Hometown, Alaska: Seasonal Affective Disorder

In addition to her highlighter collection, plants, and family photos, a SAD light hovers over Brittany when she sits at APTI’s front desk during the winter months.

Alaskans are at the deepest trough of winter darkness, just five days to the bottom — Winter Solstice, Dec. 21. If you’re feeling the absence of light and seek some relief, listen as three experts discuss the latest on Seasonal Affective Disorder. Joining host Kathleen McCoy, psychiatrist Aron Wolf, SAD lights vendor Joe Vergnetti, and a UAA Student Health & Counseling nurse practitioner Georgia DeKeyser Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 on Hometown, Alaska.

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Hometown, Alaska: Hungry in Alaska

More than 80,000 Alaskans get extra food from food bank partnerships across the state. And more than 65,000 Alaskans stretch their food dollars with federal Food Stamps. But new ways of meeting nutritional needs in tight times are surfacing around Alaska. In Igiugig, a village near Lake Iliamna, a young tribal council president leads her village toward creating a sustainable food supply – like the 450 pounds of potatoes they just harvested, and fresh eggs from community chickens. Now, they’re building a year-round greenhouse to grow community food and sell produce to local lodges. This week on Hometown, Alaska Kathleen McCoy hosts Food Bank of Alaska executive director, Susannah Morgan and Americorps volunteer, Kelly Ingram to scope out the challenge, and some of the creative solutions, of feeding hungry Alaskans.

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Your KSKA Day

Reserving Your Day on KSKA is a great way to celebrate a special person or event in your life. Whether it’s a birthday, an anniversary or in memory of someone, KSKA will help you honor that day when you become a KSKA Day Sponsor.

Here’s how:

1. Pledge Your Support
A contribution of $500 or more to KSKA will allow you to choose your day on KSKA. Your pledge must be paid in full or be part of an active automatic payment program with APTI before we can process your KSKA Day Sponsorships.

2. Select Your Day
To make your day truly special, only one KSKA Day Sponsor will air per day. Therefore, we ask that you indicate a first and second date choice. We will confirm the date with you before your announcements air on FM 91.1. If your first choice is not available, we will reserve the date of your second choice. If your first date choice isn’t available and you don’t indicate a second choice, we’ll choose one for you.

Check the Availability of your Date:

Click here to view the current 2009-10 KSKA DAY Calendar

3. Select an Introduction
The KSKA Day Sponsor announcement, including the introduction cannot exceed :15 seconds. The introduction is :03 seconds.

Here are your choices for an introduction:

Today’s broadcast is supported by a generous gift from (your name)
Today’s broadcast is supported by a generous gift from (your name) in honor of:
Today’s broadcast is supported by a generous gift from (your name) to celebrate:
Today’s broadcast is supported by a generous gift from (your name) in memory of:
Today’s broadcast is supported by a generous gift from (your name) to celebrate the life of:

Your message should time out to :15 seconds. So, in 30 words or less indicate the person’s name or event to be honored and a brief statement indicating the reason for message. KSKA staff may edit your message for length and content. When submitting copy, please include clear, phonetic pronunciations of names in your message.

4. Listen to KSKA on Your Day
KSKA staff will voice your announcement and schedule them to air five times during the day of your choice. Weekdays, the announcements air at: 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Weekends the announcements will air at: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.

Terms and Conditions

The purpose of the KSKA Day Sponsorship is to acknowledge people or special events such as anniversaries, birthdays, graduations, weddings, holidays, etc. Pet names, business names, and non-profit events and fundraisers are acceptable. However, advertising, or expressions of ideological, theological or political opinions are not acceptable.

KSKA Day Sponsorship must be scheduled, paid for and completed within one calendar year. KSKA must receive your Day Sponsor messages no later than five days prior to the reserved day. If we have not received your message by airtime, we will provide a generic message that reads, “Today’s broadcast is supported by a generous gift from (your name)”

Unforeseen schedule changes, breaking news and/or technical difficulties may alter your announcement day or times. We will work with you in these occasions to honor the spirit of your message and your reserved day.

KSKA Public Radio reserves the right to refuse any submitted announcement copy for a KSKA Day Sponsorship.

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Off Mic: KSKA Listening to You

A note from KSKA’s Program Director, Bede Trantina:

Thank you so much for calling and writing to KSKA sharing your thoughts on the new program schedule. Our special Community Forum call-in with you on July 22nd went by so fast. Pat Yack, VP of APTI’s News and Public Media and I talked to 18 callers and read 10 of your emails with another 30 emails and web comments coming in after the show was over. As a follow up to our January 21st show, you gave us valuable feedback and wonderful comments about KSKA’s program changes to craft a schedule you helped create.

Your feedback on Community Forum on July 22 ranged from wanting to hear the loss of daylight after summer solstice, to inquiring about vintage programs, to encouraging better promotion of shows both on and off the air. We heard you ask that shows that were taken off to make room for the new shows be brought back. And, you asked us to explain the opportunities and limitations that are part of the process of making program changes.
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Public broadcasting stations explore statewide transformation

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Three of Alaska’s public broadcasters, including KTOO-Juneau, KUAC-Fairbanks and APTI-Anchorage (KSKA-FM, KAKM-TV and APRN) have been discussing emerging needs and pressures in public media and imaging better futures.

These wide-ranging discussions settled upon the view by late spring 2009 that nothing short of transformation is required for public broadcasting and its core values to survive and flourish in our communities in a transformed media environment.

This site presents what belongs in a new entity we propose to call Alaska Public Media.

This vision is distilled from dozens of hours of brainstorming and conversation, and is our shared proposal for how public media should evolve in our communities.

We invited you to visit: http://www.alaskapublicmedia.blogspot.com/ for additional details.

AWAC Presents: Patrick Yack

The former editor of the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Patrick Yack was named t he Atwood Chair of Journalism at the University Alaska Anchorage for 2009. In today’s ever-changing media environment, he explains how teaching young journalists continues to evolve with the profession. Today, Mr. Yack is the Vice President of News and Public Affairs at Alaska Public Telecommuncations Inc. (KSKA/KAKM/APRN’s parent company). Recorded April 17th in Anchorage, he speaks on The Fall of Foreign Journalism in the American Press.

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Line One: Radiation Therapy for Cancer

Gordon Isaacs, the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) in 1957.

About half of all people with cancer are treated with radiation therapy, either alone or in combination with other types of cancer treatment. Radiation therapy uses a certain type of energy (called ionizing radiation) to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. This week on Line One, host Dr. Woodard welcomes Anchorage radiation oncologist, Dr. Berit Madson to take your questions on the use of radiation to treat cancer.

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Off Mic: Dedication station

If she’s not planning for the Harvest of Wines or the Art Showcase Auction, if she’s not sitting at the front desk or heating up some home cooking for the next board meeting, Pam Whitney is heading up the phone bank at KSKA’s Fall Membership Drive as it approaches the end. Community support is an integral part of KSKA’s success and dedicated volunteers like Pam, combined with supportive listeners like you have kept KSKA on the air for 30 years. Tomorrow is the last day of the Fall Membership Drive at KSKA and if you haven’t pledged yet, don’t delay, because your time is running out! The goal is 1300 members. The most recent update has put us just over 1100. Your pledge can help us reach our goal. You rely on us, and we rely on you. Help us reach our goal. Thanks for you support.

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The Next President: A World of Challenges

Madeline Albright, Colin Powell and Henry Kissinger gathered at George Washington University on Sept. 15, 2008

As the general election campaign swings into high gear, KSKA brings you a conversation with five of the most influential decision makers of our time, Wednesday at 2:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Moderated by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and GW Professor Frank Sesno, The Next President: A World of Challenges, features former Secretaries of State, Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, James Baker III, Warren Christopher, and Henry Kissinger discussing the global challenges facing the next U.S. president. The forum covers an array of subjects including the economy, global warming, the situations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Georgia, Darfur, the role of the media in public life, and there is even mention of Alaska’s superstar governor, Sarah Palin. Tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 2:00 PM, repeating at 7:00 PM, hear The Next President: A World of Challenges on KSKA. Community Forum with Nellie Moore returns next week at 2:00 and 7:00.