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

Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage is a unified home rule municipality in the southcentral part of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the northernmost major city in the United States...

 and is operated by Alaska Public Broadcasting, a joint venture of Alaska Public Media and AlaskaOne

AlaskaOne

AlaskaOne is a a Public Broadcasting Service member network of public television stations, serving communities in Alaska outside of Anchorage, which has its own PBS channel . It is operated by the University of Alaska....

. 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 broadcast networks (NBC

NBC

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, CBS

CBS

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, ABC

American Broadcasting Company

The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

, Fox

Fox Broadcasting Company

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, MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV

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) and syndication

Television syndication

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, via the Anchorage stations; plus PBS

Public Broadcasting Service

The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....

 programming from AlaskaOne

AlaskaOne

AlaskaOne is a a Public Broadcasting Service member network of public television stations, serving communities in Alaska outside of Anchorage, which has its own PBS channel . It is operated by the University of Alaska....

 and KAKM

KAKM

KAKM is a Public television station in Anchorage, Alaska, broadcasting locally on digital channel 8 as a PBS member station. The station is owned by Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc., and is the only PBS station in Alaska that is not part of AlaskaOne. Its program is transmitted from Knik TV...

. Anchorage stations provide their programming to ARCS free of charge with the condition that advertising is allowed to remain. There is currently no CW

The CW Television Network

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 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:

• K13SH Adak
  Adak, Alaska
  Adak , formerly Adak Station, is a city in the Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 326. It is the westernmost municipality in the United States and the southernmost city in Alaska. The city is the former location of the Adak Army Base and Adak...
  
  
• K12NS Akiak
  Akiak, Alaska
  Akiak is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 309 at the 2000 census....
  
  
• K04LK Akutan
  Akutan, Alaska
  Akutan is a city in Aleutians East Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 713 at the 2000 census. In 2009, the population was 812.-Geography:Akutan is located at...
  
  
• K04ND Alakanuk
• K02KB Allakaket
  Allakaket, Alaska
  Allakaket is a 2nd Class City in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area of the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 97 at the 2000 census.-Geography and climate:...
  
  
• K11QI Ambler
  Ambler, Alaska
  Ambler is a city in Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 309. The city is located in the large Inupiaq language speaking region of Alaska, and the local dialect is known as the Ambler dialect...
  
  
• K09RS Anaktuvuk Pass
  Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska
  Anaktuvuk Pass is a city in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. The population was 249 at the 2007 Census Bureau estimate.-Geography:...
  
  
• K07SS Angoon
  Angoon, Alaska
  Angoon is a city on Admiralty Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 572, by the 2010 census the population had declined to 459...
  
  
• K11QN Aniak
  Aniak, Alaska
  Aniak is a city in the Bethel Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the 2000 census the population was 572.-Geography: ....
  
  
• K04LI Arctic Village
  Arctic Village, Alaska
  Arctic Village is an unincorporated Native American village and a census-designated place in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of the CDP was 152. The village is located in the large Gwitch'in speaking region of Alaska, and the local dialect...
  
  
• K04LJ Atka
  Atka, Alaska
  Atka is a hamlet located on the east side of Atka Island, in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 61 at the 2010 census.The population of Atka is nearly entirely Aleut . The major industry is fishing.-Geography:...
  
  
• K06LG Chuathbaluk
  Chuathbaluk, Alaska
  Chuathbaluk is a city in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 119.-Geography:Chuathbaluk is located at ....
  
  
• K06LK Clarks Point, Etc.
• K06LP Circle Hot Springs
  Circle Hot Springs, Alaska
  Circle Hot Springs is an unincorporated community in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, United States. The community is located about south of Central and the Steese Highway. Circle Hot Springs has an airport, Circle Hot Springs Airport...
  
  
• K09OW Nome
  Nome, Alaska
  Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the...
  
  
• K13UG Nome
  Nome, Alaska
  Nome is a city in the Nome Census Area in the Unorganized Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska, located on the southern Seward Peninsula coast on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea. According to the 2010 Census, the city population was 3,598. Nome was incorporated on April 9, 1901, and was once the...
  
  
• K13RR Tok
  Tok, Alaska
  Tok is a census-designated place in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. The population was 1,393 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...
  
  

Inactive stations

• K04KS Barrow
  Barrow, Alaska
  Barrow is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is one of the northernmost cities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point. Barrow's population was 4,212 at the...
  
  
• K11NN Barrow
  Barrow, Alaska
  Barrow is the largest city of the North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is one of the northernmost cities in the world and is the northernmost city in the United States of America, with nearby Point Barrow being the nation's northernmost point. Barrow's population was 4,212 at the...