The Nome Static, May 2017 Archives

They Give By Going. You Go Through Giving.

By Lynette Schmidt | May 1, 2017

2016-2017 volunteers Karen Trop, Lauren Frost, Tyler Stup, and Davis Hovey hold a KNOM Radio banner under a particularly vivid, green-colored instance of the Northern lights near Nome.

For more than five decades, volunteers have come to Nome to give a year or more of service. In concert with supporters like you, the mission’s commitment — to serve Western Alaska with faith, inspiration, news, and education, through radio — has remained constant.

Ministry at the Edge of the World

By KNOM Radio | May 1, 2017 |

A landscape of Diomede, Alaska, in wintertime: a small airplane sits on a runway made of ice, with village houses nestled at the base of a steep hill in the background.

Nowhere is the need for rural Alaska broadcasting more evident than in the village of Diomede, a small community located on an island in the Bering Strait.

A Youth Summit in Kiana

By KNOM Radio | May 1, 2017

Nick Hanson, from the very top of a large, wooden structure, looks down on children sitting on the floor of the Kiana school gymnasium.

KNOM endeavors to connect with listeners, on the air and face to face. Recently, volunteer producer Lauren Frost had the chance to do both during a special youth summit in rural Kiana, Alaska.

When It’s Springtime in Alaska…

By KNOM Radio | May 1, 2017

An aerial view of Nome, Alaska, its airport runways, and nearby mountains, covered in snow in late winter 2017.

Extreme weather tends to persist well into springtime in Western Alaska. It’s a season of transformation — during which accurate radio broadcasting remains vital.

Meet Michael

By KNOM Radio | May 1, 2017

Deejay Michael Burnett, wearing headphones, standing at the microphone and radio sound board in KNOM's main broadcasting studio.

This spring, KNOM listeners are keeping company with a new voice on weekday mornings. Meet Michael Burnett.

In Rural Alaska, “Use What You Can Find”

By KNOM Radio | May 1, 2017

Eileen and Ashley Moses hold their pets inside the Elim Fire Hall

Veterinary services are rare — and greatly needed — in rural Alaska. A recent episode of KNOM’s “Story49” documents how a new organization is filling the gap; it takes listeners to the front lines of where pets and pet owners need care the most.