KUAC TV Becoming Independent of �Ӱ�ԭ��One

December 11, 2011

Interior �Ӱ�ԭ��'s public television station is returning to its roots. Effective July 1, KUAC, like its radio counterpart, will be a standalone station serving Interior �Ӱ�ԭ��.

At the Nov. 18 meeting of the �Ӱ�ԭ�� Public Broadcasting Service, the corporate entity for the �Ӱ�ԭ��One consortium — whose members include the general managers at each of �Ӱ�ԭ��'s four public television stations — a motion was approved to move the public television centralized feed of �Ӱ�ԭ��One for KUAC, KTOO and KYUK to �Ӱ�ԭ�� Public Telecommunications, Inc. (KAKM) in Anchorage. KUAC's general manager, Keith Martin, cast a dissenting vote. As a result, KUAC will no longer be a member of the �Ӱ�ԭ��One consortium of stations beginning at midnight, July 1, 2012.

The withdrawal from �Ӱ�ԭ��One will not change the television programming for residents of the Interior who receive their public television service from KUAC in Fairbanks or its translator communities of Healy, Delta and Nenana. What will change, effective July 1, is the public television service's identity - from �Ӱ�ԭ��One back to the original KUAC TV. The mission and quality of programming will stay the same.

Viewers of KTOO and KYUK will receive public television service from Anchorage beginning in July.

For more information, please contact KUAC at comments@kuac.org.