“The mission of APTI is to serve as a trusted public forum and education source

that inspires Alaskans with stories of their time and place, informs them with

news from the local to the global, and connects them to a statewide community

through shared experiences and interests.” – APTI Mission Statement.

2011 LOCAL CONTENT AND SERVICE REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY

LOCAL VALUE

KAKM -TV is a valuable part of Southcentral Alaska. KAKM provides quality children’s shows and engaging adult programs in high definition for more than half of the state’s population, from Anchorage to Homer. We are a trusted, reliable source of intelligent and engaging television programming. KAKM delivers PBS, CREATE, and 360 North – the Alaskana channel - to viewers throughout the region.

In 2011, KAKM -TV provided these key local services: - a daily weather, marine and aviation report aimed primarily at rural Alaska. - a leadership role in public affairs programming every week with its Alaska Edition program. - various programs of statewide interest for other public television stations in the state in Bethel, Fairbanks, and Juneau. - a rich and dynamic partnership with the Alaska Community Foundation.

KAKM’S local services had deep impact in Southcentral Alaska. KAKM is Southcentral Alaska’s source for PBS programming, reaching more than half the state’s viewing audience. APTI’s partners include a wide range of civic and community groups including the Alaska World Affairs Council, Alaska Community Foundation, Cyrano’s Community Theatre, and scores of individuals by our Town Square 49 initiative.

“APTI has been a leader and a partner in

building a stronger sense of community

throughout the entire state.” - Candace Winkler. President/CEO. Alaska Community Foundation.

LOCAL IMPACT

2011 KEY SERVICES

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IN THE COMMUNITY

KAKM has been serving Anchorage and Southcentral Alaska for more than 35 years. The station broadcasts a wide variety of noncommercial programming including 10 hours, each weekday, of children’s educational programs. We proudly carry on our HD channel (7.1) hallmark PBS programs such as NOVA, Nature, Great Performances, Frontline, The NewsHour, and long-running local programs such as Alaska Edition, RUNNING, and Alaska Weather. We carry the very popular CREATE channel on 7.2 and the Alaskana channel, 360 North, on 7.3. Our broadcasts reach throughout Anchorage, neighboring Mat-Su Valley and down through the Kenai Peninsula, where we became the first high definition broadcast in the region. More than half of the state’s population can watch KAKM. Our studio and editing suites are the best-equipped in the state and are located in the Elmo Sackett Broadcast Center on the Alaska Pacific University campus in Midtown Anchorage. KAKM is part of the Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc. family. APTI also includes KSKA-FM, which is among the most popular stations in Anchorage. KSKA’s listening audience includes about half the state. Our signal can be heard in faraway places such as the oil-rich fields of Prudhoe Bay and Aleutian town of Unalaska. KSKA also can be heard in the mountain village of Girdwood and port town of Seward. APTI is the home of the Alaska Public Radio Network, which consists of two dozen public radio stations. Our APRN staff provides coverage of Washington, DC., Juneau and Anchorage, and produces, with the help of member station reporters, weekday newscasts in the morning and early evening. Beyond providing the best of PBS programming, KAKM consistently produces local programming of high value to Alaskans. Our daily weather program, produced by a partnership with the National Weather Service, features news and information around the state and highlights marine and aviation forecasts. Alaska Weather is carried throughout the state. KAKM’s weekly public affairs program, Alaska Edition , assesses the most-talked about stories of the week around the state by a team of well-respected journalists from Anchorage, Juneau, Fairbanks and DC. It is aired throughout the state and is also broadcast on KSKA. Our RUNNING program provides candidates for Assembly, School Board, and Legislature, and important statewide races such as Governor, US Senate and US House opportunities to connect with citizens in a variety of thoughtful and engaging formats. Our programs highlighting statewide

2011 LOCAL CONTENT AND SERVICE REPORT

IN THE COMMUNITY

races are oftentimes joint-produced by our colleagues in public broadcasting and broadcast from our studios. We appreciate having the chance to create local programs that play off national PBS programming. This year, we produced and broadcast Faces of Alaska in the afterglow of the popular PBS series, Faces of America. Our program told the personal stories and histories of four, well-known Alaskans: Alaska Native leader Willie Hensley of Anchorage, mystery writer Dana Stabenow of Homer, Iditarod champion Lance Mackey of Fairbanks, and Olympic skier Holly Brooks of Anchorage. Faces of Alaska aired on KAKM, KSKA and was offered to the larger public broadcasting community in the state. Each guest’s story was highlighted on our Web site. KAKM also launched its Community Cinema initiative in 2011. We invite the community to our partner Out North Theatre to live screenings of independent films from the (2011-12) season of the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens . In 2011, KAKM began partnering with local community organizations to produce a range of programs. Our partnership with the Alaska Community Foundation sparked the beginning of a Conversations that Matter series that will center on important issues facing Alaskans. The first program called additional attention to the very serious issue of suicide in Alaska. (The second in the series (Spring 2012) will examine race relations in the state.) It was aired by KAKM and KSKA and was provided to the other public TV and radio stations in the state. On a lighter note, KAKM joined forces with Cyrano’s Theatre Company to produce and broadcast It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play from our studio. Recorded in front of a studio audience, Wonderful Life was broadcast on KAKM and KSKA during the holidays. It was so warmly received we immediately began further conversations with Cyrano’s about future productions and started to reach out to other arts groups to explore additional programming opportunities. KAKM proactively seeks opportunities to schedule special, independent films about, by or for Alaskans. Among those we broadcast last year included: Survive and Thrive, a documentary about breast cancer survivors by Anchorage filmmaker Mary Katzke; America’s Wildest Refuge: Discovering the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve by Alaska Geographic; Purely Alaskan: Iditarod by the Iditarod Trail Committee; and Eating Alaska, a fun look at a vegetarian and filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein, who moved to Alaska; Alaska Far Away: The New Deal Pioneers of the Matanuska Colony, a documentary film tracing the steps of Midwesterns who emigrated to Alaska as part of a New Deal experiment. KAKM is supportive of other community-building efforts. For instance: KAKM (and KSKA) aired public service announcements calling attention to the opportunity for Alaskans to contribute part of their Permanent Fund Dividend to nonprofits in the state. The Pick. Click. Give. campaign raised about $1 million for nonprofits last year. APTI also was a beneficiary of the program. We received the most amount of money and the largest number of gifts.

2011 LOCAL CONTENT AND SERVICE REPORT

STORIES OF IMPACT

KAKM leads way in public affairs KAKM continued its long-standing tradition of hosting its weekly current events program, Alaska Edition, in 2011. It features analysis of the important news stories in Anchorage and the state. The station also featured candidates for Anchorage Assembly and School board in its elections program, RUNNING.

KAKM provides unique Alaska programs KAKM teams with various producers and indie filmmakers to bring special programs about and for Alaskans. In 2011, we aired special programs on the Iditarod; the Arctic National Wildlife Preserve; a documentary on breast cancer by a local filmmaker; and produced and broadcast a special four-part series, Faces of Alaska, which featured four well-known Alaskans. We also broadcast films highlighting the stories of Native Americans or Alaska Natives such as the Reindeer Queen.

KAKM airs daily weather to bush Alaska Our station proudly presents a daily weather program aimed primarily, but not exclusively, to rural Alaskans. This show features marine and aviation reports and special interviews with aviators intimately familiar with flying throughout Alaska. KAKM, in a unique partnership, teams with the highly-respected National Weather Service to produce and broadcast this statewide program.

Community leader, Willie Hensley, while recording “Faces of Alaska” at KAKM.

Meteorologist Dave Snider reporting the weather.

APTI and Alaska Community Foundation Partner to Launch Ground-Breaking Citizen Engagement Initiative Town Square 49 was created to provide community organizations, big and small, and individual citizens the chance to share their views, ideas, and projects on a larger stage. Built into APTI’s nationally recognized new Web site – www.alaskapublic.org - Town Square 49 has given support and encouragement to Alaskans throughout the state, from Fairbanks to Juneau. In the first six months, at least 87 organizational or citizen voices have contributed more than 200 individual posts, including stories, photos, and videos. Town Square 49 has its own landing page, but TS49 material is featured on our main landing page on a daily basis. Reach in the Community: In the first six months after our launch, we attracted almost a half-million visits to our new site. Our top traffic resources continue to be Yahoo News and Google. Facebook and Twitter also drive traffic to alaskapublic.org. We have more than 1,550 Facebook “Likes” and more than 5,000 Twitter followers. Our TS 49 initiative also provided us new opportunities to produce such new programs for TV, radio and the Web. One such program was: Conversations That Matter: Suicide in Alaska. Furthermore, we have routinely promoted TS49 on KAKM and KSKA. Partnerships: Our main partner has been the Alaska Community Foundation. Impact and Community Feedback: Our TS49 initiative has broadened and deepened our connection in our community and has extended it beyond Southcentral Alaska.

“APTI has been a valuable partner in

developing our Conversations about

Causes that Matter series. One of the

highlights has been a production on

teen broadcast on both KSKA and

KAKM. The reach and impact of this

project has been invaluable to the

Alaska Community Foundation and the

state as a whole. The production

enabled us to reach the entire state and

this conversation continued for several

weeks through our joint project, Town

Square 49. APTI has been a leader and a

partner in building a stronger sense of

community throughout the entire

state.”

– Candace Winkler. President & CEO.

Alaska Community Foundation.

2011 LOCAL CONTENT AND SERVICE REPORT

Evaluating Outcomes, Measuring Impact

“In Alaska’s media environment, trusted local content is more important than ever. We depend on APTI for terrific programs like Talk of Alaska, Alaska Edition and Alaska Weather, which we share with audiences statewide on the 360 North public affairs channel.” - Bill Legere. President & General Manager. KTOO-TV. Juneau.

APTI maintains close working

relationships with fellow public

broadcasters in Alaska, routinely

providing locally generated

content to AlaskaOne (KTOO,

KUAC, KYUK), 360 North and

KUCB community television

(Unalaska.)

These TV – and radio -

partnerships have provided a

greater understanding of rural-

urban issues, and have brought

the citizens of this vast state

closer together.

The cast of It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play performs before a studio audience. The production was aired on KAKM and KSKA-FM. “We had an extraordinary collaborative partnership…We hope there will be future opportunities to work with APTI broadcasting, as this was such a special and fun experience for all involved.” - Sandy Harper. Producing Artistic Director. Cyrano's Theatre Company. Anchorage

“APTI is one of the best bridge-builders in the community linking what's going on locally with the community. APTI is always looking for ways to partner with others and we have found several significant ways to work together.” - Lise Falskow. President & CEO. Alaska World Affairs Council. Anchorage