With cut in federal funding public broadcasters look to cope
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The value of the system matters because it helps determine the amount of property taxes the pipeline's owners must pay to the state and municipalities it crosses.
The Senate has until Friday to vote on a measure that could eliminate more than $15 million in annual funding for Alaska’s 27 public broadcasting stations.
Wednesday’s magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska’s Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years.
The fate of Alaska’s smaller public radio stations is in doubt after Congress passed a bill to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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.
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 ...
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.