Mission Blog - KNOM Radio

A new blog (this blog!), and a new look to our online newsletter

Frequent visitors to our website may have noticed a new blog appear earlier this year. Our Mission Blog – that is, the blog you’re reading right now! – is home to stories, photos, inspirational spots, and updates detailing our radio station’s latest activities, and now, it’s also home to our newsletter, The Nome Static.

Starting with the Christmas 2012 issue and going forward, you’ll find every article from each new Static right here, on our Mission Blog. You’ll also be able to download a full PDF file of each issue – in color!

This blog also features additional stories not seen in our Static pages, including colorful moments of KNOM history: such as Rod Ewing carefully scaling, and painting, our transmitter tower in 1999 (pictured below).

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Going mobile

By KNOM on November 19, 2012 in Photos, The Nome Static, The Nome Static, 2012 (All), The Nome Static, Christmas 2012

Starting with the Christmas 2012 edition of our newsletter, the print versions of the Static will now feature a small barcode – what’s called a QR code – on the back of each issue. (The QR code pictured, for example, links to all of the articles in our Christmas 2012 newsletter.)

If you have a smartphone or tablet with a QR code reader, just scan the code: you’ll be able to read our latest newsletter wherever your mobile device can access the internet.

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Too small to be a burden

By KNOM on November 19, 2012 in Inspirational Spots, The Nome Static, The Nome Static, 2012 (All), The Nome Static, Christmas 2012

An inspirational spot from the Christmas 2012 edition of our newsletter, The Nome Static:

If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden.

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This just in!

By KNOM on November 19, 2012 in The Nome Static, The Nome Static, 2012 (All), The Nome Static, Christmas 2012

Just before the deadline for the Christmas 2012 Static (our newsletter), we received great news: KNOM had received two Goldie Awards at the annual convention of the Alaska Broadcasters Association!

The awards recognize KNOM news programs; you’ll find more details here, as well as in our forthcoming Year-End 2012 newsletter.

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Everything that we have…

By KNOM on November 19, 2012 in Inspirational Spots

Our inspirational spot for the week:

Since we all came into this world with nothing, everything that we have is a gift.

Weather reports, and two more Goldie awards

By KNOM on November 18, 2012 in Photos, Stories

Please pray with us for KNOM friends and family in areas struck by Hurricane Sandy. We pray for a rapid recovery for the devastated communities. May God watch over them as they rebuild.

As our temperatures approach zero, the blustery winds remind us how treacherous the weather can be — day or night. KNOM continues to broadcast timely winter weather warnings and watches every hour of the day to everyone in western Alaska. These critical reports save lives. Our thanks to all who make KNOM possible.

Wonderful news! The Alaska Broadcasters Association has bestowed upon KNOM two more Goldie Awards for broadcast excellence (pictured above). Both awards recognize work done by KNOM volunteer alumnus Matthew Smith, whose produced pieces for the KNOM news department won Goldies in the categories of “Service to Community” and “Service to Children.”

Both of these categories are highly valued in ABA’s annual awards. As always, we share these exciting honors with you and with everyone who makes our mission possible. To our donors, supporters, volunteers, staff, and community members: thank you, and congratulations!

November 1970: Waiting for the weather for tower construction

By KNOM on November 18, 2012 in History

November 22, 1970

After three weeks of blizzards and winds, the weather has briefly cleared.

Volunteers John Pfeifer and Tom Busch are belted to the AM tower at the 95-foot level, and eight others on the ground hoist the microwave receive antenna, which the pair install. Weather closes in again, and work can’t resume for two more days.

Full of answers

By KNOM on November 13, 2012 in Inspirational Spots, The Nome Static, The Nome Static, 2012 (All), The Nome Static, November 2012

An inspirational spot from the November 2012 edition of our newsletter, The Nome Static:

Heaven is full of answers to prayers that no one has bothered to pray.

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Ready for (more) construction!

By KNOM on November 13, 2012 in Photos, The Nome Static, The Nome Static, 2012 (All), The Nome Static, November 2012

Somewhere in the cargo containers you see above (recently unloaded from a massive barge shipment at Nome’s port) are the materials we’ll soon use to continue construction on the Tom and Florence Busch Digital Studios. We so appreciate all who have given their time, talents, and treasure to allow this project to move forward. The empty lot you see pictured at bottom will soon be filled with the skeleton of our new studio annex – thanks to you!