[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3651]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   SENATE RESOLUTION 459--CONGRATULATING KICY RADIO FOR 50 YEARS OF 
           SERVICE TO WESTERN ALASKA AND THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST

  Ms. MURKOWSKI (for herself and Mr. Begich) submitted the following 
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

                              S. Res. 459

       Whereas KICY Radio is owned and operated by the Arctic 
     Broadcasting Association, a nonprofit affiliate of the 
     Evangelical Covenant Church;
       Whereas KICY Radio has been broadcasting since April 17, 
     1960, on an AM frequency of 850 kilohertz;
       Whereas KICY Radio is primarily staffed by volunteers;
       Whereas KICY Radio broadcasts from Nome, Alaska to more 
     than 40 Alaska Native villages throughout the Seward 
     Peninsula and Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta;
       Whereas KICY Radio serves the Chukotkan, Kamchatkan, and 
     Siberian regions of the Russian Far East for 5 hours each 
     day, 7 days each week, from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m.;
       Whereas the signal strength of KICY Radio has expanded from 
     5,000 watts to 50,000 watts during the past 50 years;
       Whereas 1 of the most popular KICY Radio programs over the 
     50-year history of the station is ``Ptarmigan Telegraph,'' 
     which allows listeners to send in brief messages to be read 
     on the air for friends and relatives; and
       Whereas, even today, when much of the region served by KICY 
     Radio is connected by telephone, ``Ptarmigan Telegraph'' 
     remains a vital means of connecting the people of western 
     Alaska: Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) congratulates KICY Radio for 50 years of service to 
     western Alaska and the Russian Far East;
       (2) recognizes the volunteer staff who have kept KICY Radio 
     on the air for the past 50 years; and
       (3) wishes the staff of KICY Radio well with the continued 
     efforts of the staff to serve the people of western Alaska 
     and the Russian Far East with culturally relevant 
     programming.

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