KUCB (FM)

KUCB
City of license	Unalaska, Alaska
Broadcast area	Alaska Bush
Branding	KUCB Unalaska
Frequency	89.7 (MHz) (also on HD Radio)
Format	Variety
ERP	660 watts
HAAT	-94 meters
Class	A
Facility ID	171909
Transmitter coordinates	53°52′35″N 166°32′24″W / 53.87639°N 166.54000°W / 53.87639; -166.54000
Owner	Unalaska Community Broadcasting
Website	kucb.org

KUCB is a non-commercial radio station in Unalaska, Alaska, broadcasting on 89.7 FM. It signed on in October 2008 to replace KIAL 1450 AM. KUCB generally broadcasts local programming, plus programming from National Public Radio, Native Voice One and Alaska Public Radio. The KIAL radio and television stations were formerly owned by the municipality of Unalaska; due to municipal cutbacks they now operate as an independent non-profit organisation dependent largely on individual donors. Shortly after its sell-off, KIAL, which only broadcast at 50 watts, moved to the FM dial as KUCB, with a stronger signal.

Television

KUCB also operates an 10-watt low-powered television station on channel 8, broadcasting local programming and information, plus a selection of shows from AlaskaOne. While some sources identify the station as K08IW,^[1] FCC records indicate that a station with these calls became KIAL-LP on August 5, 2005,^[2] with KUCB-LP assigned on August 15, 2008 to Unalaska Community Broadcasting Inc. in Dutch Harbor, Alaska to replace the KIAL-LP calls.

A license as KIAL-LP may have been active as recently as 2008, according to NTIA data,^[3] but the FCC's database had no record of any television stations using the K08IW, KIAL or KUCB calls, or of any stations operating in Dutch Harbor or Unalaska on TV channel 8 until 2014. Unalaska's K02HO (a former municipally owned transmitter) and K04KV (an ARCS repeater located at KIAL), are currently both licensed to the Alaska state government.

References

External links

Query the FCC's FM station database for KUCB

Radio-Locator information on KUCB

Radio stations in the Alaska Bush area

By FM frequency	88.1 89.3 89.7 (Unalaska) 89.7 (McCarthy) 90.3 91.9 (Barrow) 91.9 (St. Paul) 92.7 92.9 96.1 98.3 99.1 100.1 100.3 100.9 101.1

By AM frequency	560 640 670 680 720 780 830 850 900 910 930

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.500 (Kotzebue) 162.500 (Barrow) 162.500 (Nome)

By callsign	KAKN KBRW KBRW-FM KCUK KDLG KEDI KHKY KICY (AM) KICY-FM KIYU KNOM (AM) KNOM-FM KNSA KOTZ KQQN KRUP KRXX KSDP KUCB KUHB-FM KVOK KXES-LP KXKM KYKD KYUK (AM) KYUK-FM KZPA KWN30 KZZ53 WXJ62

Defunct	KAMP-LP KSKO (870 AM)

See also	KSKA (NPR, Anchorage)

Alaska radio markets Anchorage Other Alaska radio regions Fairbanks Juneau Kenai Alaska Bush Alaska Interior Southeast Alaska South Central Alaska See also List of radio stations in Alaska

Broadcast television in The Alaskan Bush Stations in areas that are outside of the three major centers (Anchorage, Juneau, Fairbanks) in Alaska

Local stations	ARCS (regionwide) K06OR-D (AMGTV, Seward) KUCB 8¹ (PBS, Unalaska) KMXT-LP 9 (PBS, Kodiak) KUBD-LP 11 (CBS/ION, Kodiak) KYUK-LD (15.1 KUAC-TV, 15.2 ARCS, 15.3 360 North, 15.4 KYUK/PBS, Bethel) ¹-- Status of station/license unknown; article links to radio station that operated this channel

Defunct stations	KYUK 4 (PBS, Bethel)

Alaska broadcast television areas by city Alaskan Bush Anchorage Fairbanks Juneau

NPR member stations in the state of Alaska

Stations	Anchorage KNBA Anchorage KSKA Barrow KBRW Barrow KBRW-FM Bethel KYUK Chevak KCUK Dillingham KDLG Fairbanks KUAC Galena KIYU Glennallen KXGA Haines KHNS Homer KBBI Juneau KRNN Juneau KTOO Juneau KXLL Kenai KDLL Ketchikan KRBD Kodiak KMXT Kodiak KODK Kotzebue KOTZ McCarthy KXKM Petersburg KFSK Sand Point KSDP Sitka KCAW St. Paul KUHB-FM Talkeetna KTNA Unalaska KUCB Valdez KCHU Wrangell KSTK

Defunct	McGrath KSKO

See also List of NPR stations

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in Alaska

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