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Questions remain after GCI sells television assets KTVA to competitor

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The future is uncertain for many employees of Anchorage CBS affiliate KTVA, after the television station’s owner, telecommunications company GCI, announced in late July that it’s getting out of the broadcast television business.

GCI has sold most of KTVA’s assets to Atlanta-based Gray Television, which already owns KTVA’s main local competitor, NBC affiliate KTUU, the top station in the market.

Having one company own the first- and second-ranked stations in the same market is allowed under a special exception by the Federal Communications Commission with approval, after GCI was unable to find another buyer. GCI is also selling its CBS stations in Juneau, Sitka and Ketchikan to Gray.

The deal comes just seven years after GCI bought KTVA, spent tens of millions of dollars to compete with KTUU, and made only slight gains in viewership.
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https://www.alaskapublic.org/2020/0...er-gci-sells-television-assets-to-competitor/

This affects KTVA-TV
 
The remains of the once-great KTVA are for sale for just $1.85 million - see radiotvdeals.com . Sadly not much there left - goodwill destroyed, network affiliation gone, off-air, etc.. The FCC granted on 4/29/2021 an extension for their Silent STA

Per the owner's filing:

Request to Extend Silent STA -

The licensee respectfully requests further extension of silent special temporary authority
most recently granted in LMS File No. 0000121181. The station has been silent since September
3, 2020, due to the sale and conveyance of certain programming and related assets to a third
party, including the station’s affiliation and programming agreements. The sale also created a
substantial reduction in station personnel. No new source to provide programming has been
identified at this time. The licensee is cognizant that a six-month extension would surpass the
one year anniversary of silence, and therefore respectfully requests a further extension of silent
STA until the one year of silence anniversary (September 3, 2021). This additional time will
allow the licensee to determine a long-term plan for the station


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