KDMD (TV)

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KDMD
Anchorage, Alaska
Channels	Analog: 33 (UHF) Digital: 32 (UHF)
Affiliations	ION Television HSN Telemundo
Owner	Ketchikan Television, LLC
First air date	October 1, 1989
Former affiliations	Pax TV, i
Transmitter Power	66 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital)
Height	300.2 m (analog) 39 m (digital)
Facility ID	25221
Transmitter Coordinates	61°20′8.9″N, 149°30′55.9″W (analog) 61°11′31.5″N, 149°54′8.5″W (digital)
Website	www.kdmd.tv

KDMD is an ION Television network affiliate (formerly known as Pax TV) in Anchorage, Alaska, operating on analog channel 33. The station is owned by Ketchikan Television.

Contents 1 History 2 Station Presentation 3 Digital television 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] History

The station debuted on the air on October 1, 1989 with a mix of religious, classic TV and infomercial programming before joining Pax TV (the original name for ION) in 1998. Today it airs ION Television and a variety of local programming. KDMD also carries Seattle Mariners baseball via the Mariners Television Network.

In June 2007, the station began broadcasting Telemundo on a digital subchannel, making it the first Spanish-language broadcast station in Alaska.

[edit] Station Presentation

Former PAX logo

KDMD's alternate ION logo

[edit] Digital television

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
33.1 / 32.1	KDMD (ION Television)
33.2 / 33.2	Telemundo

[edit] See also

• KDMD-LP

[edit] External links

• Station website (active, but has not been updated since 2003)
• Query the FCC's TV station database for KDMD
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KDMD-TV

v • d • e Broadcast television in the Anchorage market  (Nielsen DMA #150) KTUU 2 (NBC) - KTBY 4 (Fox) - KYES 5 (MNTV/Wealth TV on DT1) - KOAN-LP 6 (Ind)1 - KAKM 7 (PBS) - KTVA 11 (CBS) - KIMO 13 (ABC/The CW on DT2) - KDMD 33 (ION/HSN/Telemundo on DT2) - KCFT-LP 35 (FamilyNet) KACN 38 (Ind/White Springs TV) 1-- audio only; simulcast of KWMD 90.7 See also Broadcast television in the Alaska Bush, Fairbanks, and Juneau

v • d • e Other Television Stations in the state of Alaska KJNP 4 (TBN, Fairbanks) - KDMD 33 / KDMD-LP 32 (ION/HSN, Anchorage / Fairbanks) See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS stations in Alaska