Krbd Information

KRBD strives to inform, educate, entertain, and engage our listeners through national, state, and local news broadcasts, with a variety of national shows that not only entertain, but educate, as well as an eclectic mix of locally produced music shows. We air weekly community interviews during Morning Edition covering a wide range of topics from safety measures to child care, public health concerns to gardening, to events that the public can attend or how they can volunteer their time and skills. Our local City Council meetings, Borough Assembly meetings and school board meeting are covered. During election season we broadcast candidate forums and open our phones so that community members can call in with their questions. All this is broadcast on the air, featured on our website, offered on Facebook and Twitter, and streamed from our website. Our closest collaboration is with the other CoastAlaska stations where we share news stories, training for our development directors, managers, and programmers, website maintenance and upgrades, and strategies for delivering the best service to listeners. Our news stories are also available for the Alaska Public Radio News' nightly broadcasts, which reaches listeners across the state. As the LP1 for our listening area we continue to sit at the table of our Local Emergency Planning Committee-LEPC- which meets monthly. Public safety for island communities such as ours is of the utmost importance. The station became involved with a relatively new group called the "Strengthening Non-Profit Collaborative" composed of many local non-profit organizations sharing resources, ideas and people with the goal of educating the community about their services and the value of those services not only socially, but also economically. We continue to record and air fifth grade students' social studies messages about better behaviors and conflict resolution. As one adult remarked, "I've benefited from those messages!" Community non-profit leaders meet together monthly to discuss ways to ...