Leading up to National Radio Day on August 20, KNOM hosted its first radio week to raise funds for its news department. Special events for radio week included a trivia contest on social media featuring questions on KNOM’s history and other radio-related topics.
National Radio Day recognizes the invention of radio as a form of mass communication.
KNOM has been broadasting in Western Alaska since July 14, 1971. For its first three decades, much of KNOM’s income came from registered nurses and doctors at the Nome hospital. They lived as volunteers and donated their income to the radio mission, including using a shortwave radio to give medical advice to Western Alaskan villages.
To this day KNOM shares local news, weather, inspirational programming, Sunday Mass, Rosary, and vital communication to all those within reach of its radio waves.
Recently KNOM started streaming online in hopes of expanding its coverage to listeners around the world.
