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| Operator | Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, LLC(viaTBA) |
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First air date | March 1, 1955 (70 years ago) (1955-03-01) |
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Former channel numbers | Analog: 2 (VHF, 1955–2009) |
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Call sign meaning | Alaska Television Network |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 13813 |
| ERP | 16kW |
| HAAT | 230 m (755 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 64°55′17.4″N147°42′57.7″W / 64.921500°N 147.716028°W /64.921500; -147.716028 |
| Translator(s) | K13KU-D 13 (UHF)Delta Junction |
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| Website | www |
KATN (channel 2) is atelevision station inFairbanks, Alaska, United States, affiliated withABC,Fox, andThe CW Plus. Owned by Vision AlaskaLLC, the station is operated through atime brokerage agreement (TBA) by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, LLC.[3][4][5] KATN's studios are located in theLathrop Building on 2nd Avenue in downtown Fairbanks, and its transmitter is located on Cranberry Ridge northeast of the city.
KATN debuted on March 1, 1955, as KFAR-TV, and was Fairbanks' second television station afterKTVF. It became KTTU-TV (no relation to the present-daystation in Tucson, Arizona) on June 18, 1981, and KATN on August 18, 1984. It was the first television station in Fairbanks to broadcast incolor in 1967 (while KTVF was temporarily off the air due to a flood).
KFAR/KTTU was primarily anNBC station with ABC as the secondary network until 1985, when the owners of KIMO (nowKYUR) inAnchorage bought the station, changed the call letters (the ATN in KATN stood for "Alaska Television Network", a consortium of KATN, KIMO, andKJUD inJuneau), and made KATN the primary ABC affiliate. The station continued carrying NBC programs as a secondary affiliate until KTVF switched from CBS to NBC in 1996, in response to KATN's new ownership. Until the launch of KFXF in 1992, they were Fairbanks' only two commercial network stations.
In September 2006, KATN began to show programming fromThe CW (viaThe CW Plus) on its digital subchannel. The subchannel is called "Fairbanks CW" and uses the fictional call letters KWFA (the actual call letters of the subchannel are still KATN-DT3).
Smith Media sold KATN and the remainder of the "ABC Alaska's Superstation" system to Vision Alaska LLC in 2010.[6] When the sale was completed, on May 13, 2010,[7] Coastal Television Broadcasting Company, LLC entered into a time brokerage agreement with Vision Alaska to operate KATN and sister station KJUD.[3][4][5]
On October 30, 2017,Fox announced that it would move its Fairbanks affiliation fromKFXF-LD (channel 22) to a subchannel of KATN on November 4.[8]
In 2022, the station and its sisters outsourced their news programming toNews Hub, which had recently been acquired by Coastal Television, asYour Alaska Link News.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Video | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 2.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ABC | ABC |
| 2.2 | FOX | Fox | ||
| 2.3 | 480i | CW | The CW Plus | |
| 2.4 | ION | Ion | ||
| 2.5 | 4:3 | MYSTERY | Ion Mystery | |
| 2.6 | 16:9 | Grit | Grit | |
| 2.7 | CourtTV | Court TV | ||
| 2.8 | Dabl | Dabl |
KATN shut down its analog signal, overVHF channel 2, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transitionUHF channel 18,[10] usingvirtual channel 2.
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