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channel 11), is an

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- affiliated

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, United States. The station is owned by Vision Alaska

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. KJUD's transmitter is located 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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KYUR KYUR, virtual channel 13 ( VHF digital channel 12), is a dual ABC/The CW Plus- affiliated television station licensed to Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The station is owned by Vision Alaska LLC; Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC, w ...

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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

KATN KATN, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 18), is an ABC/ Fox/ CW+- affiliated television station licensed to Fairbanks, Alaska, United States. Owned by Raleigh, North Carolina–based Vision Alaska LLC, the station is operated through a ti ...

. 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

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. At some unknown point, The CW and Fox swapped subchannels, with Fox moving to digital subchannel 8.2 and The CW moving to digital subchannel 8.3.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kjud 1956 establishments in Alaska ABC network affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1956

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