KTVF Channel 11 and KXDF Chanel 13 in Fairbanks signed off on Saturday for the last time. Gray Communications of Altanta, the parent company of the stations, has canceled the local news broadcast.
KTVF and webcenterfairbanks.com now is folded into the Alaska’s News Source in Anchorage, and visitors to that website are redirected.
Gray Television acquired KTVF (NBC), KXDD (CBS) and KFXF (FOX) from Tanana Valley Television Company and Chena Broadcasting, LLC in 2016 for $8 million.
Watch as the Fairbanks newsroom staff each say goodbye for the last time at this YouTube link or below:
Surely, and sadly, more to follow, I fear.
State’s shrinking, get used to it.
It is sad to see local news fading away. It’s the start of a new era. We all need to find alternative news sources that are trustworthy. Fortunately there are ‘new media’ sources available such as Must Read Alaska and Alaska Watchman. These two sites have a better following than ADN. Many communities have Facebook sites that operate as neighborhood watch type functions. There are other possibilities available too. There are lots of sites for quality national news. Citizen Free Press is a great news aggregate site that is updated continuously with the hottest news. CNN, ABC, MSNBC etc are dying because they offer narrative driven news that usually turn out inaccurate.Their record during the election season was abysmal. With these ‘new media’ possibilities it will be up to us to be more analytical and make up our own minds. But it will much more satisfying.
We’ve needed alternative news sources since Obama’s ‘son’ got lit up by the Z-Man. That’s it became obvious they lie to us with impunity.
Gray Television has turned broadcast journalism in Anchorage into a embarassing joke. Alaska’s News Source is little more than a mouthpiece for the lefty-leaning corporate word – think Anchorage Daily News – in Anchorage.
Too bad. The community should come up with a plan to keep the local station going. They do have that power if they so choose. This is a project I think the locals would get behind and support. Just saying.
Go Fund ME seems to work Great for other things could try that
To be successful, the first step would be for them to stop lying and repeating lies from their legacy network puppetmasters.
Sad
Controlled by leftest in Georgia . Isn’t that nice . Now we get Anchorage’s rotten political views on Fbks news .
It’ll make it a lot easier now to get their lies and rotten massages out .
Newsminer has been owned for years by some lefty outfit in SF . Not even good firestart anymore !
They’re just local mouthpieces for their national network Propapaganda Corps puppetmasters retelling lies. There are much better sources for weather.
So, in the immortal words of Curly Bill, “Well…………bye.”
So now the indoctrination of Fairbanks begins.
Stand by Fairbanks, you’ll regret thus
Lol……..The indoctrination started long ago. And it’s not just Fairbanks.
Six billionaires…… with ‘B’…… own the majority of corporate media around the world.
So now the indoctrination of Fairbanks begins.
Stand by Fairbanks, you’ll regret this
So, are you saying that Channel 11 was conservative?
Keeping fairbanks in the dark ! So sad I don’t want to hear about anchorage I don’t live their!!!!
It’s a tragedy really, as now all we have is communist propaganda from the United States.
This really sucks! I don’t turn on “LOCAL” news to get shit out of Anchorage! When I want to know what’s going on in FAIRBANKS, I don’t want some fool in Anchorage telling me about events in ANCHORAGE! It’s ridiculous that the second largest city in Alaska doesn’t have a single TV Station in town that gives me LOCAL news!
Whose bright idea was it to do away with local FAIRBANKS news? We live in Fairbanks and have had (in the past) great information from JR Lewis regarding the city we live in. This new concept of being deluged with Anchorage news is ridiculous. We don’t live in Anchorage! I want to know what is going on in our own town. If this remains, I will no longer be watching “local” news. (Nice going …. great way to loose viewers!) I will be reverting to newspapers for local information.
Fairbanks generates news?
Not through the Newsminus, aka as the Snooooozeminer. Another Democrat cheerleading rag that is quite frankly, a joke. A printed dogwhistle for left wing lunatics who still think that lesbians should be in charge of public schools and UAF; and electric cars are the wave of the future at 40 below. Old hippy derelicts still wearing their white, shrinking ponytails and muttering nonsensical verbage about life in the Interior. Living in the 60’s, with their pot, poetry and smokin wood stoves.
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