About Us
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About APTI
Alaska Public Telecommunications Inc. (APTI), the nonprofit parent company of KAKM , KSKA, and APRN is a community supported public media organization based in Anchorage, Alaska. In June 2011, APTI launched alaskapublic.org, combining radio, TV, news and community engagement onto one website.
APTI Board meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of every month (except November and December 3rd Thursday) at the Elmo Sackett Boradcast Center. The public is welcome to attend.
Mission:
To serve as a trusted public forum and education source that inspires Alaskans with stories of their time and place, informs them with news from the local to the global, and connects them to statewide community through shared experience and interests.
Core Values:
Trustworthy, Excellent, Inspiring, Community, Inclusive, Engaging, Creative
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KAKM is the PBS station for Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska. The station broadcasts a wide variety of noncommercial educational programming including 10 hours, each weekday, of children’s educational programs. It also carries hallmark PBS programs such as NOVA, Nature, Great Performances, Frontline, The NewsHour, and local programming such as Alaska Edition and Running. KAKM Channel 7 TV began broadcasting from temporary facilities made available by the University of Alaska on May 7, 1975. A capital campaign raised sufficient funds to build a new broadcast facility on the Alaska Pacific University Campus in 1991. Named for KAKM’s general manager at the time, KAKM moved into the Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center in 1992.
KAKM Channel 7 translates in the following communities as: K05FW Girdwood, K12LA Kenai/Soldotna, K48AC Kasilof, K21AM Ninilchik, K07PF Homer/Seldovia.
The KAKM Community Advisory Council meets quarterly. The public is welcome to attend.
KSKA is the regional NPR news and information affiliate and carries flagship programs like Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Fresh Air, as well as Public Radio International, American Public Media, BBC, and APRN programming. Most locally produce show like Hometown, Alaska, Stage Talk, Addressing Alaskans, and Line One – Your Health Connection air weekdays at 2:00 pm and 7:00 pm during the all-Alaska hour. KSKA programming highlights goings-on in the Southcentral community, and is regularly the top-rated radio station in Anchorage. KSKA began broadcasting from Grant Hall on the Alaska Pacific University campus with just 3,000 watts of power on August 15, 1978. KSKA merged with KAKM public television forming the parent company APTI in 1994. Three years later, KSKA joined KAKM at the Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center. KSKA broadcasts 24-hours-a-day and reaches about 60 percent of the state’s population.
KSKA FM 91.1 translates in the following communities as: 91.9 Girdwood, 91.1 Prudhoe Bay/Unalaska, and 88.1 Seward.
The KSKA Community Advisory Council meets the 3rd Wednesday of every month at 1:00 pm in the board room of the Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center. The public is welcome to attend.
The Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN) is a member-based organization of 25 independent public radio stations spread across Alaska. These stations pool their resources to create and share news and public affairs programming of statewide value. APRN’s flagship news program, Alaska News Nightly, is a weekday evening 30-minute news show produced year-round. APRN also produces Alaska Morning News and the Alaska Economic Report each weekday morning and Talk of Alaska, a weekly statewide call-in program. Through these programs, APRN often provides the only source for timely, significant and vital statewide and local news and cultural programming in remote rural, bush and Native village settings. APRN is committed to connecting urban and rural Alaska, promoting Alaska’s cultures, regions and ethnic diversity, and to Alaska’s Native peoples. Based in Anchorage, APRN moved in with KSKA and KAKM at Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center in June 2006 after merging with APTI in 2004.
APRN member stations include: KSKA Anchorage, KNBA Anchorage, KBRW Barrow, KYUK Bethel, KCUK Chevak, KDLG Dillingham, KUAC Fairbanks, KZPA Fort Yukon, KIYU Galena, KHNS Haines, KBBI Homer, KTOO Juneau, KDLL Kenai, KRBD Ketchikan, KOTZ Kotzebue, KNOM Nome, KSDP Sand Point, KUHB St. Paul, KUCB Unalaska, KFSK Petersburg, KCAW Sitka, KTNA Talkeetna, KNSA Unalakeet, KCHU Valdez, KSTK Wrangell, KMXT Kodiak.
APTI’s online engagement initiative, Townsquare49 was launched with the new APTI website in 2011.
Town Square 49 serves as Alaska’s forum for highlighting the work of our robust nonprofit and citizen knowledge networks in an online tool focused on developing a rich vision of a better community. The project is a partnership between the Alaska Community Foundation and APTI – as part of a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Community Information Challenge grant. Townsquare49 represents the contributions of the community made through photos, blogs and videos on alaskapublic.org.
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