Alaska Rural Communications Service

Alaska Rural Communications Service
Statewide Alaska, outside Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau United States
Branding	ARCS
Channels	Analog: various, see below
Affiliations	various
Owner	Alaska Public Broadcasting (transmitters owned by the State of Alaska)
Website	www.arcstv.org

The Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS) is a statewide network of low-powered television stations, serving 235 communities throughout the Alaskan Bush areas. The network is based in Anchorage, Alaska and is operated by Alaska Public Broadcasting, a joint venture of Alaska Public Media and Alaska's public broadcasters. Programming is beamed via satellite to the rural transmitters owned by the Alaska state government.

Programming on ARCS is a selection of programming from five commercial broadcast networks (NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox, MyNetworkTV) and syndication, via the Anchorage stations; plus PBS programming from KAKM and other PBS members in the state; occasionally, ARCS generates some of its own programming (including local sports coverage). Anchorage stations provide their programming to ARCS free of charge with the condition that advertising is allowed to remain. There is currently no CW programming available on ARCS.

Even though much of ARCS's programming contains commercials, the operation of ARCS is partially funded by donations from its viewers, just like member stations of PBS.

List of stations

ARCS is seen on the following low-powered television stations:

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Inactive stations

K04KS Barrow
K11NN Barrow

External links

Official website

Broadcast television in The Alaskan Bush Stations in areas that are outside of the three major centers (Anchorage, Juneau, Fairbanks) in Alaska

Local stations	ARCS (regionwide) K06OR-D (AMGTV, Seward) KUCB 8¹ (PBS, Unalaska) KMXT-LP 9 (PBS, Kodiak) KUBD-LP 11 (CBS/ION, Kodiak) KYUK-LD (15.1 KUAC-TV, 15.2 ARCS, 15.3 360 North, 15.4 KYUK/PBS, Bethel) ¹-- Status of station/license unknown; article links to radio station that operated this channel

Defunct stations	KYUK 4 (PBS, Bethel)

Alaska broadcast television areas by city Alaskan Bush Anchorage Fairbanks Juneau

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