KFSK - Public Radio in Petersburg, Alaska -

Community Support - Community Radio

Our Goal $5,900 - $975 Away, Thank You!!

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KFSK’s Quiet Drive is underway. Here’s how it works. If we reach our membership revenue goal before May 5th, we’ll cancel the on-air membership drive. To make this possible, please fill out and return the form sent to your post office box.

Your contribution to KFSK is essential for our continued service to the community. By giving either through the mail or online, you will help KFSK remain financially sound and strong.

We’ve invested in our facilities and services, from developing a vibrant web site to installing digital broadcast equipment. This will ensure our ability to continue the outstanding service you’ve come to expect from us each and everyday.

We are $5,900 from our annual revenue goal. We strive to provide you with the best local service possible to be worthy of your generosity.

We thank you for your membership and for your support of community radio. Watch for your Quiet Drive form in the mail, or you can pledge securely on line right now.

Thank you very much for investing in your community owned and operated radio station!

KFSK Volunteers and Voices!

Thank you to all of our members for helping to make the Annual Membership Meeting such a wonderful evening. Fine musical performances from such a talented variety of folks and a room filled with kids, family and friends truly shows that KFSK is indeed "the greatest little community radio station in the universe".

Three KFSK members were elected to serve on the Board of Directors - Rodney Anderson of Petersburg, Joan Kautzer of Kupreanof, and Paul Olson of Petersburg.

Also, thank you to all the businesses and the Chamber of Commerce for their help in making our CoastAlaska Winter Meetings go so smoothly and for showing our guests why we love living here. Folks came from Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell and Ketchikan and they truly appreciated your friendly hospitality.

Our Mission is to Inform, Entertain and Enlighten

KFSK Public Radio is a community-supported, non-profit corporation serving Petersburg and Central Southeast Alaska. Our volunteers and award-winning staff produce music, public affairs, local and regional news and entertainment programs.

We also keep our listeners informed and entertained with programming from the Alaska Public Radio Network, CoastAlaska, National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, and the British Broadcasting Corporation and many independent producers.

Throughout each day we also provide local weather, public service announcements, and a message service for listeners without phones. Our airwaves are also open to any member of the community for on-air editorials as well as announcements on “Tradio”, a twice-weekly buy-sell-trade show.

On this site, you can and listen to individual news stories or a full newscast from each day of the week. Audio of our popular Tradio program is available here, as well as our daily volunteer-hosted music program, Street Beat. To find out what's happening at any time of the day listen to our daily community calendar.

Click and enjoy our community radio……

Streaming On Demand-Where KFSK Stands-Spring 2008

“Streaming on demand” refers to listening to recorded programming from a website. It’s what people do when they go to the KFSK website and click on a news story to hear it. The reason KFSK will not be streaming live is due to two reasons. First of all we would need to pay our networks about $7,000 annually to stream their audio. We do not see this as fiscally prudent. Secondly, the pipeline out of Petersburg would not allow for more than just a few at a time listening to KFSK on the internet.

How Automated Stream on Demand Works
• Programs are recorded live on a computer. The software involved records on a pre-programmed schedule.
• The computer then sends the program to the CoastAlaska FTP site in Juneau.
• KFSK’s webpage is set up with links to the programs on the FTP site.

Project Status
• KFSK’s noon news, afternoon local music show and weekly Tradio show among other services are recorded, sent to the FTP site and available for listening on the webpage.
• KFSK is awaiting more broadband capacity in an affordable format to get more of our programs on the web site. This could be months or a year.

Programming and Technical Considerations
• Recordings start and end on a clock. If programs do not adhere to a clock then they may have clipped or early starts and finishes. This could have an impact on program hosts and the web program audio not sounding so smooth – as if it really does on air!!
• The popular KFSK Web Cam eats up a considerable amount of our capacity as it operates currently. (Taking a new image each 6 seconds, 24 hours a day, each and every day)