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Religious Interference

From: Eric Mack
Length: 05:26

Local community broadcasters in Alaska are losing listeners to national religious broadcasters. Read the full description.

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Default-piece-image-2 When another K-Love frequency signed on in Anchorage last year, listeners 70 miles north were no longer able to receive their local community station. The FCC says K-Love is operating within its license, so a group of community broadcasters is fighting back by securing as many remaining frequencies as possible. Eric Mack reports. Broadcast on KTNA-FM 6/29/05; Alaska Public Radio Network 6/30/05

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When another K-Love frequency signed on in Anchorage last year, listeners 70 miles north were no longer able to receive their local community station. The FCC says K-Love is operating within its license, so a group of community broadcasters is fighting back by securing as many remaining frequencies as possible. Eric Mack reports. Broadcast on KTNA-FM 6/29/05; Alaska Public Radio Network 6/30/05

Broadcast History

KTNA-FM 6/29/05
Alaska Public Radio Network 06/30/05

Transcript

Just after mile 70, heading North on the Parks Highway, one of those familiar blue signs advises drivers to tune their radios to KTNA at 88.5FM for weather information. But for the past year, there has been no local weather on that frequency along this stretch of road near Willow.

That’s KAKL-FM, broadcasting from a transmitter in Anchorage at 88.5. When the new station went on the air late in the spring of 2004, KTNA listeners like Brandon Stevenson of Caswell were among the first to take notice.

For Brandon and many other people in the Upper Susitna Valley, KTNA has been a primary source of local news, information and communication since the station went on the air in the early 90s. Station Manager Robert Ambrose began com...
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