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Southern Ute Tribal Radio Streaming by Joan Zwisler
January 25, 2005 5:48 PM
archivesJoan Zwisler reports from KSUT, Four Corners Public Radio, about new Internet streaming of the Southern Ute's tribal radio station. [LISTEN]
ERIC WHITNEY: Colorado is home to two Indian reservations, although they're pretty easy to miss. Both comprise a narrow strip of land along the New Mexico border in the very southwest corner of the state. A new service is bringing the Southern Ute Reservation out of the shadows, however. The tribe's radio station recently started making its broadcast signal available on the Internet. From KSUT, Four Corners Public Radio, Joan Zwisler reports.
JOAN ZWISLER: The page has information about powwows across the nation, recordings of Ute words, and archives a thirty minute radio magazine called the Tribal Beat.
KSUT's Board President and volunteer Eddie Box, Jr. has been involved with the station in Ignacio for more than twenty-five years, and he's seen a lot of changes since KSUT first broadcast from a small room at the Sun Ute Casino. Now, Box says that while anyone with Internet access can hear the tribal station with live streaming, it will have special meaning for those Southern Ute Tribal members living off the reservation. One of them is his son, who lives in Las Vegas.
EDDIE BOX: He's listening. He's listening now. And he says, "Wow this is great I can hear Native American music from back home. The news from back home, too is available to me." It makes our tribal members that are living far away from here that have access to computer to be able to listen to home.
ZWISLER: Southern Ute Tribal Radio started streaming in December of 2004, just before the year ended. It was a dream come true for Eddie Box, Junior, who said he always wanted to be heard on the air off the tip of South America.
BOX: My next dream is for the people here to produce a show. Instead of us down-linking shows, we uplink shows and start building shows here.
ZWISLER: The tribal radio station carries national, Native American and some local programming. Box says the new streaming is a sign of growth.
BOX: We, as a station, are moving ahead. We are doing great big things that we would have never thought we could have done five years ago. This is something that is exciting for each and every one of us that are here.
ZWISLER: Live streaming is available on the web at
www.ksut.org. Click on the link to the Southern Ute Radio Page.
I'm Joan Zwisler.
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ERIC WHITNEY: That's our show for this week, thanks for tuning in to Western Skies. We produce the show at KRCC's studios in downtown Colorado Springs. Stephen Raher is our associate producer, Delaney Utterback runs the webpage, where you can find audio and transcripts of this and past editions of Western Skies, that's at krcc.org. I'm Eric Whitney.
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