KCAW
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KCAW or Raven Radio is a FM-broadcasting public radio station in Sitka, Alaska.
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[edit] Programming
Raven Radio is Sitka's only public radio station and offers a wide variety of programming. News for the station includes local news coming from Raven Radio's two paid reporters, Southeast Alaska news from CoastAlaska, statewide news from the Alaska Public Radio Network, national news from National Public Radio, and international news from the BBC. Raven Radio also subscribes to a variety of American Public Media and Public Radio International shows as well as its own variety of locally produced shows.
Raven Radio syndicates Encounters, a nature and wildlife-themed show hosted by Richard Nelson, statewide and also has a youth programming with Stupid and Contagious — a show run by two Sitka High School students.
[edit] Listening area
Raven Radio has a listening area, by the means of transmitters, that includes much of the western and northern portions of the Alaska Panhandle including Sitka, Angoon, Elfin Cove and the Fairweather fishing grounds, Kake, Pelican, Port Alexander, Tenakee Spring, and Yakutat. Raven Radio has roughly a 1,200-strong member base (listeners who donate money to the station).
[edit] See also
- KIFW, Sitka's other radio station
- List of radio stations in Alaska
