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KSKA

Public radio station in Anchorage, Alaska

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ6337812 ↗
Source-derived summary

KSKA (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial radio station in Anchorage, Alaska, United States. The station airs public radio programming from the NPR network and the BBC World Service. KSKA also airs some locally originated programming.

Translators

KSKA makes use of broadcast translators to increase the coverage of the main station on 91.1 MHz.

Editorial summary

“KSKA” enters the record as public radio station in Anchorage, Alaska. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what KSKA, Public and radio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. Its strongest next move is a source search built around KSKA, Public and radio.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“KSKA” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, KSKA, Public and radio provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6337812. VIAF identifies the subject as 146934861. The Library of Congress control number is no2004115076. Authority coordinates are 61.422, -149.874. 2 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “KSKA”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow KSKA primary sources, KSKA archive and KSKA research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “KSKA”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “KSKA” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.