KYUR

[edit] History
KIMO, the flagship station, signed on the air on October 31, 1967, and its call letters were originally KHAR-TV. It was the third television station in Anchorage, after KTVA and KTUU. The station was launched by Willis R. "Bill" Harpel, who operated the station under the corporate name Sourdough Broadcasters Inc. Shortly after the station's launch, Bill Harpel died in a snowmachining accident. His widow, Patricia, took over the reins at a time when the station's very future was in doubt due to its inability at the time to obtain a network affiliation.

At first the station was an independent, but obtained an affiliation with NBC in 1970. Patricia Harpel became sole owner of Sourdough Broadcasters at around the same time. It switched to ABC in 1971, the same year the KIMO call letters were adopted. In 1972, KIMO opened its own taping facility in Seattle so it could tape ABC shows directly off the network feed without having to use Hawaii as a middleman. The station brought Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and some other PBS programs to Anchorage in the early 1970s.

The station once had the top local newscasts in Anchorage from 1977 until 1986, when they were surpassed by KTUU.

"Alaska's Superstation" was created in 1995.

Smith Media sold KIMO and the remainder of the "ABC Alaska's Superstation" system to Vision Alaska LLC in 2010.[1] Scott Centers, General Manager of Coastal Television was brought in June 2010 to manage KIMO under a shared services agreement with Vision Alaska 1,LLC.

Its transmitter is located in Knik, Alaska.

[edit] Digital television
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

[edit] Former on-air staff

 * Maria Downey briefly worked as a news reporter before joining KTUU in 1985.
 * Herb Shaindlin (1930-2008) was the station's first news director. He once remarked that in the early days in this position, he mostly shot news footage with an 8mm camera. He would later become the station's news commentator, and spent several decades hosting various talk shows on KFQD. He was inducted into the Alaska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 1998.[2]
 * Kathy Tebow Sharp, weather anchor (1980s), Miss Alaska in 1976.
 * Cindy Suryan, a native of Kodiak, preceded Sharp as Miss Alaska. She joined the station as anchor not long after, and remained at the station for almost a decade.
 * John Vallentine joined the station as news anchor in the 1970s. He had previously been a news anchor in Milwaukee and Phoenix. The Valentine-Suryan team anchored what was the top-rated newscast during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
 * Trill Gates Former kid's personality "Kitty Fox" well known through out the state for years as a kid's program on KTBY titled Fox4Kids was appointed interium news director in July 2010.

[edit] Newscast titles

 * KIMO Evening News (1970s)
 * Action News 13 (1970s-early 1980s)
 * Alaska Statewide News (1980s-early 1990s, 1999-2001)
 * KIMO News 13/KIMO 13 News (1980s-1996)
 * Newslink Alaska (1996-1999)
 * ABC Alaska News (2001-2010)
 * Your Alaska Link" 2010-Present

Station slogans
This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.==References==
 * KHAR-TV Channel 13 in Color (1967-early 1970s)
 * Channel 13 is Alaska's Choice (early 1970s)
 * Alaska's Most Complete and Comprehensive Coverage of News, Weather and Sports (mid 1970s)
 * Action News 13: Where the Action Is (late 1970s)
 * We're Still the One, on Channel 13 (1979-1980; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * You and Me and Channel 13 (1980-1981; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * Now is the Time, Channel 13 is the Place (1981-1982; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * Come on Along to Channel 13 (1982-1983; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * That Special Feeling on Channel 13 (1983-1984; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * We're With You on Channel 13 (1984-1985; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * You'll Love It on Channel 13 (1985-1986; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * Together on Channel 13 (1986-1987; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * Something's Happening on Channel 13 (1987-1990; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * Alaska's Watching Channel 13 (1990-1992; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * If It's Channel 13, It Must Be ABC (1992-1993; localized version of ABC ad campaign)
 * Where The News Comes First (1993-1995)
 * Alaska's Superstation (1995-present; general slogan)
 * A Difference You Can Trust (1995-2007; news slogan)
 * To the Point (2007-present; news slogan)
 * 1) ^ "Alaska TV group sold". Television Business Report. January 15, 2010. http://www.rbr.com/tv-cable/tv_deals/20080.html. Retrieved January 16, 2010.