KCIU

KCIU was the ABC-affiliated station for the Cordova/Valdez, AK market. It operated from July 28, 1954 until June 22, 2017 under the ownership of East Coast Broadcasting Company.
The station shut down after losing its ABC affiliation.
== Digital Television ==
Channel	Video	Aspect Ratio	PSIP Short Name	Programming
6.1 	1080i	16:9 	KCIU-AB 	Main KCIU Programming/ABC
6.2 	720p 	16:9 	KCIU-HI 	Heroes & Icons
6.3 	480i 	16:9 	KCIU-JU 	JUCE TV
KCIU broadcasts in 1080i rather than ABC's native 720p format.
KCIU shut down its analog signal on the original February 17, 2009 cutoff date for analog television due to equipment failure. Sister station KGGH suffered the same fate about a few months later (April 16) and WTJA much earlier (Christmas Day 2007).
== House of Air hijacking ==
At 11:45 P.M. local time on February 2, 2017, regular programming on both KCIU and KGGH was interrupted in an act of broadcast intrusion and replaced with the music video for House of Air by Brendan Maclean (made famous by h3h3productions and PewDiePie), which contains graphic gay sex acts, bondage, urination, and defecation. The video racked up about 700,000 views, 6,000 comments, and 25,000 dislikes on YouTube before being removed. It can still be found online. It's unknown how the hacker managed to take down both KCIU and KGGH as both stations' transmitters are at different locations (KCIU's at Hawkins Island and KGGH's atop Meteorite Mountain).
The video ran the whole way through uncensored and no engineers were on duty at either station at the time to combat the hijacker (it has been commonplace at both stations for virtually all staff to leave after both stations' late newscasts and for all operations to be carried out until sign off time by computer since automation was implemented at both stations in 2002. The automation systems at both stations, which is upgraded on a regular basis, could have done nothing to stop the hijacker or sense that he/she was there). The next morning, it was discovered that both stations were flooded with calls and e-mails of concern. The station then issued an apology and said that they will conduct an investigation to find the intruder. The investigation as to who did this is still ongoing.
Category:Alaska
Category:Cordova
Category:Valdez
Category:ABC network affiliates
Category:Channel 6
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1954
Category:East Coast Broadcasting Company
Category:Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
Category:Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation
Category:Defunct