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| Branding | KXDF Channel 13 |
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| KFXF-CD,KTVF | |
| History | |
First air date | August 7, 1996 (29 years ago) (1996-08-07) |
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Former channel numbers | Analog: 13 (VHF, 1996–2012) |
Call sign meaning | "KXD Fairbanks" (derived from former K13XD call sign) |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 64596 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 3kW |
| HAAT | 275.4 m (904 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 64°55′19″N147°43′4″W / 64.92194°N 147.71778°W /64.92194; -147.71778 |
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| Website | www |
KXDF-CD (channel 13) is alow-power,Class A television station inFairbanks, Alaska, United States, affiliated withCBS. It is owned byGray Media alongsideKFXF-CD (channel 7) andNBC affiliateKTVF (channel 11). The stations share studios on Braddock Street in downtown Fairbanks; KXDF-CD's transmitter is located northeast of the city on Cranberry Ridge.
KXDF-CD signed on the air on August 7, 1996, as K13XD, the area's sixth television station, four months after longtime CBS affiliateKTVF switched toNBC. It was owned by Tanana Valley Television Company alongside Fox affiliateKFXF. Before channel 13 signed on, select CBS programming had been seen on KFXF. The addition of K13XD meant that Fairbanks would finally have a station for each of the four main networks:KATN (ABC), KFXF (Fox), KTVF (NBC), and K13XD (CBS), along withKJNP-TV (TBN) andKUAC-TV (PBS).
In 2000, the station upgraded to aclass A license,[2] but retained its translator-style call sign; eventually the station branded with a contraction of its translator call as "KXD". In 2012, the stationflash-cut from analog to digital,[3] modifying its call sign to K13XD-D.[4] The call letters were changed to KXDD-CD on November 7, 2016, and to KXDF-CD on December 16, 2016.[4]
On November 8, 2016, Northern Lights Media, the subsidiary ofGray Television that operates Anchorage stationsKTUU-TV andKYES-TV, announced that it would buy KXDD-CD, KFXF-LD and KTVF for $8 million in cash;[5] the sale was completed on January 13, 2017.[6][7]
In addition to its own digital signal, KXDF-CD receives full-market over-the-air coverage via ahigh definitionsimulcast on KTVF's thirddigital subchannel (11.3) from a transmitter on the Ester Dome.[8][9][10] 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 distributor of the programming of KFXF-LD) back to the FCC,[11] which cancelled it on March 10.[12] Like KTVF does presently, KFYF had simulcast KXDF-CD on a subchannel.
Despite its ownership with KTVF, KXDF-CD continued to maintain a small-scalelocal news department separate from channel 11, airing two half-hour newscasts on weekdays at 5 and 11 p.m. Under its old ownership, the station's main news theme in the mid to late 2000s was the main menu theme to the 2000 video gameHitman: Codename 47.[13]
The station's local newscast ceased in November 2024. Moving forward, KXDF-CD and KTVF will air newscasts fromKTUU-TV.[14]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 13.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | K13XD-D | CBS |
| 13.2 | 480i | KTVF-SD | NBC (KTVF) |
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