KTNA 88.9 FM

KTNA 88.9 FM is a community radio station in Talkeetna, Alaska, licensed to Talkeetna Community Radio, Inc., a local nonprofit incorporated in 1988. The station signed on in January 1993 from a log cabin studio on Second Street in downtown Talkeetna and today broadcasts from its own building on the same street. It is an NPR member station.

Its mission is to enrich and connect the communities of the Upper Susitna Valley through informational and cultural programming. The signal reaches from Willow north nearly to Cantwell, with the best reception in Talkeetna, Trapper Creek and Susitna, an area of about 4,500 year-round residents whose population grows substantially in summer. Listeners elsewhere follow the station through its online stream, website and social media.

KTNA broadcasts 24 hours a day, pairing programs from NPR and other national and independent distributors with local news, public affairs shows such as Su Valley Voice and Denali Report, educational programming, music from local volunteer DJs, and continuous emergency broadcast capacity. Volunteers remain the core of the station, and local news stories also reach statewide and national public media outlets.

A small staff runs the station: a general manager, a program director, a communications and development coordinator, and a news department of a news producer and reporters who work with freelancers, interns and community journalism volunteers. KTNA posts openings on ktna.org, typically in local news reporting and production, membership, underwriting and events.