Channel 11 's studios were severely damaged following major earthquakes that hit Anchorage on the morning of November 30 , 2018 , which also knocked the station off the air . Part of the structure , equipment and water were strewn about the facility , which one reporter for the station called " absolutely destroyed . " KTVA shut down its analog signal , over VHF channel 11 , on June 12 , 2009 , the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate . The station 's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 28 . Through the use of PSIP , digital television receivers display the station 's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 11
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