AK: Ketchikan Rejects Proposal to Limit CNN at Airport

April 5, 2018

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — An agenda item that would have directed Ketchikan International Airport to alter, change or stop broadcasting CNN Airport in its terminals has failed.

The Ketchikan Gateway Borough Assembly on Monday voted down the item 1-5, the Ketchikan Daily News reported .

Assembly Member Rodney Dial, who sponsored the proposal, was its only supporter. Dial told the Assembly that he's received a number of complaints about the "political" nature of CNN's news content.

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Photos by Ingrid Barrentine & Joe Nicholson, Alaska Airlines