US EditionShaw: ‘It’s a Nightmare’
KKWE loses $180,000 in federal funding, about 40% of its revenue, jeopardizing its role serving the White Earth Nation and broader Minnesota listeners.
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Shaw: ‘It’s a nightmare’
For no good reason, the future of a small but essential radio station in Becker County, Minnesota, is very much in doubt. The station is KKWE, a public radio station, otherwise known as Niijii Radio. “We might have to go dark,” KKWE General Manager Margaret Rousu told me. Niijii means friend in the Ojibwe language, but Congress and Donald Trump have hardly been friendly to KKWE. They rescinded all $180,000 in federal funding to the station. That…
Jim Shaw: ‘It’s a nightmare’ for Minnesota public radio stations
For no good reason, the future of a small but essential radio station in Becker County, Minnesota, is very much in doubt. The station is KKWE, a public radio station, otherwise known as Niijii Radio. “We might have to go dark,” KKWE General Manager Margaret Rousu told me. Niijii means friend in the Ojibwe language, but Congress and Donald Trump have hardly been friendly to KKWE. They rescinded all $180,000 in federal funding to the station. That…
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