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BEFORE — This prefabricated dwelling was first erected in
1900 by gold prospectors. Builder Spencer Strand had the
vision to see what a practical home it could be for a KICY Staff
family, with a little work and ingenuity.
‘Voice of The Arctic’
Plans Balanced
Program Schedule
The 5,000-watt radio voice for
Nome, Station KICY, which will
soon be broadcasting on its as
signed frequency of 850 kc., is
planning a schedule of varied
programs that will be attractive
to listeners with varying interests.
Although the station receives its
major support from a denomina
tional source and its avowed pri
mary purpose is the presentation
of the “good news” to be found
in the Bible, this by no means
signifies that all the programming
will be religious in nature. In
actual fact only a small percen
tage of KICY’s broadcast time
will be devoted to religious pro
grams.
In conformity with the Federal
Communications Commission li
censing requirement that the sta
tion operate “in the public in
terest, convenience and necessity,”
KICY will carry a “balanced”
schedule so arranged as to be
informative, educational, enter
taining and inspiring. This will
include news, music, sports, dra
matic features, programs for the
homemaker and for the children.
News will play an important
part of the KICY broadcast day.
With Associated Press as the
main source for national and in
ternational news, KICY will sup
plement this service with an em
phasis on local and regional'news
and news of Alaska.
Policy Prohibits Rock 'N Roll
A wide variety of music is in
cluded in the more than 1,000
long-play albums found in the
KICY record library. The station
will serve the musical interests
that range all the way from the
Classics to country and western
tunes, including band, pops con
cert, easy listening, and religious
music. A good part of the broad
cast day will be devoted to music,
with some programs given over to
selections which listeners request.
Good Practice Standards
Serves as Guide for
Station Presentations
Station KICY has pledged ad
herence to the Standards of Good
Practice for Radio Broadcasters,
and will use these rules as guides
in its programming and adver
tising, Art*Zylstra, General Man
ager, announced this week.
The Standards were written by
the National Association of Broad
casters, of which Station KICY
is a member.
The Standards establish prin
ciples which guide broadcasters
in their preparation and presenta
tion of news, public issues, poli
tical broadcasting, religious pro
grams, dramatic and children’s
programs, and advertising.
To publicize that it is a “Good
Practices Station,” KICY will dis
play 'a special symbol at its stu
dios and broadcast a musical sym
bol, arranged and orchestrated by
the noted conductor, Percy Faith.
Program policy prohibits the use
of "rock and roll”'type records.
A segment of time just before
the noon hour is being appor
tioned to educational broadcasts
intended to serve our local schools
and BIA schools up and down the
Alaskan West Coast. Following the
noon hour there will be a block
of time with programs for trie
homemaker. This will include
music, poetry, a continued novel,
hints for the housewife and a
time of inspiration.
Saturday morning programs are
designed for the juvenile listener.
Also at 4:15 daily there will be
a children’s section in the sched
ule. This will include adventure
stories, music and some religious
programs.
Sports Prominent
Sports will be given a prom
inent position in the KICY broad
cast schedule. The station will
endeavor to cover local sporting
events by use of remote equip
ment, and will also keep listen
ers informed on the day’s hap
penings in sports in other areas.
The total effort of he broad
cast schedule will be in the direc
tion of serving the public. A gen
uine effort will be made to give
adequate coverage to local public
issues of import. Matters of civic
interest will be discussed by
qualified individuals or panels.
There will be an effort made to
interview prominent visitors to
our city.
Although most of the KICY
schedule will consist of English
language programming, it is
hoped to be possible to present
also a daily segment of programs
in various Eskimo dialects.
Radio reaches people with a
great variety of listening interests.
It is the feeling of the KICY ad
ministration and staff that these
interests will be well satisfied
through programming to be
heard on KICY.
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MIDWINTER INSTALLATION
of KICY program line and re
mote control cable.
SPENCER STRAND. Supervisor
of KICY building construction.
Volunteers Build
Radio Building and
Broadcast Tower
A corps of missionaries and vol
unteer workers, under the capable
direction of missionary builder
Spencer Strand, have been respon
sible for the major construction
of buildings to be used in the op
eration of Radio Station KICY,
reports Art Zylstra, manager of
the new station.
The volunteer workers all came
from the West Coast of the United
States, and all were qualified to
deal with spme important phase
of the construction program. First
to come was! a carpenter and cab
inetmaker of many years’ exper
ience .from the Seattle area. A
Los Angeles schoolteacher and
his wife left California the day
school terminated, to give their
summer vacation to the project.
During a time when most Alaska
construction was harmfully de
layed by labor problems, it was
possible for the construction of
buildings for the station to pro
ceed. This was important, because
the Construction Permit issued
for the completion of the station
by the FCC, allowed only six
months in which to perform the
task.
The builders were under the
direct supervision of Spencer
Strand, Covenant missionary re
sponsible for all building con
struction in Alaska for the de
nomination. Mr. Strand, well
known in the Seward Peninsula
and Yukon area for his carpen
try abilities, received his manual
arts training at the Putnam Tech
nical School near his home at
Woodstock, Conn. He is experi
enced in the peculiarities of
Alaska construction, having
served the mission in this area
since 1951.
Similar crews of volunteer
workmen, several of whom paid
their own passage to Nome and
return, worked under the direction
of technical expert Ralph Fondell
in the erection of the KICY tower
on the transmitting site, and the
reassembly and installation of the
transmitter and other electronic
equipment. These included such
highly qualified electronics and
electrical men as an employe of
the East Bay Municipal Utilities
District, an electrical trouble
shooter for the City of Oakland,
Calif., an electronics development
engineer for Hughes Aircraft
Corporation, and an electronics
engineer associated with the Uni
versity of California Radiation
Laboratory at Berkeley, Calif.
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AFTER — Few Nome residents would recognize this is the
"shack" from which it was converted. Another home, plus
transmitter building, power building, and studio-office building,
were built during the summer months.
New Station
Represents Large
Investment in State
Headquarters of the Evengelical
Covenant Church of America, lo
cated in Chicago, announced re
cently that the investment in capi
tal, assets for Radio Station KICY
have mounted to more than $100,
000. This investment is repre
sented in electronic equipment,
towejr, studio building, transmit
ter and power building, 'diesel
generating equipment, staff homes,
land, travel and promotional ex
penses and consultant fees.
Starting, off with an initial
$15,000 allotted to the Alaska en
deavor from the Covenant’s dia
mond Jubilee Fund, the project
has received support from denom
inational entities across the 48
southern states and here in Alas
ka. Many churches have placed
the station in their operating bud
get to receive a specified amount
to help meet operational expenses.
A number of youth groups, Sun
day school classes and DVBS
schools have taken on individual
projects such as a microphone,
tape recorder, or clock for the
studio. The Covenant Women’s
Auxiliary has assumed the under
writing of the cost of the KICY
transmitter for their support pro
ject for the year. Individual gifts
have varied all the way from one
dollar to ten thousand dollars.
A number of individuals and
groups not associated with the
Covenant have given substantial
financial support to the project.
Outstanding among these was a
notification received from a non
denominational church fellowship
in Saudi Arabia indicating it was
sending a substantial gift to assist
the station in becoming a reality.
Other contributions have been
received from individuals and
churches in an area from Boston
to Los Angeles.
It will be necessary that the
station have a continuing support
of this nature, since the commer
cial operations of the station in
the Seward Peninsula area will
not provide sufficient income to
cover costs.
Since 1910, more than 26,000,
000 boys and leaders have been
active in the Boy Scouts of
America.
White Alice Chief
Presides at Birth of
New Radio Baby
Lloyd Sundstrom, employed by
the Federal Electric Company to
capably supervise the functions
of the Anvil Mountain White
Alice installation at Nome, has
been one of the prime movers in
bringing a radio station to Nome,
and was present in the transmitter
building when the first signals
went out into the ether in equip
ment tests conducted last week.
Sundstrom, with long experience
in the field of communication and
broadcast radio, has for many
years cherished the fond hope
i that this area of Alaska might
have a radio station of its own,
devoted to the service of the local
j citizenry and assisting in the eco
nomic development of the Seward
Peninsula and the entire west
coastal area of Alaska.
Since Mr. Sundstrom is an ac
tive leader in the local activities
of the Covenant Church, it was
natural that he should lend en
couragement to plans on the part
of the denomination to install such
a station at Nome. First engineer
ing information regarding trans
mitting sites, and other important
technical information, was sup
plied by Lloyd Sundstrom when
KICY was still in a very nebulous
planning stage.
Now that KICY has become a
reality, and has actually broad
cast test signals, Mr. Sundstrom
was heard to say recently, “It's
like a dream come true!” Sund
strom’s voice was the second to
be heard in a station identification
over the new broadcast facility.
Currently, he is working in his
spare time assisting station en
gineer Ralph Fondell in conduct
ing the exhaustive equipment
tests that must be accomplished to
establish “proof-of-performance’
before the FCC will grant permis
sion to begin regular programs.
It should be possible to complete
thes* tests in the very near fu
ture and to begin transmitting pro
grams on a regular schedule. In
terested listeners may occasionally
hear test signals and station iden
tifications on 850 kc. during tests.
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I — 850 kc. — RICHARD DE HUN
I—---1 Associate Teacher
RADIO BIBLE CLASS program
RALPH FONDELL (1) and
WILLIAM HARTMAN, during
KICY tower erection. Tower is
- over 250 feet high.