The consolidation means there is now one company who owns both the NBC and Gray recently acquired KTVA’s assets from GCI. I get it, but I hate it. To the web staff, each one of those pageviews, likes, and follows felt like a single person – like we had worked our asses off to convince someone to trust us and our reporting. Update: Following the announcement on KTVA.com on April 18, 2012 that morning and weekend newscasts were being suspended immediately, KTVA removed the following news team bios from their website: Dave Stroh (anchor), Katie Paglini(anchor), Nicole Doughterty (weather), Janessa Webb (weather) and Christina Campell (weather).

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There’s no way to get that data back once it’s been deleted. Gray recently hired several of KTVA’s employees. A Montana native, she joined the CBS News team in November 2011 after having spent the past four years working at KEZI-TV in Eugene, Oregon. The consolidation means there is now one company who owns both the NBC and CBS affiliates in Anchorage. The Alaska Landmine is a owned and operated by Speedogate Media, a division of the Landfield Global Group. It would appear that KTVA/Denali Media/GCI didn’t know how to run a business – so who best to ask about the NEW company’s policy is a former member of a clearly failed company?
Meet the KTVB team. All that said, unbiased, legitimate medium- to small-sized journalism companies, like KTVA, that are in the pursuit of truth and improving their communities can easily be left behind.

We published maybe 10 stories a day in 2014 and when I left our staff was publishing almost 30 stories per day, mostly original content. Unless my memory has gone bad, didn’t “Alaska’s News Source” used to be the old, very old Ch. We had an amazing run. We read everything, even the racist garbage. Our web traffic went from just under 200,000 pageviews a month in January 2014 to almost 1.5 million a month in 2018 when I left. But now that KTUU has won their television news war that’s been raging in Anchorage over most of the last decade, just like the Anchorage Daily News won their wars against the Anchorage Times in the early 90’s, and more recently against the Alaska Dispatch News. That means the online archives went away.

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The station does not operate a sports department. Maybe not specifically with KTVA – but in general. I am disappointed to loose KTVA it was professional and upbeat. It was extremely depressing to see those get deleted; like watching years of work just flushed down the toilet. Big mistake. Advertisements. For information about purchasing ads, please click here. There’s no way to do this on Twitter, but why not just post a final tweet explaining that this account will no longer be updated? There is also the FOX/ABC affiliate, Your Alaska Link, owned by Coastal Television. Their YouTube account remains active for now. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.”—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915). The mainstream news organizations like KTVA, strive to appeal to a broad audience. It’s the classic Fox News play. When you go to www.ktva.com, it redirects to a page with Alaska’s News Source articles. When the Juneau Empire was sold a few years ago, the new company got the current website but didn’t include the archives in the deal. The Landmine is made possible by a team of Alaskans who work hard to deliver unique content you won’t find anywhere else. But, as others have noted, TV viewership took a nose dive right about the time GCI launched the new KTVA. Gray recently acquired KTVA's assets from GCI. There’s nothing left for them here. This means all of the KTVA web content for the last seven years is not accessible to the public. Sources confirm additional sales and engineering people were also hired by Gray. I reached out to Jason Sear, the former Online Content Manager for KTVA about this. For information about purchasing ads, please click here.

Here is a list of the 11 people who will be going to KTUU: Notable names not on the list include anchors Joe Vigil, Megan Mazurek, Liz Raines, and John Thompson.

Much smaller blogs and content aggregators, often with an agenda, have the advantage because their overhead is a fraction of a KTUU or ADN. Would we send an army into the field under a dollar-a-year General who had to be home Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays?”—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973), “Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth.

KTUU has also rebranded their website and social media as Alaska’s News Source. Local News and Information for Boise, Idaho and surrounding areas. It’s the same story – the addition and diversification of companies that provide news and information means the larger organizations just can’t survive the competition.

Their content has traditionally needed to be of general interest because they have to attract many eyeballs in order to earn the ad revenue to support their large staffs. There’s so much history in those social media accounts. COVID-19 UPDATES AND NEWS FOR VENTURA COUNTY. Gray Television, the parent company of KTUU, has hired at least 11 people from KTVA, according to several sources. When I started as the Online Content Manager in March of 2014, KTVA had just over 11,000 Facebook likes and about 5,000 Twitter followers. That would help produce many more great stories like the ones Hopkins has been firing off lately – good for journalism and good for our state. The downsizing of television news operations across the country is happening, just like newspapers did starting about 20 years ago. On the day the accounts were shut down, KTVA had about 148,000 Facebook likes and just over 39,000 Twitter followers.

Audiences want to see how the sausage is made. KTUU has also rebranded their website and social media as Alaska’s News Source. Websites aren’t typically just deleted. However, deleting the social media accounts is a real loss for the audience, the staff of KTVA, and especially for the past employees of the digital team over the last seven years. That publisher serves up content to the conservative masses giving them what they want to hear. Why you would pull this team and place the same news team on two separate channels is beyond me. Oh, and viewers should know something… I guarantee with 100% assurance that one of us read your comment, tweet, or Facebook comment.

For information about purchasing ads, please click here. 13 logo? It’s kind of a “we know best” policy from a corporate office in another location. Thank you for reading! And they want important stories told and exposed. If Alaskans cared more for the work they produced, they’d still be here making our community stronger.