KINY (800 AM) is a radio station licensed to

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, serving

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. Owned by Frontier Media, it broadcasts a classic hits format.

History

KINY began broadcasting on May 31, 1935, at 7:30p.m. It was located in the Goldstein Building until 1939, when the building was destroyed by fire on February 8, 1939. The Decker Building in downtown Juneau then served as KINY's headquarters for decades. The station moved into the building on October 28, 1940. The Decker Building burned down in June 1984. KINY and its sister station KSUP were bought by

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in June 2008. In October 2022, KINY, sister stations KSUP and KXXJ, and eight translators were sold to BTC USA Holdings Management, a company majority owned by Cliff Dumas' Broadcast 2 Podcast Inc., with a 20% minority stake held by Bryan Woodruff's Local First Media Group. After the sale, the station began to back away from its previous

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positioning in 2024, with Dumas stating that he wanted the station to have a "stronger musical identity". This resulted in the cancellation of its long-running call-in show ''Problem Corner'' (which was converted to a weekly

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in February 2024), and the layoffs of its two full-time news reporters in May 2024. Most of the station's online news content consisted primarily of wire stories, press releases, and articles created with

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. In October 2024, ''Problem Corner'' was revived as a weekday show; Dumas cited listener feedback for the reversal, and explained that "the intention has always been to bring it back in some form. It was just finding the right combination of web and social and broadcast to kind of bring it up to a modern standard." With Wade Bryson (who had hosted the show since 2008) stepping down due to health issues, KINY afternoon host Mike Lane would succeed him as host (the show would also be moved from its previous 11 a.m. time slot to 1 p.m. to become part of his existing shift), with plans for rotating co-hosts.

Programming

*
News of the North
' - news about

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. *
Capital Chat
', a local-events show for the

area hosted by Steve Holloway. *''Problem Corner'', a program hosted by Mike Lane that features listener phone-ins, typically for buying and selling goods, but also discussions of local news, events, and other topics. Running uninterrupted for around 70 years, it is Alaska's longest-running live radio show. Notable regular syndicated broadcasts include: *
The Mike Harvey Show
', a syndicated requested oldies show hosted by Mike Harvey. *

', hosted by Mike Harvey. *''American Top 40 with

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''. KINY carries news from

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and live sports from the

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and the

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Translators

In addition to the main station, KINY has an additional five translators to widen its broadcast area.

References

External links

Hometown Radio 800 and 103.5 KINY OnlineFCC History Cards for KINY
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