With cut in federal funding public broadcasters look to cope
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The fate of Alaska’s smaller public radio stations is in doubt after Congress passed a bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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A powerful earthquake struck a Republican senator's home state Wednesday. Just a day earlier, she'd slammed budget cuts that could affect natural disaster warnings.
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Juneau Empire on MSNPublic radio facing cuts as Congress moves to pull back fundingKTOO could lose one-third of its budget if the House passes a bill cutting funding for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting
The controversial program, aimed at boosting the population of a struggling caribou herd in Western Alaska, had been halted by court rulings because of legal flaws.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R, announced Tuesday night he worked with the Trump administration to preserve funding for rural Alaska stations. The next day, Alaska’s News Source learned that the “side deal” will be a one-time check to Tribal public media stations.
Should public media be spared the budget cutting axe of President Donald Trump and the congressional allies of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE?
Alaska Public Media plans to expand its television broadcast service of south Anchorage through a proposed acquisition of KTVA from Alaska-based service provider GCI Communication Corp. The license transfer, pending with the FCC, will improve over–the-air reception of AKPM’s public TV service for up to 85,778 people, wrote AKPM GM Ed Ulman in an email, citing a coverage study by AKPM ...
According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, fishermen in the Shumagin Islands and South Unimak areas harvested about 720,000 salmon through the end of June — the second-lowest June on record since the 1980s.