KJUD (channel 8) is a

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, United States, affiliated with ABC,

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, and Fox. Owned by Vision Alaska

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, the station maintains a transmitter along Douglas Highway in West Juneau.

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and some internal operations are based at the facilities of fellow ABC affiliate and Your Alaska Link

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History

KINY-TV, Juneau's first television station, signed on the air on February 19, 1956, 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,

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, and

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for many years. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the

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. In 1995, the station became a part of the Alaska Superstation network, with KIMO (now

) and

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. In September 2006, KJUD began to show programming from

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on its digital subchannel. The subchannel was initially known as Juneau CW, but has since been rebranded to Alaska CW.

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sold KJUD and the remainder of the "ABC Alaska's Superstation" system to Vision Alaska LLC in 2010. 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.Fox Inks Affiliate in Juneau
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'', June 1, 2011. 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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kjud 1956 establishments in Alaska American Broadcasting Company affiliates Coastal Television The CW affiliates Fox Broadcasting Company affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Ion Television affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1956 JUD Vision Alaska