Post by blackcrowheart on Aug 30, 2006 15:54:52 GMT -5
Just a click away from home
Posted: August 23, 2006
by: Tanya Lee <http://www.indiancountry.com/author.cfm?id=489>
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courtesy Meeker County; logo courtesy Native Voice One NV1 takes over as
major distributor of Native radio programs
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The voice of Native America has become a lot
stronger with the July 1 launch of Native Voice One. Based in
Albuquerque, NV1 is already streaming Native programming around the
world 24/7 via its Web site, www.nv1.org, and distributing material to
35 American Indian radio stations across the United States and Canada,
as well as introducing mainstream radio outlets to Native programming.
Its offerings include Koahnic Broadcast Corporation productions,
starting with the two best-known and longest-running Native radio
programs in the country, National Native News and Native America
Calling. Add Earthsongs (a weekly examination of contemporary Native
music and artists), UnderCurrents (an eclectic mix of music with a
strong foundation in indigenous/roots, rock, blues, folk and world
music), Native Sounds-Native Voices (traditional and contemporary Native
music), AlterNative Voices (Native music, interviews and news reports
relevant to Indian country), Wisdom of the Elders (American Indian
cultural magazine radio programs featuring tribal elders, historians,
storytellers, artists, song carriers and environmentalists from 13
Native nations living in the Bitterroot Mountains and along the Columbia
River), Voices from the Circle (a weekly program of Native news, music,
issues, entertainment and storytelling from reservations and urban
communities) and Reach the Rez Radio (high energy, hip hop and mix/talk
show) - and the foundation of a growing cultural movement is taking
shape.
The service's ability to stream programs on its Web site means that not
only will non-Native people be exposed to Native perspectives, music and
broadcasting, but that Native people who do not have access to local
tribal stations because they live in urban areas will have a point of
contact with what's happening on the reservations.
NV1 is a division of Koahnic, an Alaska Native media organization based
in Anchorage. With a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and the support of National Public Radio's Public Radio Satellite
System, NV1 has replaced American Indian Radio on Satellite as the
nation's major distributor of Native programming produced by tribal
stations, radio stations such as Denver's KUVO and Hoopa, California's
KIDE, independent producers and Koahnic itself.
Susan Braine, who started her radio career in 1978 at Zuni Pueblo radio
station KSHI, is the chief operating officer for national programs under
Koahnic.
Braine, Assiniboine/Hunkpapa Sioux, grew up on the Northern Cheyenne
Reservation in southeastern Montana and is enrolled on the Fort Peck
Assiniboine Sioux Reservation. She has spent nearly 30 years working in
Native radio. In addition to KSHI-FM in Zuni, N.M., she has managed
KMXT-FM on Kodiak Island, Ala., and KSKO-AM in McGrath, Ala. She was
instrumental in the on-air debut and initial management of the Three
Affiliated Tribes' KMHA-FM in Newtown, N.D.; KNBA-FM in Anchorage, Ala.;
and, most recently, Hopi radio KUYI-FM in northern Arizona.
Over the years, Braine has been a major influence in the development of
Native radio. She served as the first network manager for AIROS and on
the boards of the Alaska Public Radio Network, Native American Public
Telecommunications Inc. and the Public Radio Satellite System's
Distribution and Interconnection Committee. She presently sits on the
board of the Native American Journalists Association. Braine has been
with the national production and distribution unit in Albuquerque for
more than five years.
''We are just so thrilled to offer this new service to listeners around
the world and to local Native communities,'' she said. Braine also
explained that NV1 will be working with independent producers who are
interested in developing material for national and international
audiences. That is one of the most important ways NV1 can foster the
dissemination of Native voices and viewpoints around the world and
nurture up-and-coming artists and broadcasters.
Other team members at NV1 include Burton Poley, Hopi, who trained under
Braine at KUYI and worked in operations at the Flagstaff public radio
station KNAU, and is now NV1's network manager; Nola Daves Moses, who
serves as program manager; Camille Lacapa, Hopi/Ojibway, who is the
station and audience relations manager; and David Newberger, Coeur
d'Alene, NV1's newest hire, who will be the Web producer. David Burnett,
Hupa, helped develop the Web site and is responsible for NV1's dramatic
logo.
Posted: August 23, 2006
by: Tanya Lee <http://www.indiancountry.com/author.cfm?id=489>
www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413493
<http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096413493>
Click to Enlarge <http://www.indiancountry.com/pix/1096413493_large.jpg>
<http://www.indiancountry.com/pix/1096413493_large.jpg> Tower photo
courtesy Meeker County; logo courtesy Native Voice One NV1 takes over as
major distributor of Native radio programs
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The voice of Native America has become a lot
stronger with the July 1 launch of Native Voice One. Based in
Albuquerque, NV1 is already streaming Native programming around the
world 24/7 via its Web site, www.nv1.org, and distributing material to
35 American Indian radio stations across the United States and Canada,
as well as introducing mainstream radio outlets to Native programming.
Its offerings include Koahnic Broadcast Corporation productions,
starting with the two best-known and longest-running Native radio
programs in the country, National Native News and Native America
Calling. Add Earthsongs (a weekly examination of contemporary Native
music and artists), UnderCurrents (an eclectic mix of music with a
strong foundation in indigenous/roots, rock, blues, folk and world
music), Native Sounds-Native Voices (traditional and contemporary Native
music), AlterNative Voices (Native music, interviews and news reports
relevant to Indian country), Wisdom of the Elders (American Indian
cultural magazine radio programs featuring tribal elders, historians,
storytellers, artists, song carriers and environmentalists from 13
Native nations living in the Bitterroot Mountains and along the Columbia
River), Voices from the Circle (a weekly program of Native news, music,
issues, entertainment and storytelling from reservations and urban
communities) and Reach the Rez Radio (high energy, hip hop and mix/talk
show) - and the foundation of a growing cultural movement is taking
shape.
The service's ability to stream programs on its Web site means that not
only will non-Native people be exposed to Native perspectives, music and
broadcasting, but that Native people who do not have access to local
tribal stations because they live in urban areas will have a point of
contact with what's happening on the reservations.
NV1 is a division of Koahnic, an Alaska Native media organization based
in Anchorage. With a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
and the support of National Public Radio's Public Radio Satellite
System, NV1 has replaced American Indian Radio on Satellite as the
nation's major distributor of Native programming produced by tribal
stations, radio stations such as Denver's KUVO and Hoopa, California's
KIDE, independent producers and Koahnic itself.
Susan Braine, who started her radio career in 1978 at Zuni Pueblo radio
station KSHI, is the chief operating officer for national programs under
Koahnic.
Braine, Assiniboine/Hunkpapa Sioux, grew up on the Northern Cheyenne
Reservation in southeastern Montana and is enrolled on the Fort Peck
Assiniboine Sioux Reservation. She has spent nearly 30 years working in
Native radio. In addition to KSHI-FM in Zuni, N.M., she has managed
KMXT-FM on Kodiak Island, Ala., and KSKO-AM in McGrath, Ala. She was
instrumental in the on-air debut and initial management of the Three
Affiliated Tribes' KMHA-FM in Newtown, N.D.; KNBA-FM in Anchorage, Ala.;
and, most recently, Hopi radio KUYI-FM in northern Arizona.
Over the years, Braine has been a major influence in the development of
Native radio. She served as the first network manager for AIROS and on
the boards of the Alaska Public Radio Network, Native American Public
Telecommunications Inc. and the Public Radio Satellite System's
Distribution and Interconnection Committee. She presently sits on the
board of the Native American Journalists Association. Braine has been
with the national production and distribution unit in Albuquerque for
more than five years.
''We are just so thrilled to offer this new service to listeners around
the world and to local Native communities,'' she said. Braine also
explained that NV1 will be working with independent producers who are
interested in developing material for national and international
audiences. That is one of the most important ways NV1 can foster the
dissemination of Native voices and viewpoints around the world and
nurture up-and-coming artists and broadcasters.
Other team members at NV1 include Burton Poley, Hopi, who trained under
Braine at KUYI and worked in operations at the Flagstaff public radio
station KNAU, and is now NV1's network manager; Nola Daves Moses, who
serves as program manager; Camille Lacapa, Hopi/Ojibway, who is the
station and audience relations manager; and David Newberger, Coeur
d'Alene, NV1's newest hire, who will be the Web producer. David Burnett,
Hupa, helped develop the Web site and is responsible for NV1's dramatic
logo.