channel 13). The three stations share studios on Braddock Street in downtown Fairbanks, where KFXF-LD's transmitter is also located.


History


KFXF intellectual unit

The KFXF-LD intellectual unit originated on April 20, 1992, when Tanana Valley Television Company signed on K07UU as the area's first commercial station (and fifth in general after KJNP-TV in 1981) since 1955, when
KTVF KTVF (channel 11) is a television station in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside two low-power stations: primary MeTV and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate KFXF-LD (channel 22) and Class A ...
and
KATN KATN (channel 2) is a television station in Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC, Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox, and The CW Plus. Owned by Vision Alaska Limited liability company, LLC, the station ...
started. The station upgraded to a full-power license and changed its call letters to KFXF on February 22, 1995. From its inception, the station was primarily affiliated with
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. In its early years, K07UU/KFXF ran programming from Canadian music channel
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during the overnight hours, and for a time in 1993–94 carried the ''
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''. Until K13XD (now KXDF-CD) went on the air in August 1996, KFXF also carried some CBS shows. The station also ran
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programs from 2000 to 2006, when that network merged with
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to form
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, which is shown on a digital subchannel of KATN. After Gray Television's purchase of KTVF, KXDF-CD, and the non-license assets of KFXF on January 13, 2017, all of KFXF's programming was moved to KFXF-LD, which had previously served as a translator of KFXF. The full-power station's license (which was not included in the sale because the market has only five full-power stations, too few to create a
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) changed its call letters to KFYF on February 9, 2017 and was subsequently cancelled on March 10.Station Search Details - Federal Communications Commission
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License

On March 14, 1995, the
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granted a
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for a new low-powered station in Fairbanks, which received the K22EY call letters.Call Sign History - Federal Communications Commission
/ref> The station signed on 1996. In 2000, several low-powered stations owned by Goldbelt, Inc. (including K22EY) were sold to ACS Television, L.L.C. ACS Television, a subsidiary of Alaska Communications System, operated its stations as a wireless cable system; ACS put the subsidiary up for sale in 2002 due to financial losses and the costs of converting the stations to
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. On April 23, 2003, Tanana Valley Television Company acquired 10 stations (including K22EY) from ACS Television. In 2010, the station
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from analog to digital, modifying its call sign to K22EY-D. The call letters were changed to KFXF-LD on November 4, 2016. On November 8, 2016, Northern Lights Media, the subsidiary of
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that operates Anchorage stations
KTUU-TV KTUU-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, affiliated with NBC and CBS. It is owned by Gray Media alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KAUU (channel 5). The two stations share studios on East 40th Avenue in midt ...
and KYES-TV, announced that it would buy KTVF, KFXF-LD and KXDF-CD (then known as KXDD-CD) for $8 million in cash. The sale was completed on January 13, 2017. Fox announced on October 30, 2017 that it would move its Fairbanks affiliation from KFXF-LD to a subchannel of KATN on November 4; KFXF then became a
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affiliate. In a statement, Gray said that renewing the Fox affiliation "was not financially feasible." For nearly two years after KFXF-LD's affiliation change, the station's schedule remained intact for all hours outside of the Fox lineup as meanwhile the MyNetworkTV schedule replaced the Fox prime time lineup. By October 2019, Gray replaced all syndicated programming on KFXF-LD outside of the MyNetworkTV schedule with the MeTV schedule, quietly continuing to air MyNetworkTV programming between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays. As of November 2021, KFXF-LD moved to virtual channel 7, which was formerly used by the full power KFXF until 2017.


Full-market over-the-air coverage

In addition to its own digital signal, KFXF-LD receives full-market over-the-air coverage via a high definition
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on KTVF's second
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(UHF channel 26.2 or virtual channel 11.2) from a transmitter on the Ester Dome.RabbitEars TV Query for KXDF-CD
/ref> The simulcast is most likely a direct compensation for how on March 2, 2017, Tanana Valley Television surrendered their license for KFYF (the original full-market over-the-air high definition distributor of the programming carried by KFXF-LD) back to the FCC, which canceled it on March 10.


Subchannels

The station's signal is
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References


External links


Official website
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