The call letters were chosen to represent the three major geographic areas served by the station: Anchorage, Kenai, and Matanuska.

KAKM operates a full-time satellite station, KTOO-TV (channel 3), licensed to the capital city of Juneau.

KYUK-LD also rebroadcasts KAKM, but it carries the Alaska Rural Communications Service on its second digital subchannel in place of Create.

The stations' signals are multiplexed: 360 North provides statewide coverage of Alaska public affairs, documentaries, historical programs, and Native topics.

[9] KAKM and KTOO shut down their analog signals on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate:[10] KAKM and KTOO extend their over-the-air coverage through a network of translator stations.