Embracing Culture
With your support, KNOM embraces culture by offering programming that highlights the strength, depth, beauty, and history of Western Alaska.
Shrinking Sea Ice
KNOM airs three daily reports of sea ice location in Western Alaska. This information has been especially important lately, as local sea ice cover has continued to decline, year over year, bringing severe impacts to our listeners.
Anticipating a Future Arctic
There’s a tension long felt by many KNOM listeners: between cherished, traditional lifestyles and the economics of the modern era. “We are living two lives,” said one attendee of a recent Nome conference intended to envision the future of Western Alaska.
What Augie Made Possible
KNOM would not exist without the help of Augie Hiebert, a legendary Alaska broadcaster who avidly championed the mission for decades.
From the GM’s Desk (May 2018)
“You are the shoulders we stand on every day,” Margaret DeMaioribus says in the end-note to the May 2018 “Static.”