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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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KINY
KINY (800 AM) is a radio station licensed to Juneau, Alaska, serving southeast Alaska. Owned by Local First Media Group., it broadcasts a classic hits format.

History

KINY began broadcasting on May 31, 1935, at 7:30 p.m. It was located in the Goldstein Building until 1939, when the building was destroyed by fire on February 8, 1939. The Decker Building in downtown Juneau then served as KINY's headquarters for decades. The station moved into the building on October 28, 1940. The Decker Building burned down in June 1984.

KINY and its sister station KSUP were bought by Alaska Broadcast Communications in June 2008.

In October 2022, KINY, sister stations KSUP and KXXJ, and eight translators were sold to Cliff Dumas' Local First Media Group for $1.3 million. After the sale, the station began to back away from its previous full service positioning in 2024, with Dumas stating that he wanted the station to have a "stronger musical identity". This resulted in the cancellation of its long-running call-in show Problem Corner (which was converted to a podcast), and the layoffs of its two full-time news reporters in May 2024. Most of the station's online news content now consisted primarily of wire stories, press releases, and articles created with generative AI.

Programming

  • News of the North - news about Alaska.
  • Capital Chat, a local-events show for the Juneau, Alaska area hosted by Steve Holloway.
  • Problem Corner, a tradio program hosted by Wade Bryson. Until its cancellation in February 2024 after a roughly 70-year run, it was Alaska's longest-running radio show.

Notable regular syndicated broadcasts include:

KINY carries news from ABC Radio News and live sports from the Seattle Mariners and the Seattle Seahawks.

Translators

Logo used until June 2008.
Logo from June 2008 until late 2012.

In addition to the main station, KINY has an additional five translators to widen its broadcast area.

Broadcast translators for KINY
Call sign Frequency City of license FID FCC info
K280DX 103.9 FM Angoon, Alaska 821 LMS
K279AF 103.7 FM Haines, Alaska 82616 LMS
K280ED 103.9 FM Hoonah, Alaska 777 LMS
K235DA 94.9 FM Juneau, Alaska 202194 LMS
K278GE 103.5 FM Kake, Alaska 32949 LMS
K284AM 104.7 FM Skagway, Alaska 137761 LMS