DMA 151: ANCHORAGE, AK
Questions Remain After GCI Sells KTVI
The future is uncertain for many employees of Anchorage CBS affiliate KTVA, after the television station’s owner, telecommunications company GCI, announced in late July that it’s getting out of the broadcast television business. GCI has sold most of KTVA’s assets to Gray Television, which already owns KTVA’s main local competitor, NBC affiliate KTUU, the top station in the market.
The FCC has approved the $1.12 billion purchase of Alaska’s GCI by John Malone’s Liberty Interactive. The FCC clearance removes the last major regulatory hurdle for the deal, which the Justice Department already signed off on in June.
