About Gavel Alaska
Gavel Alaska is a statewide television service of KTOO, Juneau’s public media organization, and provides unedited live and recorded coverage of state government activities. Gavel Alaska is operated independently of the legislature, and is funded by the City and Borough of Juneau and private sector businesses and organizations.
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Our usual broadcast hours are from 7:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, during the annual legislative session. As the need arises, we extend our hours to cover weekend or late-night meetings and floor sessions.
Our legislative coverage includes Alaska House and Senate floor sessions, legislative committee meetings, press conferences and other legislative events. In addition, we cover oral arguments before the Alaska Supreme Court, the Governor’s press conferences and briefings, general government activities, and other meetings about legislative issues or of political interest.
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Gavel Alaska began as a two-week demonstration project during the First Session of the Nineteenth Alaska Legislature in 1995. The next year, coverage expanded to full time. KTOO pioneered legislative coverage in Alaska in the late ’70s with weekly and daily wrap-up programs.
In 2021, Gavel Alaska’s operations moved to a new state-of-the-art robotic camera system with 40 permanently-mounted cameras in the Capitol. New control rooms and master control facilities were added later that year. In 2024 Gavel Alaska aired more than 800 hours of legislative, executive and judicial branch coverage.
Gavel Alaska airs in high definition on KTOO 360TV and is available over the air on public television stations in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Bethel and Juneau, on the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS), Yukon TV, Dish and DirecTV. Roku and Apple TV apps for KTOO 360TV launched in 2021.
All legislative floor sessions, committee meetings and Supreme Court oral arguments are streamed live at gavelalaska.org.
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