KSEW (Sitka, Alaska)

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KSEW (1400 AM) was a radio station in Sitka, Alaska.

The frequency began in 1949 as KALA. [1] On September 13, 1954, The 1400 AM frequency was reactivated as KSEW. KSEW was a low-power, multilingual radio station that broadcast in both English and Tlingit. [2] One of the employees of KSEW was Tlingit scholar Walter Soboleff. [3] It was shut down on June 2, 1969, with its license deleted one week later on June 9, 1969. [4] [5] In its early years, KSEW simulcasted programs with KIFW.

References

  1. ↑ "KALA on Air" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 19, 1949. Retrieved September 23, 2014.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. ↑ Wilber, Del Quentin; Lisa Rein (May 3, 2012). "The sleuth, the Babe and a radio mystery". The Washington Post. p. A1.
  3. ↑ Stolpe, Klas (June 22, 2011). "Noted Tlingit elder Walter Soboleff dies". Juneau Empire . Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  4. ↑ Leffingwell, Robert Down (1983). "KSEW". Causes and Indicators of Commercial AM Radio Station Failure: 1962–1976 (Dissertation). The Ohio State University. p. 485. ProQuest   303192463.
  5. ↑ "Sitka station closing down". Fairbanks Daily News-Miner . May 31, 1969 – via newspapers.com.
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