KSEW (Sitka, Alaska)

For the former station in Seward, Alaska, see KSEW (Seward, Alaska).

KSEW (1400 AM) was a radio station in Sitka, Alaska.

The frequency began in 1949 as KALA.^[1] On September 13, 1954, The 1400 AM frequency was reactivated as KSEW. KSEW was a low-power, multilingual radio station that broadcast in both English and Tlingit.^[2] One of the employees of KSEW was Tlingit scholar Walter Soboleff.^[3] It was shut down on June 2, 1969, with its license deleted one week later on June 9, 1969.^[4][5] In its early years, KSEW simulcasted programs with KIFW.