KUAC is the University of Alaska Fairbanks' public broadcaster: KUAC FM 89.9, Alaska's first public radio station, and KUAC TV 9, the PBS member station for Fairbanks and Interior Alaska.
KUAC is the public radio and television service of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, broadcasting from the Fine Arts Complex on the UAF campus. KUAC FM signed on October 1, 1962 as the first public radio station in Alaska, and KUAC TV 9 followed in 1971 as the state's first public television station. KUAC TV is the only PBS member station in Alaska that is not part of Alaska Public Media.
KUAC FM 89.9 carries NPR, PRX and American Public Media programs alongside locally produced classical, jazz and folk music blocks, much of it hosted by a large pool of volunteers. Its 38 kW signal from Ester Dome is heard on translators across Interior Alaska, including Nome, Tok, Eagle, Healy, Nenana, Delta Junction and Bettles. KUAC TV broadcasts from Bender Mountain with translators in Delta, Glennallen, Healy and Nenana, carries PBS, PBS Kids and other digital subchannels, and offers KUAC Passport to members.
The stations are licensed to the University of Alaska Fairbanks, so hiring runs through University of Alaska Human Resources and the UA Careers site, where openings are posted under the UAF KUAC department. KUAC's staff of about 20 covers announcing and on-air hosting, broadcast engineering and operations, television production, membership and development, underwriting, and business office roles.
