Just a clarification.  When the potential of television became known, Cap Lathrop wanted nothing to do with it, believing it was unnecessary competition to his theaters.  It was Augie Hiebert and Al Bramstedt, both of whom had their first real success in broadcasting working for Lathrop at KFAR in Fairbanks, who pioneered television in Alaska.  KFIA, now KTUU, was started by a San Diego-based company, with studios and transmitter originally at the Westward Hotel.  Around the time Harrry Hill became president of The Lathrop Company, ca. 1955, the company bought the station and it became KENI-TV.  Bramstedt ran the station before purchasing it in 1960.  Hill was also the one who added the penthouse apartment to the building, I presume as his residence.