KYUK

Fifty years later, the connections still run deep for the friends who struck out from San Francisco for a taste of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. For one of them, it was a homecoming.

A brand new 180-foot tower has been erected in its place to continue beaming local TV and radio programming, while serving as an essential component of local emergency and public safety operations.

With no obvious source of revenue, the motives for hoovering up a wide range of Alaska and Bethel-specific content remain unclear.