 | This article needs to be updated. (November 2022) |
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| Channels | |
| Branding | Alaska's Real Country |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | Independent |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Iglesia Pentecostal Vispera del Fin |
| History | |
| Founded | July 1999 |
Former call signs |
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Former channel number(s) | Analog: 6 (VHF, 1999–2023) |
Call sign meaning | Knik River |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 21492 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 920 watts |
| HAAT | 155.6 m (510 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 61°4′0″N 149°44′44″W / 61.06667°N 149.74556°W |
| Translator(s) | K253CA (98.5 FM, Eagle River) |
| Links | |
Public license information | LMS |
| Radio station information | |
| Frequency | 87.7 MHz |
| Programming | |
| Format | Silent |
KNIK-LD (channel 6) is a low-power television station in Anchorage, Alaska, United States, which is currently silent. The station was one of very few low-power television stations that operated predominantly as a radio station by way of the fact that many FM radio receivers can tune in a VHF channel 6 television audio carrier at 87.75 MHz. This technique is made more potent due to a formerly unforeseen interpretation of deregulatory language in FCC low-power television station regulations:
Sec. 73.653 Operation of TV aural and visual transmitters.
The aural and visual transmitters may be operated independently of each other or, if operated simultaneously, may be used with different and unrelated program material.
This means that KNIK-LD need not broadcast any particular image so long as it broadcasts a video signal and that the audio and video need not be technically synchronized.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for KNIK-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.