KSA-TV, broadcasting on
cable systems on channel 4, was an
NBC-
affiliated
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television station located in
Sitka, Alaska
russian: Ситка
, native_name_lang = tli
, settlement_type = Consolidated city-borough
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, image_caption = Downtown Sitka in 1984
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, United States. It was the first local television station in Sitka, operating between 1959 and 1983. It was also an affiliate of the
NTA Film Network.
History
KSA-TV launched on November 15, 1959, at 6 p.m., as the first television station of any kind in Sitka. It was owned by a company known as Sitka Alaska TeleVision; the majority shareholder, Ketchikan Alaska TeleVision, operated the similar "
KATV" in
Ketchikan, which had gone on the air before any broadcast stations in
Anchorage
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,
Fairbanks
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, or
Juneau.
KSA-TV continued to broadcast into the early 1980s. In 1980,
McCaw Cable acquired the Sitka cable system and KSA-TV. NBC programs remained on channel 4, though the KSA-TV moniker was abandoned. The station carried radically different programming in daytime hours due to duplication between
CBS affiliate
KIFW-TV (channel 13), KSA-TV and the
Alaska Satellite Television Project.
In 1983, McCaw consolidated its channels of delayed NBC and
ABC programming into one service, dubbed "Northstar". In 1986, McCaw began live delivery of
WDIV-TV (NBC) and
WXYZ-TV (ABC) programming utilizing the
CANCOM feeds of
Detroit stations, replacing the taped Northstar service.
References
Sitka, Alaska
SA-TV
SA-TV
Defunct television stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1983
1983 disestablishments in Alaska
Television channels and stations established in 1959
1959 establishments in Alaska
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
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