Holiday Programming on KUCB Radio

In addition to holiday episodes of our regular radio shows, we’ve selected a few specials for your enjoyment.  From all of us here at Unalaska Community Broadcasting, we wish you happy holidays, and we hope you’ll spend them tuned in to KUCB Radio!

Wednesday, December 23, 9 PM:    A Bay Whalin’ Christmas.  Local radio producer Wendy Hladick shares a special hour of her holiday favorites.

Thursday, December 24, 12 PM:  Songs of Joy and Peace: The Yo Yo Ma Holiday Party.  Imagine a musical party that celebrates the hopes, dreams, and joys of seasonal festivals.  That is what inspired Yo Yo Ma to create this special program. Hosted by John Schaefer, this one hour holiday program also features James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Diana Krall, Dave Brubeck, Renee Flemming, The Silk Road Ensemble, Jake Shimabukuro and more!

Thursday, December 24, 5 PM:  A Christmas Gift For You.  The inside story behind this 1963 album featuring performances by The Ronettes, The Crystals, Darlene Love, and Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans. 

Friday, December 25, 8 AM:  Two hours of your favorite Christmas songs from the KUCB Library including contemporary and traditional selections. 

Friday, December 25, 12 PM:  A Christmas Gift for You

Friday, December 25, 2 PM:  A Bay Whalin’ Christmas

Friday, December 25, 5 PM: Songs of Joy and Peace

Friday, December 25, 8 PM:  St. Paul Country Christmas.  Two hours of country holiday hits.  Produced by our neighbor station up in the Pribilof Islands, KUHB Radio in St. Paul, Alaska.

**Please note, KUCB’s News at Noon and Unalaska Evening News will be on hiatus starting December 21.  The News will be back on January 4.  Have a great holiday!**

Storm Aftermath Photos

 massive storm rocked Unalaska on Friday night. Winds started kicking up around 6 pm. By about 9:30 pm different points clocked wind speeds ranging from 80 miles per hour at the senior center to about 115 miles per hour at the airport. Unconfirmed reports say the wind was blowing about 170 miles per hour at the APL dock when the crane blew over.  For more information, visit the full news story. 

Services Restored!

Thanks, everyone, for your patience during our station outage.  With the assistance of a broadcast engineer who helped us troubleshoot over the telephone, we got all signals up and running this morning.

 KSKA is also back on the air, thanks to their engineering staff fixing an unrelated problem at the KSKA studio. 

 Have a great week!

 Lauren Adams

Station Outages

Unalaska Radio Listeners,

Following this morning’s power outages, KUCB Radio lost connectivity between the radio station and our Haystack Hill transmitter facility. That means our signal is not making it to the transmitter and we’re off the air. KUCB Staff has spent today troubleshooting the radio outages, and will commence work in the morning, with the assistance of a contract engineer. We expect to have things up and running again by end of day Monday.

Additionally, we are aware that KSKA has been off the air since Friday, November 27th. We spoke with KSKA engineers as soon as the outage occurred and they confirmed that KSKA has an equipment problem in Anchorage. The uplink that sends programming to repeater stations around the state is not functioning. They expect to have the problem fixed in the next few days.

It would probably be a good idea to set your clock radios to the ALARM feature, since tomorrow you will likely wake up to dead air!

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Sincerely,

KUCB Staff

Local Teens get Creative with the Alaska Teen Media Institute

The Alaska Teen Media Institute’s Director Rosey Robards visited Unalaska from November 18 to 20.  Her trip was a collaboration between Unalaska Community Broadcasting and the Unalaska City School District in an effort to build a strong teen media program.  Rosey and UCB staff  had a great time working with students in 9th grade English, 12th grade English, the Alternative School and the English as a Second Language classroom, as well as holding an open training for 9th to 12th graders on Thursday night.  Students enjoyed learning interviewing skills, voicing, editing skills and use of an audio recorder.  This training builds on UCB’s current activities with youth, which include a Teen Broadcasting class and work with the ESL class on a monthly radio program called ”Outdoors Unalaska.”  We are excited about new possibilities on the horizon as our teens develop their skills and increase their involvement with local radio and TV. 

Community Advisory Board Members Share Their Ideas

The Community Advisory Boards for Channel 8 TV and KUCB 89.7 FM gathered at Unalaska Community Broadcasting on November 10, 2009.  Thanks to these busy individuals for taking the time to meet with our Board Chair Bryan Stafford, General Manager Lauren Adams, and Development Director Jane Bye  to provide feedback and suggestions for consideration by our Board of Directors.  We were excited to have nine individuals on the Radio CAB and five individuals on the TV CAB, with a few others providing us with written feedback even though they could not be with us in person.   The conversation was lively, the opinions were varied, and we appreciate the excellent input from all. The Community Advisory Board acts as the voice of our community, helps us evaluate our services, and assists us in planning for the future.   The  next meeting will be held in the late spring.  If you are interested in participating, please give us a call at 581-1888 or email jane@kucb.org.

Thanks to our Community Advisory Board Members:

Pam Aus

Jeff Day

Roger Deffendall

Linda Ensign

Donna Henry

Matt Lightner

Greg Peters

Judi Ruder

Hilary Simms

Kelly Stiles

Sonia Streitmatter

Steve Tompkins

Darrell Lee Walker

Sheila Walker

Paul Wilkins

The U-Files–Jeff Dickrell

As a part of Ms. Rudio’s Broadcasting class, Killian Baker interviewed Jeff Dickrell for The U-Files.

Nickname:   Mr. Dickrell

Hometown:   Naperville, IL.

Birthday:   1965

Occupation:   Teacher

What you really want to be:    Teacher

Longest time period you’ve been weathered out or stuck on a plane:    5 days

Why are you here?:   I like being outside

First employer in Unalaska/Dutch Harbor:    UCSD

Favorite memory about Unalaska/Dutch Harbor:    Seeing a bunch of whales in the bay

How long have you been here?:    19 years

Favorite seafood dish:    Scallops

Favorite pasttime:    Hiking/being outside

Least favorite thing about Unalaska/Dutch Harbor:    People leave

Secret vice:    The Daily Show

Some people may be surprised to know that:    I’m really quite tall

How you stay sane during the insane weather:    Read, write

Strangest item in your refrigerator or bathroom:   Ice

Your relationship to the fishing industry:   I teach their kids

Calling All Artists!

The Alaska Legislature is seeking Alaskan art for the new Thomas Stewart Legislative Office in Juneau.  They hope to acquire art from all regions of the state for hanging in hallways, conference rooms and committee rooms.  Here’s a great opportunity to showcase our fabulous Unalaska artists!  Contact Adam Berg in Representative Bryce Edgmon’s office at 800-898-4451.

Bering Beat–Navigating the World of Music on KUCB Radio

Our new World Music radio program, Bering Beat, is bringing music from all over the world to Unalaska on Monday nights at 9 PM.   We’re still looking for lots more music to add to our library, so let us know if you  have some world tunes you’d like to let us download into our system!  We are recording station identification announcements and program IDs in the many languages of Unalaska, so give us a call at 581-1888 if you’d like to take part.

“Fall Back”–Daylight Savings Time ends early Sunday morning!

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back one hour when you go to bed tonight!   Daylight Savings Time officially ends at 2 AM on Sunday, November 1, 2009.   For more information on Daylight Savings Time, click here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091026-daylight-savings-time-2009-fall-back.html