NPR member station KSKO 89.5 McGrath, Alaska with our new studio going live at the end of the month. Left to right.. main studio, production and tech core. Heres the pic: Combined.jpg
We are what Scott Fybush would call "nominally" NPR... we have 7 hours a day of local programming, 2 hours of country music and 5 hours of rock/classic rock/oldies/AC in the afternoon with all 7 hours wrapping around our cornerstone of weather and "messages" (community bulletin board of the air)
We carry several typical public radio and non public radio typical syndicated shows....a yacht rock show, a travel show, a classic country show and "The Car Doctor" with Ron Ananian. We're a cross between NPR/community/college radio in programming styles and everything we run/program is because of an identified community need/want/desire.
We carry 1 hour of the BBC at 5am, one our of NPR's ME at 6am, then local programming 7 to 9, a regional show 9 to 12, local shows 12-5, state news at 5, half hour of ATC at 530, Native American Calling at 6 and BBC at 7pm. We actually dropped Fresh Air as it was long longer relevant to my listeners , dropped the 2nd hour of ME and 1st hour of ATC to add local programming.
We've been at 70 Chinana Avenue for 43 years and needed to move because the building is falling apart and will be too expensive to fix. And it was time to upgrade alot of our gear after 15-20 years of life
Our satellite dishes and tower are staying at the old location and we're using licensed STL links for main and back up carrying both audio and data (internet) with satellite recievers, processing and transmitter gear in a weatherize connex box outside the old building.
We're moving to the Iditarod Area School District administrative offices building that also houses a local museum.
We upgraded from the BW TX internal processing and a dbx166xs to an Monia Volt runnign the cgsmooth preset. We are upgrading our streaming hardware from a Comrex briclink II to a Telos Zip Stream R. We have RDS now, currently static but will be dynamic when the studio goes live at the end of the month. We went from IMediatouch to Zetta automation. The level of support and flexibility of the system is what sold us.
We went from a Wheatstone E1 with 8 channels to an Wheatstone IP16 for the studio, with several channels removed for live copy, which is imperative to what we do, and we didnt want it covering up console faders. We will keep those taken out channels for spares and keep our old blades as spares. We will take a combo of prod and on air gear from the previous on air and production room and create a SHTF studio in the weatherized connex box.
No, I dont live in the new place, I'm about 3 blocks away in a house.
The old building will likely get torn down and plowed into the basement. They are going to attempt to sell the land but with the small size and the fact the tower/sat dishes are staying there, I doubt it'll sell.
We have an Angry Audio Bluetooth device for phones and laptops to run into the main console. We have a seperate computer for internet and editing. We have a new phone system and will reuse the old phone hybrid.
We are what Scott Fybush would call "nominally" NPR... we have 7 hours a day of local programming, 2 hours of country music and 5 hours of rock/classic rock/oldies/AC in the afternoon with all 7 hours wrapping around our cornerstone of weather and "messages" (community bulletin board of the air)
We carry several typical public radio and non public radio typical syndicated shows....a yacht rock show, a travel show, a classic country show and "The Car Doctor" with Ron Ananian. We're a cross between NPR/community/college radio in programming styles and everything we run/program is because of an identified community need/want/desire.
We carry 1 hour of the BBC at 5am, one our of NPR's ME at 6am, then local programming 7 to 9, a regional show 9 to 12, local shows 12-5, state news at 5, half hour of ATC at 530, Native American Calling at 6 and BBC at 7pm. We actually dropped Fresh Air as it was long longer relevant to my listeners , dropped the 2nd hour of ME and 1st hour of ATC to add local programming.
We've been at 70 Chinana Avenue for 43 years and needed to move because the building is falling apart and will be too expensive to fix. And it was time to upgrade alot of our gear after 15-20 years of life
Our satellite dishes and tower are staying at the old location and we're using licensed STL links for main and back up carrying both audio and data (internet) with satellite recievers, processing and transmitter gear in a weatherize connex box outside the old building.
We're moving to the Iditarod Area School District administrative offices building that also houses a local museum.
We upgraded from the BW TX internal processing and a dbx166xs to an Monia Volt runnign the cgsmooth preset. We are upgrading our streaming hardware from a Comrex briclink II to a Telos Zip Stream R. We have RDS now, currently static but will be dynamic when the studio goes live at the end of the month. We went from IMediatouch to Zetta automation. The level of support and flexibility of the system is what sold us.
We went from a Wheatstone E1 with 8 channels to an Wheatstone IP16 for the studio, with several channels removed for live copy, which is imperative to what we do, and we didnt want it covering up console faders. We will keep those taken out channels for spares and keep our old blades as spares. We will take a combo of prod and on air gear from the previous on air and production room and create a SHTF studio in the weatherized connex box.
No, I dont live in the new place, I'm about 3 blocks away in a house.
The old building will likely get torn down and plowed into the basement. They are going to attempt to sell the land but with the small size and the fact the tower/sat dishes are staying there, I doubt it'll sell.
We have an Angry Audio Bluetooth device for phones and laptops to run into the main console. We have a seperate computer for internet and editing. We have a new phone system and will reuse the old phone hybrid.
