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Video: How would public broadcasting funding cuts affect rural Alaska?

Dean Peterson
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vox.com

A major KYUK funding source is under threat by a proposed budget cut from the Trump Administration. 

Funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) makes up about 60% of KYUK's annual budget. President Trump's proposed budget cuts CPB funding entirely. 

Without the funding KYUK would be, "a hollow shell of what it is today," said general manager Shane Iverson in a recent interview with Matteen Mokalla of Vox Media. 

Watch this Vox produced video to learn more about how cuts to KYUK funding would affect rural Alaskans.

 

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Katie Baldwin Basile is an independent photographer and multimedia storyteller from Bethel, Alaska.