State budget cuts hitting Interior’s main public media company

The state’s fiscal situation is taking a toll on one of Alaska’s longest operating and largest public media companies.
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KUAC, which brings public radio and television programming to Fairbanks, the Interior and communities across rural Alaska, is scaling back its operations.
“The timeline is: immediately,” General Manager Keith Martin said in a phone interview Friday.
KUAC is governed by the University of Alaska, and according to Martin, diminished funding from