KXLJ-LD,
virtual and
UHF
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channel 24, was a
low-powered CBS-
affiliated television station that was
licensed to
Juneau, Alaska
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, United States. It was a full-time
satellite of
Sitka
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-licensed
KTNL-TV (channel 13) which was owned by
Denali Media Holdings (a subsidiary of local
cable provider
GCI). KXLJ-LD was a
sister station
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Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and somet ...
to low-powered
NBC affiliate
KATH-LD (channel 5), licensed to both Juneau and
Douglas
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. KXLJ-LD shared transmitter facilities with KATH-LD in downtown Juneau.
History
The station was not granted its original
construction permit
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until October 4, 2005; however, it originally launched under a series of
special temporary authority
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(STA) grants starting in 2001, the most recent one granted on April 4, 2008.
These special temporary authority grants were for analog operation; however, in 2008, the station filed for a
flash-cut
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to digital television,
even though channel 24, as a
low-power station, was exempt from the
2009 digital transition for full-service stations.
Channel 24 went on the air in March 2002 as an affiliate of Pax (now
Ion Television); that August, it joined CBS, though some Pax programming remained on the schedule for some time thereafter. Before then,
KUBD in
Ketchikan and
KTNL in
Sitka
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served as the default over-the-air CBS affiliates for
Southeast Alaska
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, while cable systems in Juneau imported
KIRO-TV
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from
Seattle for CBS programming instead.
In early 2003, the station added simulcasts of the newscasts from fellow CBS affiliate
KTVA in
Anchorage
Anchorage () is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska by population. With a population of 291,247 in 2020, it contains nearly 40% of the state's population. The Anchorage metropolitan area, which includes Anchorage and the neighboring Ma ...
.
Though channel 24 referred to itself as "KTNL-LP" (matching the Sitka station),
it was originally issued the temporary call sign K24FM;
following the grant of the construction permit, the call sign K24HB was issued on October 12, 2005.
The call letters were changed to KXLJ-LP on July 5, 2007, and were modified to KXLJ-LD (reflecting its conversion to digital) on October 6, 2008.
KXLJ-LD's construction permit was canceled on March 15, 2010 after the
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) determined, while processing the station's application for a digital license, that the permit had expired on October 12, 2008.
As a result, the station's owner, Ketchikan Television LLC, had to reapply for the channel 24 position in Juneau. On February 24, 2010, KXLJ-LD received special temporary authority from the FCC to return to the air,
which was extended on August 18, 2010.
The station was given the temporary call sign K24JH-D upon receiving the special temporary authority grant;
after the new construction permit was granted on June 15, 2011, channel 24 was assigned the K24KH-D call sign, before regaining the KXLJ-LD call sign on July 6.
The low-power station was again licensed on July 19, 2011.
Since returning to the air, KXLJ-LD has transmitted a digital signal.
On December 9, 2013, Ketchikan Television filed to sell KXLJ-LD, along with KTNL and KUBD, to Denali Media Holdings, a subsidiary of local cable provider
GCI. The deal made them sister stations to
NBC affiliate
KATH-LD in Juneau and its satellite KSCT-LP in Sitka, as well as KTVA.
The sale was completed on July 28, 2014.
On September 28, 2021, Denali Media surrendered the license of KXLJ-LD back to the FCC. Juneau-based repeater station, KYEX-LD (relaying
Gray-owned
Anchorage
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-based
KAUU) now serves the former viewing area of KXLJ-LD as a dual
CBS/
MyNetworkTV-
affiliated television station.
Digital television
Digital channel
References
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