KCHU, the public radio station in Valdez, Alaska, is used to living on the edge. For two months, its AM transmitter leaned precariously over the Valdez Glacier Stream as seasonal flooding from melting glaciers, called “glacial outburst events,” caused unprecedented erosion on its banks. The transmitter was removed in August to prevent it from imminent collapse, ending KCHU's AM transmission. To make matters worse, in July, KCHU also lost the bulk of its budget when Congress eliminated more than $1 billion in federal funding for public media. The twofold blow is “the most difficult set of circumstances that's ever happened to KCHU,” station director James Devens said.
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