Local Content and Services Report

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6.1 Telling Public Radio's Story

The purpose of this section is to give you an opportunity to tell us and your community about the activities you have engaged in to address community needs by outlining key services provided, and the local value and impact of those services. Please report on activities that occured in Fiscal Year 2019. Responses may be shared with Congress or the public. Grantees are required to post a copy of this report (Section 6 only) to their website no later than ten (10) days after the submission of the report to CPB. CPB recommends placing the report in an "About" or similar section on your website. This section had previously been optional. Response to this section of the SAS is now mandatory.

Joint licensee Grantees that have filed a 2019 Local Content and Services Report as part of meeting the requirement for TV CSG funding may state they have done so in the corresponding questions below, so long as all of the questions below were addressed as they relate to radio operations in such report. You must include the date the report was submitted to CPB along with the TV Grantee ID under which it was submitted.

1. Describe your overall goals and approach to address identified community issues, needs, and interests through your station’s vital local services, such as multiplatform long and short-form content, digital and in-person engagement, education services, community information, partnership support, and other activities, and audiences you reached or new audiences you engaged. KCUK made efforts to improve to address some community issues such as public safety, health issues, community events, subsistence food gathering, hunting and fishing by producing more public service announcements and talk shows. KCUK overall goal has been to reinforce the local cultural and language through radio productions within the villages that KCUK serves.

2. Describe key initiatives and the variety of partners with whom you collaborated, including other public media outlets, community nonprofits, government agencies, educational institutions, the business community, teachers and parents, etc. This will illustrate the many ways you’re connected across the community and engaged with other important organizations in the area. KCUK made efforts and initiatives by collaborating with local organizations, some regional organizations, to produce public service announcements concerning their organizational programs that they provide to the villages that KCUK serves and do talk shows that inform and impact the villages they serve. Including health, jobs, environment, and informing and alerting weather or other emergencies.KCUK also collaborates with other public radio affiliates to provide some radio programs or services.

3. What impact did your key initiatives and partnerships have in your community? Describe any known measurable impact, such as increased awareness, learning or understanding about particular issues. Describe indicators of success, such as connecting people to needed resources or strengthening conversational ties across diverse neighborhoods. Did a partner see an increase in requests for related resources? Please include direct feedback from a partner(s) or from a person(s) served. KCUK focussing on improving radio services to villages it serves have made some positive impact, awareness, learning about their livelihood, and more informed of news, organizational service programs, local ethnic culture and language learning. Local people are getting well informed in participating in local events, workshops and meetings.

4. Please describe any efforts (e.g. programming, production, engagement activities) you have made to investigate and/or meet the needs of minority and other diverse audiences (including, but not limited to, new immigrants, people for whom English is a second language and illiterate adults) during Fiscal Year 2019, and any plans you have made to meet the needs of these audiences during Fiscal Year 2020. If you regularly broadcast in a language other than English, please note the language broadcast. The communities that KCUK serves are predominately of local ethnic decent and are the majority within these villages. People of these villages uses their local ethnic language and English. KCUK plans to continue and improve its radio programming and produce more programs that reinforce the local ethnic culture and language. KCUK uses both local ethnic and English languages on air and producing radio programs. KCUK plans to work with the school district to improve students participation using local ethnic and English languages.

5. Please assess the impact that your CPB funding had on your ability to serve your community. What were you able to do with your grant that you wouldn't be able to do if you didn't receive it? CPB funding has had positive impact to public radio stations like KCUK which provides the necessary important radio programs that address and made the needs of communities that KCUK serves. With CPB support KCUK is able to provide the best radio service to villages it serves and enables KCUK to expand to some underserved villages within southwestern Alaska. Even with rising costs of living, transportation, cost of goods are affecting the villages that KCUK serves, these villages continue to do their best to support KCUK.