Josh Edge, Alaska Public Media
Alaska News Nightly: June 8, 2012
Police ID Body Found in Near Island Channel; IEGs Introduce New Element To Alaska Campaign Funding; Fairbanks Leaders, Air Force Officials Discuss F-16 Move; Anchorage Braces For F-16 Transfer; JBER Soldier Killed In Afghanistan; Mudslides, Washouts Close Alaska Highway; Fish and Game Anticipates Subsistence Restrictions Along Yukon River; Five Alaska Native Tribes To Receive Clean Energy Help; AK: Hunting for Ferns; 300 Villages: Pilot Station
Chris Isaak Live! Beyond the Sun
Taped before a live audience on the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS soundstage, this new PBS special showcases Chris Isaak’s most beloved hits and his personal tribute to the glory days of the legendary Memphis Sun Studio and the music created by his heroes in that famous room.
KAKM: Friday, 6/8 at 9:30pm
Alaska News Nightly: June 7, 2012
Divers Unable to Find Lost Bag of PCB-Contaminated Dirt; Long-Standing Land Dispute Should Be Settled Soon; Missing Bison Found Near Chena Lakes; Lightning Blamed For Denali Park Fire; Redistricting Board Chairman Says Fair Plan In Place For Year’s Elections; Tok May Be First Alaska Community Fully Powered By Biomass; Fish Processor Won’t Reopen This Summer After Crash; Calista Corporation Reschedules Shareholder Meeting; Celebration 2012 Underway In Juneau; Hunter Rescued After Traveling Across Bristol Bay On Ice Floe
CREATE Schedule for June
Tune into KAKM channel, CREATE for some of your favorite how-to shows! CREATE can be found in Anchorage on 7.2 or GCI Cable 94 and is also available in the Mat-Su on MTA Channel 307.
Day in Our Bay
In October 2011, Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) gave away video cameras to qualifying BBNC shareholders in the region who agreed to use them to take part in a region-wide, interactive, multimedia initiative. The camera giveaway was part of “Day in Our Bay,” a community video event combining digital tools, training and a powerful platform to provide Bristol Bay’s rural populations an innovative way to share their voices, views and values with the world.
KAKM: Thursday, 6/7 at 10:30pm
Alaska News Nightly: June 6, 2012
Bill Would Force Annual Lease Sale In NPR-A; ASD Employee Charged With Embezzling Over $100,000; Chief Justice Dana Fabe Prepares For Third Term; UA Board of Regents To Accept 2013 Budget; Five Boats Busted With Female Crab; DNA Could Provide Connection Between Tlingits, Haidas and Other Tribal Groups; Fairbanks Housing Program For Chronic Inebriates Moving Forward; Commemorating the Katmai-Novarupta Eruption Centennial
Easy Yoga for Easing Pain
Joint pain is the major complaint of millions of individuals who suffer from arthritis, who’ve injured themselves or who perform jobs that require some form of repetitive action. All joint pain sufferers share a common observation: the real pain of joint pain is that it is unrelenting. According to yoga expert Peggy Cappy, yoga can be a great first line of defense. In this new program, she demonstrates how yoga can increase flexibility, reduce joint and muscular aches and pains and even combat fatigue.
KAKM: Wednesday, 6/6 at 10:00pm
Hundreds of Anchorage Residents Line Up To View Venus Transit
For the second time this century, Venus is making its way across the sun. Alaska and Hawaii are among the best spots to view the transit in the world. And in Anchorage, hundreds of people are lining up behind telescopes to see it, including an astronomer at the University of Alaska.
Alaska News Nightly: June 5, 2012
Shaeffer Cox Takes The Stand In Militia Trial; New DNA Test Could Represent a ‘Revolution’ for Colon Cancer; Bristol Bay Watershed Draft Assessment Hearing Draws Nearly 900 People; FERC Concerns Slow Dam Project; Letter of Intent Moves UAA, Seattle University School of Law Partnership Forward; Hundreds of Anchorage Residents Line Up To View Venus Transit; Venus Transit Draws Big Crowd In Fairbanks; Holland America Cruise Lines Eliminating Three Alaska Stops
Soundcheck: Superfrequency
The band members of Superfrequency are often seen backing many other musicians throughout Alaska. In this concert and interview taped at Tap Root in Anchorage, Superfrequency brings home the electro-funk jams that started it all.
KAKM: Tuesday, 6/5 at 7:00pm
Alaska News Nightly: June 4, 2012
EPA Holding Bristol Bay Watershed Draft Assessment Public Comment Hearings; F-16 Squadron Move Would Seriously Affect North Star Borough School District; Remains Repatriated To St. Paul; Group Unhappy With Redistricting Board’s Amended Proclamation Plan; Most Elections Find Challengers As Election Lists Close; Health Care Access Complicates Issues For Expecting Rural Mothers; Y-K Delta Fish Buyer Plans To Market Salmon Outside Alaska; Launching The Trip Of A Lifetime; Aleutian Island’s Unangan Name Restored
British Beat
This MY MUSIC special travels to London and around the UK to the places where the British Beat was born. The program features a mix of rare archival full-length performance films mixed with live performances from the Zombies, Wayne Fontana, Eric Burdon and the Animals, Gerry and the Pacemakers and many more — including sets from Chad and Jeremy and Peter Noone. Petula Clark hosts.
KAKM: Sunday, 6/3 at 7:30pm
PA’s Fiddle
PA’S FIDDLE is an intimate evening of music and songs selected from the writings of Laura Ingalls Wilder, beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books. This was the music that young Laura heard her Pa play on his fiddle, accompanying her family during their much celebrated adventures on America’s vast prairies in the years just after the Civil War.
KAKM: Saturday, 6/2 at 8:00pm
300 Villages: Seward
What community do marathon runners, dog mushers and railroad buffs have in common? If you guessed Seward, you’re right. The city is located at the tip of the Kenai Peninsula on beautiful Resurrection Bay, and Friday, Seward celebrates its one hundredth birthday.
Alaska News Nightly: June 1, 2012
Air Force Releases Eielson F-16 Movement Impact Report; Hilcorp Plans To Increase Cook Inlet Energy Production; Family Of Drowned Teenager Suing Haines Borough; Subsistence Restrictions Likely On Kuskokwim River; Sitka Assembly To Ask NPFMC To Lower Allowable Trawl Bycatch; AK: Birding; 300 Villages: Seward
June Schedule Highlights
KAKM, Channel 7 television, is pleased to continue bringing quality programming to your home. In this month’s prime time lineup you will find new programming as well as some of your old favorites.
Buddy Holly: Listen To Me
Taped before a live audience on what would have been Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday (September 7, 2011), this extraordinary concert features a once-in-a-lifetime line-up of three generations of top recording artists performing the music of Buddy Holly, one of rock’s most enduring legends and versatile singer-songwriter-performers of the rock ‘n’ roll era.
KAKM: Friday, 6/1 at 9:40pm
Alaska News Nightly: May 31, 2012
Judge Refuses To Dismiss Charges In Militia Trial; Chefornak VPSO Accused Of Sexual Abuse Of A Minor; Gas Storage Facility Opens In Kenai; Dana Fabe Selected To Be Chief Justice; Many Legislative Seats Uncontested As Deadline Looms; Comeau Reflects On Education Career; Fairbanks-Area Residents Ponder Pros, Cons Of Healy Coal Plant; ‘True North’ Showcases Alaskan Contemporary Art At Anchorage Museum
American Road To Victory: The Americans in the Bulge
Feel the bitter cold and experience the merciless fighting the G-I’s endured against a mighty German onslaught during the Battle of the Bulge.
KAKM: Thursday, 5/31 at 8:00pm
Alaska News Nightly: May 30, 2012
Alaska Supreme Court Denies Petition To Delay Candidate Filing Deadline; Anchorage Assembly Chair Appoints New Clerk; Aleutian Island’s Unangan Name Restored; Parnell Signs Bill Creating Alaska Native Language Preservation And Advisory Council; Governor Signs One Bill Encouraging Movies, Gas And Oil, Fuel Tanks, And High Tech; EPA Holding Public Hearing On Bristol Bay Mining Risk Assessment; Fish And Game Announces Ninilchik River Restrictions