Talkeetna is home to 300 folks, a passel of sled dogs and KTNA, a community radio station that consists of two log cabins and a satellite dish. There is no local paper.
Some homes are without phone service.
Five time zones and 4,200 miles away, in Washington, D.C., public broadcasting met its Denali. A political avalanche changed our future. In 1995, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting landed in between a Congress mandated to re-think how tax dollars should be spent and an Administration determined to reinvent government. The intent was to ensure that publicly funded organizations, like CPB, operate more efficiently and effectively. Some in Congress believed that public broadcasting could prosper without taxpayer funds.