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A-8 Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Sunday, August 11. 1996STATION: CBS programming now on channel 13Continued from Pag® A-8programming offered by Fox with the more mature, established shows produced by CBS.Those included daytime soap opera staples like “Young and the Restless, and “As the World Turns,” which was substituted by the talk show “Geraldo Thursday morning, when CBS programming shifted to the new station onChannel 13.That change also garnered a number of calls from the soap’s fans, asking where to find the show, said Andrew Cassel, program assistant.“Usually people who like soaps don’t like talk shows and vice versa, Cassel said.The Alaskan Cable Network carriesthe new CBS station on Channel 8, which bumped VH-1, a music video station, to Channel 39. Alaskan Choice Television, a wireless cable service, will air the CBS programs on Channel 14 And Alaska Wireless Cable, another programing service in the Fairbanks area, will broadcast CBS programs aired onK13XD on its Channel 28.Tanana Valley Television is able to operate the two television stations, because the CBS affiliate station is considered a low-power license, Butler said, while the Fox affiliate station has a high-power classification. Although the CBS transmitter is only 100 watts, the tower is located on Skyline Drive, high enoughto make up for the low power, he said.The new station should reach asmany households as Channel 7, which is broadcast with a 1,000-watt transmitter from a tower just outside the office located off Van Horn in the low-lying river valley, Butler added.Particularly unusual is how Tanana Valley operates both broadcast stations out of the cramped, three-room office that has videotape boxes stacked in nearly every available corner.Inside the control room, one computer runs programming for both stations, using two sets of tape players and two control switches. Local commercials are entered into the computer and can be aired on both the Fox and CBS stations at the same time, Butler explained.Several television monitors sit on top of the electronic equipment racks in the tiny, stuffy control room. The operator can see the affiliate feeds from both networks at the same time. A list of scheduled programs and commercials scrolls on the computer screen, with each minute detailed.Broadcasting two different affiliates out of one control room is “very unique,” said Fran Eigendorff, CBS vice president of affiliate relations. “We don’t have this with any other affiliates.”She and another CBS representativewere on-hand to introduce the networkto Fairbanks during a reception Thursday evening, and to look over thebroadcast station Friday.Eigendorff s interest, as is Butler's, is eventually to establish a local news broadcast. “We will do what we can to make this the No. 1 station in the market,” she said.Right now, Hove at KTVF-Channel 11 enjoys that position, but he said he would enjoy some additional competition in news coverage KATN recently eliminated all local new reporter positions, and airs a statewide newscast produced in Anchorage“I certainly hope somebody does it,” Hove said. “I want someone else here— that’s what makes us better.”
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Fairbanks Daily News Miner
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Sun, Aug 11, 1996
Page 8
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