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| Branding | KFXF 7 Fairbanks |
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First air date | July 2, 1996 (29 years ago) (1996-07-02) |
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Call sign meaning | Fox Fairbanks (former affiliation) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 72584 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 17.7 m (58 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 64°48′42.5″N147°42′4.2″W / 64.811806°N 147.701167°W /64.811806; -147.701167 |
| Translator(s) | KTVF-DT 11.2 Fairbanks |
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| Website | www |
KFXF-CD (channel 7) is alow-power,Class A television station inFairbanks, Alaska, United States. It airs a primary sports-themedindependent format and has a secondary affiliation withMyNetworkTV. Owned byGray Media, KFXF-CD is asister station toNBC affiliateKTVF (channel 11) and Class ACBS affiliateKXDF-CD (channel 13). The three stations share studios on Braddock Street in downtown Fairbanks, where KFXF-CD's transmitter is also located.
The KFXF-CD intellectual unit originated on April 20, 1992, when Tanana Valley Television Company signed on K07UU as the area's first commercial station (and fifth in general afterKJNP-TV in 1981) since 1955, whenKTVF andKATN started. The station upgraded to a full-power license and changed its call letters to KFXF on February 22, 1995.
From its inception, the station was primarily affiliated withFox. In its early years, K07UU/KFXF ran programming from Canadian music channelMuchMusic during the overnight hours, and for a time in 1993–94 carried theNBA on NBC. Until K13XD (now KXDF-CD) went on the air in August 1996, KFXF also carried some CBS shows. The station also ranUPN programs from 2000 to 2006, when that network merged withThe WB to formThe CW, which is shown on a digital subchannel of KATN.
After Gray Television's purchase of KTVF, KXDF-CD, and the non-license assets of KFXF on January 13, 2017, all of KFXF's programming was moved to KFXF-LD, which had previously served as a translator of KFXF. The full-power station's license (which was not included in the sale because the market has only five full-power stations, too few to create aduopoly) changed its call letters to KFYF on February 9, 2017[2] and was subsequently cancelled on March 10.[3]
On March 14, 1995, theFederal Communications Commission granted aconstruction permit for a new low-powered station in Fairbanks,[4] which received the K22EY call letters.[5] The station signed on 1996.[6]
In 2000, several low-powered stations owned by Goldbelt, Inc. (including K22EY) were sold to ACS Television, L.L.C.[7][8] ACS Television, a subsidiary ofAlaska Communications System, operated its stations as a wireless cable system; ACS put the subsidiary up for sale in 2002 due to financial losses and the costs of converting the stations todigital television.[9] On April 23, 2003, Tanana Valley Television Company acquired 10 stations (including K22EY) from ACS Television.[10][11] In 2010, the stationflash-cut from analog to digital,[12] modifying its call sign to K22EY-D.[5]
The call letters were changed to KFXF-LD on November 4, 2016.[5] On November 8, 2016, Northern Lights Media, the subsidiary ofGray Television that operates Anchorage stationsKTUU-TV andKYES-TV, announced that it would buy KTVF, KFXF-LD and KXDF-CD (then known as KXDD-CD) for $8 million in cash.[13] The sale was completed on January 13, 2017.[14][15]
Fox announced on October 30, 2017, that it would move its Fairbanks affiliation from KFXF-LD to a subchannel of KATN on November 4; KFXF then became aMyNetworkTV affiliate.[16][17] In a statement, Gray said that renewing the Fox affiliation "was not financially feasible."[18] For nearly two years after KFXF-LD's affiliation change, the station's schedule remained intact for all hours outside of the Fox lineup as meanwhile the MyNetworkTV schedule replaced the Fox prime time lineup. By October 2019, Gray replaced all syndicated programming on KFXF-LD outside of the MyNetworkTV schedule with the MeTV schedule, quietly continuing to air MyNetworkTV programming from 2 to 4 a.m. on Tuesdays through Saturdays.
As of November 2021, KFXF-LD moved to virtual channel 7, which was formerly used by the full power KFXF until 2017.
In addition to its own digital signal, KFXF-LD receives full-market over-the-air coverage via ahigh definitionsimulcast on KTVF's seconddigital subchannel (UHF channel 26.2 or virtual channel 11.2) from a transmitter on the Ester Dome.[19][20][21] The simulcast is most likely a direct compensation for how on March 2, 2017, Tanana Valley Television surrendered their license forKFYF (the original full-market over-the-air high definition distributor of the programming carried by KFXF-LD) back to the FCC,[22] which canceled it on March 10.[3]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 7.1 | 720p | 16:9 | KFXF-LD | Last Frontier SEN / MyNetworkTV |
| 7.2 | 480i | KXDF-CD | CBS (KXDF-CD) | |
| 7.3 | MeTV | MeTV |
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