Alaska Public Media is a nonprofit public media organization in Anchorage that operates KSKA public radio and KAKM-TV, the NPR and PBS stations for Southcentral Alaska, and stewards the statewide Alaska Public Media News network.
Alaska Public Media (AKPM) is a nonprofit, publicly supported media organization based in Anchorage that serves communities across Alaska through radio, television and digital platforms. Its mission is to inform, educate and connect Alaskans with trusted news, educational content and stories that reflect the state's cultures and communities.
The organization operates KSKA, the NPR station at 91.1 FM in Anchorage and 91.9 FM in Girdwood, and KAKM-TV, the PBS station for Southcentral Alaska, which carries PBS, PBS KIDS and Create TV over the air on channels 7 and 11, online and on streaming platforms and apps. It stewards the statewide Alaska Public Media News network and shares television services with KTOO in Juneau and KYUK in Bethel; together these reach about 97 percent of Alaska's population. Since 2021 it has also managed the Alaska Rural Communications Service (ARCS), which supports television service in rural communities.
Local programming includes Alaska News Nightly, Talk of Alaska, Line One: Your Health Connection, Outdoor Explorer, Alaska Economic Report, Hometown, Alaska and State of Art on radio and as podcasts, and the television and digital series Alaska Insight, Indie Alaska and Every Little Bit. AKPM works with partners including the Alaska Community Foundation, United Way Anchorage, the Anchorage Public Library, the Anchorage Museum and the Anchorage School District.
AKPM traces its roots to KAKM-TV, which signed on in 1975. KAKM merged with KSKA public radio, first launched in 1978, in 1994 to form Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc., the nonprofit that holds the stations' licenses, and in 2004 the organization merged with the Alaska Public Radio Network (APRN) to expand its statewide journalism. Since federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ended in 2025, it has operated on community support.
Alaska Public Media hires reporters and producers for radio, television and digital, video production staff, broadcast engineers, development and corporate sponsorship staff, and administration, finance and human resources staff, based at its Anchorage offices.
