KYUR
ABC/CW television affiliate in Anchorage, Alaska, United States
KYUR (channel 13) is a television station in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, affiliated with ABC and The CW Plus. It is owned by Vision Alaska LLC and operated by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC alongside Fox affiliate KTBY (channel 4). The two stations share studios on East Tudor Road in Anchorage; KYUR's transmitter is located in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. KYUR and KTBY, alongside KATN in Fairbanks and KJUD in Juneau, provide ABC, Fox, and CW programming throughout Alaska.
Channel 13 went on the air on October 31, 1967, as KHAR-TV, the third TV station in Anchorage. It was owned alongside radio station KHAR by Bill Harpel, who died three months later. As an independent station without network affiliation and reliant on movies, KHAR-TV struggled, and it left the air in May 1970. It signed back on four months later after Central Alaska Broadcasting agreed to buy the station. After the sale closed in 1971, the call sign changed to KIMO, and a federal rule change spurred ABC to affiliate with channel 13. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, KIMO enjoyed a run as the leading news station in Anchorage and was credited with raising the quality of television newscasting in the local market.
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