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Juneau, AK (1980)

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Bluenoser

from 1980 Broadcasting Yearbook via www.worldradiohistory.com

2 KIRO-CBS Seattle (automated)
3 KOMO-ABC Seattle (automated)
5 Time/Weather (audio: KJNO-AM)
6 KINY-NBC Juneau
7 AP Newscable
9 Public & Educational Access/Want Ads
H2 HBO
H3 WTBS Atlanta
 
Bluenoser said:
That would be my best guess...some other systems in the state were listed as having Seattle programs on tape, though I'm not sure as to how much of a delay, or if the tapes were "bicycled" among systems...
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I didn't think of the "bicycling" system, but that would have made sense in the pre-satellite days. The Seattle affiliates wouldn't have made massive quantities of videotape to send to many different cable systems in Alaska and other far-flung areas (British Columbia, Yukon, NWT?). Also have to wonder if a similar arrangement existed for Los Angeles and Honolulu stations sending tapes to places such as American Samoa, Guam, and the Marianas.

I've had to wonder, along the same lines, whether the ARCS system in Alaska is kind of anachronistic, having a rotation of programming from various Anchorage stations on a single channel. Would it would be more feasible, now that digital subchannels exist, to feed the various ARCS translators direct from satellite and show all Anchorage network affiliates in tandem? They could easily squeeze 480i feeds of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, and possibly even CW onto a single station.
 
"Bicycling" was how Bangor's NBC and ABC stations were carried on Maritime cable systems until the mid 70s; the stations were picked up at Chamcook, NB (close to the border, near St. Stephen) and recorded, with tapes sent off to cablecos across the region.
 
IM42A said:
I've had to wonder, along the same lines, whether the ARCS system in Alaska is kind of anachronistic, having a rotation of programming from various Anchorage stations on a single channel. Would it would be more feasible, now that digital subchannels exist, to feed the various ARCS translators direct from satellite and show all Anchorage network affiliates in tandem? They could easily squeeze 480i feeds of ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, PBS, and possibly even CW onto a single station.
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They carry 4 stations on the translators
-1 ARCS
-2 PBS (Alaska One)
-3 FNX (First Nations Experience)
-4 360North (Gov't channel/PBS programs)

Now that Alaska Public Media (PBS/NPR in Alaska) owns the system they mainly want their stations on the system. The commercial station (ARCS) is mainly made up of programming from Gray TV's networks in Anchorage (CBS, NBC, My). They did carry NFL football from FOX on Thursdays. Sundays they carried the network that had the doubleheader + Sunday Night Football. ARCS use to publish a schedule weekly but since APM took over it just says what network it is. TitanTV use to have listings but now it just says "ARCS". A schedule from this fall that I had put together was such
M-F
5-9 NBC (Morning news & Today)
9-4 CBS (Deal, Price, Y&R, News, B&B, Talk, Phil, Ellen)
4-7 NBC (Judy, News)
7-10 Mainly NBC, some CBS, FOX on Thursdays for NFL. With NFL getting done at 7:30 local time then it was CBS. But prime time was the same network the whole night.
10-12:30 again either NBC or CBS depending on the night

Saturdays varied but mainly CBS during the day and NBC at night
Sundays is NFL all day (3 games) then CBS...remember NFL starts at 9am local time and is done by 7:30-8PM so there is 2+ hours of prime time left.

I've enclosed 2 schedules before and after the ownership change.
You'll see on the older schedule almost all the nets being listed (KTVA-CBS, KTUU-NBC, KYUR-ABC, KUAC-PBS, KTBY-FOX, KYES-MY)
The newer one (this is the last schedule they posted) its mainly NBC & CBS (which was moved to KYES) and one night of FOX. Again if FOX had the DH on Sunday for NFL it would have been shown.
 

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Bluenoser said:
"Bicycling" was how Bangor's NBC and ABC stations were carried on Maritime cable systems until the mid 70s; the stations were picked up at Chamcook, NB (close to the border, near St. Stephen) and recorded, with tapes sent off to cablecos across the region.
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I would have had no idea. I just assumed they were carried either by microwave or were received on ultra-high-gain cable TV head-end antennas (not sure what would be the outside range for such a signal reception, I know cable TV systems in Appalachia used to do some real "hat tricks" to get even a minimally acceptable signal from far-distant stations).
 
Mr Tony said:
They carry 4 stations on the translators
-1 ARCS
-2 PBS (Alaska One)
-3 FNX (First Nations Experience)
-4 360North (Gov't channel/PBS programs)

Now that Alaska Public Media (PBS/NPR in Alaska) owns the system they mainly want their stations on the system. The commercial station (ARCS) is mainly made up of programming from Gray TV's networks in Anchorage (CBS, NBC, My). They did carry NFL football from FOX on Thursdays. Sundays they carried the network that had the doubleheader + Sunday Night Football. ARCS use to publish a schedule weekly but since APM took over it just says what network it is. TitanTV use to have listings but now it just says "ARCS". A schedule from this fall that I had put together was such
M-F
5-9 NBC (Morning news & Today)
9-4 CBS (Deal, Price, Y&R, News, B&B, Talk, Phil, Ellen)
4-7 NBC (Judy, News)
7-10 Mainly NBC, some CBS, FOX on Thursdays for NFL. With NFL getting done at 7:30 local time then it was CBS. But prime time was the same network the whole night.
10-12:30 again either NBC or CBS depending on the night

Saturdays varied but mainly CBS during the day and NBC at night
Sundays is NFL all day (3 games) then CBS...remember NFL starts at 9am local time and is done by 7:30-8PM so there is 2+ hours of prime time left.

I've enclosed 2 schedules before and after the ownership change.
You'll see on the older schedule almost all the nets being listed (KTVA-CBS, KTUU-NBC, KYUR-ABC, KUAC-PBS, KTBY-FOX, KYES-MY)
The newer one (this is the last schedule they posted) its mainly NBC & CBS (which was moved to KYES) and one night of FOX. Again if FOX had the DH on Sunday for NFL it would have been shown.
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Thanks. I suppose that kind of ARCS Anchorage affiliate carriage is better than nothing at all.

It kind of reminds me of how some cable systems in Oregon used to carry a hodgepodge of Bay Area and Sacramento stations on a single shared channel, cutting in and out of various stations throughout the day. Those cable channels were listed in Oregon TV Guides simply as "(California)". I never lived there, I just saw this in the TV Guides.
 
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