KTBY
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KTBY, Fox 4, is a Fox
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 affiliated television station serving Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...

. The station is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, LLC.http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6476839.html

The station is broadcast on digital over-the-air channel 20, and on the local cable TV system, GCI. KTBY airs Fox programming and sports, courtroom shows and reruns of sitcoms. KTBY also airs a 1 hr. 9 p.m. newscast.

History

KTBY signed on the air on December 2, 1983 as a locally-owned independent before joining the then-fledgling Fox Network
Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox Network or simply Fox , is an American commercial broadcasting television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Launched on October 9, 1986, Fox was the highest-rated broadcast network in the...

 on its launch of October 9, 1986, and today is still one of the charter affiliates. It was the only Fox station in Alaska until 1992, when KFXF
KFXF
KFXF, channel 7, is the Fox affiliate in Fairbanks, Alaska. KFXF is owned by Tanana Valley Television, which also owns CBS affiliate K13XD. Its transmitter is located in Fairbanks.-History:...

 in Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks is a home rule city in and the borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska.Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state behind Anchorage...

 went on the air; in the late 1980s, it also became the first station in Alaska to broadcast 24 hours a day.

Until October 1, 2008, KTBY aired a 9:00 p.m. weeknight newscast produced by local CBS affiliate KTVA
KTVA
KTVA, channel 11, is a station in Anchorage, Alaska. The station is the only television station owned by the MediaNews Group newspaper chain until a reorganization plan forced MediaNews to move the station to Affiliated Media, a holding company....

. This production ceased when KTBY began its own news operation. Thus starting the brand new New Team of Fox news: Trill Gates, Kristen Doogan, and Ebony Williams.
In June, 2010, Coastal Television hired Scott Centers as General Manager to manage KTBY and under a shared services agreement, manage Vision Alaska I and Vision Alaska II. In September 2010, KTBY relocated it's master control operations to colocate with Vision Alaska I.

Current on-air staff

  • Megan Mazurick - 9PM Anchor
  • Natasha Sweatte - 10PM KYUR Anchor
  • Corinna Delgado - Reporter
  • Janessa Webb - 9PM Weather Anchor
  • John Thompson - Reporter
  • Mike Ford - Reporter
  • Russ Slaten - Reporter/Photographer
  • Kirsten Adams - Reporter

Station slogans

  • Channel 4, Alaska's Very Own (1983-1984)
  • Channel 4 Gives You More (1984-1986)
  • Fox 4 Does More (1986-1987)
  • Your Alaska Link (2010)

Digital television

The station currently has a single 720p high definition feed. Digital channels>
Channel
(PSIP)
Programming Freq
(MHz)
Video
PID
Audio
PID
4.1 KTBY 509 49 52

External links

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