January 20, 2012
For immediate release
KTOO-TV’s Gavel to Gavel Alaska, the statewide television and Internet webcasting service, has launched a new mobile website for the start of the 2012 Legislative session. Viewers with mobile devices like iPhones and Androids can view the site at www.gavelalaska.org/mobile.
The mobile site allows viewers to watch live television coverage, check the daily schedule of televised and web events, and access the archives to watch events from earlier in the session and previous years. The site is compatible with most smart phones and other mobile devices, including the iPhone, iPad and Androids.
The new mobile site, along with the main website at www.gavelalaska.org, provides a way for viewers to access Gavel Alaska from anywhere in the world. Gavel Alaska is also broadcast on TV over the air in Anchorage on KAKM-TV, channel 7.3, Fairbanks on KUAC-TV channel 9.2 and Juneau on KTOO-TV, channel 3.2. The service is also carried by 37 cable systems statewide, including all of the GCI Cable systems, as well as on satellite’s Dish Network and DIRECTV.
Gavel to Gavel Alaska is produced by KTOO-TV, the public television station in Juneau. The City and Borough of Juneau provides a major grant to support the coverage. ACS provides the Internet webcasting service. GCI Cable and several other cable companies are providing channels on cable systems throughout the state and both Dish Network and DIRECTV provide distribution to their home satellite customers in Alaska.
Other sponsors include AARP Alaska, the Association of Alaska School Boards, the Alaska Committee, Anglo American, ACS, the Alaska Conference of Mayors, the Alaska Cruise Association, the Alaska Power Association, the Alaska Mental Health Trust, the Alaska State Chamber of Commerce, Alaska USA, the Alaska State Employees Association, AT&T, BP, Bartlett Regional Hospital, Bristol Bay Native Corporation, ConocoPhillips, GCI, IBEW Local 1547, the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, NEA-Alaska and the Pebble Partnership.
Viewers can get updated daily schedules and access the audio and video streams via the website, www.gavelalaska.org. The e-mail address for Gavel to Gavel Alaska is gavel@ktoo.org.
News directors and editors: For telephone interviews about Gavel to Gavel Alaska, call Bill Legere, KTOO-TV at 907-586-1670.
