KTOO is a public media organization in Juneau, Alaska.
We operate 3 local radio channels, a statewide TV channel and variety of digital platforms. Our Production team is the largest in the region and provides coverage and services for events large and small in Juneau and across Alaska.
Contact us:
It’s never too early to reach out to pencil in a date on our calendar!
Some events are booked months or even years in advance.
Mikko Wilson, KTOO Production Manager | mikko.wilson@ktoo.org | Desk: 907-463-6474
Services:
Live Streaming
Our most requested service.
1 camera or 8? Check.
Zoom? YouTube? Vimeo? Facebook? … That’s a lot at once, but we could do it! 3 events in parallel from the same conference with multiple language tracks all live to YouTube? We’ve done that.
Including presenter’s PowerPoint, Keynote, or Canva slides; pre-recorded video, graphics, etc.
Anything we produce, we can stream live across one or more platforms, from pretty much anywhere.
TV Broadcasting
The core of our business.
We operate the statewide KTOO 360TV channel across Alaska with over 1000 hours of local production annually, in addition to providing local broadcast TV services in the Juneau area. KTOO 360TV reaches every corner of the state via broadcast, cable, satellite, the ARCS rural broadcast system, and of course online via the web and connected-TV streaming.
In addition to our Gavel Alaska live coverage of Alaska State government, we broadcast events recorded & live throughout the year from across the state. We are the exclusive broadcaster of the First Alaskans Institute’s Elders & Youth and Alaska Federation of Natives conferences, and have been producing live TV coverage of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Celebration cultural dance festival since its inception in 1982.
Lectures like the Juneau World Affairs council, and conferences such as the Juneau Economic Development Council’s Innovation Summit, and the Sharing Our Knowledge Clan Conference share information and ideas far & wide; while music & arts such as the Áak’w Rock indigenous music festival, the State Finals of the Alaska Poetry Out Loud competition, and the Alaska Folk Festival bring entertainment onto screens and into ears.
Event A/V
We are the local “A team” for producing live events.
The main ballroom of Juneau’s Centennial Hall has 5 fixed projectors, plus a handful of portable ones; and we regularly send video, presentations, and graphics to all of them, sometimes at the same time. And we helped design the system to do it.
Live camera shots, complete with real-time special effects, provide an up close view of the Juneau Arts & Humanities Council’s Wearable Art extravaganza with our IMAG service.
When local companies & Alaska Native corporations go to meet their shareholders in smaller remote communities, we bring the cameras & projectors to enable that personal connection in the room and across the region. Not only do we regularly stream these events, but we can also bring in virtual participants via Zoom, MS Teams, Google Meet, or other platforms into fully integrated seamless events:
Imagine… The first presenter is on stage using our wireless clicker to advance their slides, seeing them on a confidence monitor; the next presenter is remote from Iceland, controlling their slides over the internet; then audience members step up to the mic and ask their question of whomever they want. Everyone can see, everyone can hear, but there’s no echo or feedback, just genuine connection. And our hybrid physical & virtual timer system keeps the meeting on schedule, which not only helps the agenda run smoothly without eating into that critical networking coffee-break, but also means that the presentation recording will fit in a broadcast time slot; because we know why both of those are critical and we helped plan it that way.
Video Recording
Most of our projects involve recording, be it for private archive or worldwide distribution.
When you go into local museums, you will see our work: How to make & use Lingít halibut hooks, or the intricacies of yéil koowú Ravenstail weaving as danced locally for thousands of years; we understand local culture, and how to document it respectfully and in the highest quality.
When scientists trek across glaciers in the Juneau ice field to monitor climate change, our cameras take you there and capture not only the how, but the why. When the Alaska Division of Elections needs to quickly train thousands of election workers in just a few weeks, we make the videos that explain every step of the process so that the resulting workers have the confidence and knowledge to serve their communities with trust.
The majority of KTOO produced events integrate multiple facets into a single turnkey service: We take the time to understand the needs of each and every project, and scale our services to match. Sometimes we are a fly on the wall, other times we spend months planning with our clients to make sure the solution is right for the project. KTOO offers high quality services that our partners and audiences can trust to get the result they expect.
People:
Our team is core to what we do.
We have decades of experience in broadcasting & event production in Alaska. We specialize in live studio and field production. We help you plan, design, and execute productions ranging from a single camera recordings to live multi-venue multi-camera flagship events.
We are TV directors, cameras operators, drone pilots, Steadicam operators, Dante certified engineers; and award winning video producers.
KTOO has worked in communities & facilities all over the state, and have helped design & build sets and remote studios. Our team has expertise in logistics and technology. We know production and we know Alaska.
KTOO studios:
KTOO is home to a TV & radio studio facility in the heart of downtown Juneau, Alaska.
We have 1 primary TV studio with supporting Production Control Room, 3 additional smaller Production Control Rooms for remote productions such as our Gavel Alaska legislative coverage, plus a 4th main control suite dedicated to operating our live statewide KTOO 360TV television channel. For audio production we have 5 studios tailored for radio broadcasting and podcasts. All our studios have a modern compliment of microphones and broadcast TV cameras; we can go live from any space to any platform as desired.
The video facility operates on HD-SDI infrastructure at 1080i59.94 broadcast standard as default, other modes available on request. The audio facility operates on a Telos Axia Livewire+ network. Both systems are full integrated.
KTOO is home to a fully featured multimedia performance venue in downtown Juneau. It’s a high tech studio space for the community, for civic events, arts, cultural and music performances, town hall meetings, training classes, conferences, screenings, exhibitions, special events and more.
The venue features digital audio and high definition television studio, with industry standard broadcast video equipment, live web streaming capabilities; ideal for video shoots, audio recordings, or still photography. The studio is the home for a variety of public media projects which you can experience on KTOO, KRNN, KXLL, KTOO 360TV and online.
Adjacent connected conference rooms can serve as a green rooms, overflow space, breakout room, or work space.
Studio 1A details
Dimensions: 48’ x 32’ (1,536 sq. ft); height 12’ to lighting grid
Stage: 16’ x 16’ modular (4’x4’ sections), 9” high, carpeted, ADA compliant ramp
Physical Features: Flexible seating for up to 80 people. Contemporary wood and fabric finishes and furnishings. Air-conditioning, theatrical lighting grid, acoustic wall treatments, carpeted flooring, adjacent scene shop.
Lighting: LED ambient lighting and incandescent theatrical lighting system
Studio Video Production Equipment: 5 Sony HD cameras (3 pedestal mounted triax and 2 wall mounted robotic cameras), 70” LED monitor; 50″ LED monitor, 4000 lumen full HD projector and 10′ screen. Plus of course any of our portable equipment can be deployed in the studio.
Large Production Control Room:
Logitek digital audio system, Ross Carbonite+ 2ME live production video switcher with 18 inputs, Ross XPression Studio character generator, Harmonic Spectrum, Ross BlackStorm, and 360 Systems Maxx video servers, XDCAM-HD (disc) and ProRes/DNxHD (file) based physical recording, wired & wireless mics, RTS/Telex intercom system, Riedel MediorNet, Teleprompter, Zoom video conference bridging.
3 smaller Production Control Rooms:
Each has a Ross Graphite 1ME integrated production systems with 9 inputs, XPression Studio graphics & Clips, Ross RAVE audio, Skaarhoj remote camera control, RTS/Telex intercom system, Riedel MediorNet.
A 4th identical system functions as our MCR main control room for live broadcasts on KTOO 360 TV, operating in concert with our Harmonic Channel Port automate broadcast playout system under Polaris Play & Ingest automation control.
Connectivity: We are one of the most connected facilities in the state of Alaska.
- Guest Wi-Fi, redundant tripple-path wired Internet access.
- Zoom, Google Meet, MS Teams, Go To Meeting, video conferencing available, using our studio equipment or Meeting Owl 4+
- Private direct IP network connections to Alaska Public Media and KTUU-TV / KTVA-TV facilities in Anchorage and beyond on PBS, NBC, CBS, CNN, and Gray Television networks including PBS sIX, satellite uplink, TVU, & Dejero Live
- Live web streaming (YouTube, Vimeo Livestream, Facebook Live, etc…).
- Ability to stream HD MPEG-4 (h.264 AVC or h.265 HEVC) over public internet using RTMP/S, RTP, and SRT protocols, with Haivision Makito, Teradek, and Osprey Talon encoders and decoders available.
- Direct fiber connections to the Alaska State Capitol (including LAA LIO Media Services), the APK State Library Archives & Museum (including Alaska OWL), Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall (“EP Hall“), State of Alaska Juneau fiber & data network core, and telcos GCI, Alaska Communications, AT&T.
- Live broadcast capability on statewide KTOO 360TV, ARCS, Alaska Public Media TV, Alaska Public Radio Network; and in Juneau on KTOO-FM/KAUK-FM KRNN-FM or KXLL-FM.
Gear:
Our technology is high quality, efficient, and reliable. We pick and chose the right tools for our productions needs. We use full-size broadcast cameras & equipment, and lights because we care about your final product. We also have gear that is compact enough to fit the entire kit in a float-plane and produce your event from almost anywhere in Alaska.
We can set up in our studios, or we can travel by ferry, jet, small plane, and of course by road where available. Unlike “lower 48” production companies, we don’t have the luxury of drive-up truck access to venues, so we do it the Alaska way. All our field equipment is packed to travel, and with the exception of a few specialized items, it doesn’t even need special or overweight handling.
Selected KTOO field production equipment.
- 5 Panasonic AJ-PX380 1/3″ HDTV broadcast cameras
- 2 Panasonic AW-HE130 1/3″ HDTV robotic PTZ cameras
- Various other specialized cameras
- Sachtler & Vinten tripods, pedestals, & heads
- 10′ camera jib with remote head
- Camera tripod & operator risers
- Integrated remote production kit with Ross Carbonite Solo 1ME switcher, Reidel MediorNet routing with fiber-optic stage box, Behringer X32 Rack audio mixer & interface, Clearcom & Telex RTS wired & wireless intercom system, camera shading/paint, PTZ camera control, Blackmagic Hyperdeck & Matrox Monarch recorders & encoders, Ross XPression Designer graphics
- Compact production kits using Panasonic AW-HS50 and Blackmagic ATEM switchers
- Behringer X32 Compact audio mixer
- Teradek Bolt 6 SDI/HDMI wireless video
- Dracast LED Fresnel & panel lighting
- PepLink, Ubiquiti, & Cisco connectivity, routing & networking
- Haivision Makito, Teradek & Osprey Talon encoders and decoders. (SRT, RTMP/S, RTP, RTSP, etc…)
- Portable 10′ front/rear projection screen
- HDMI, SDI, AES50, MADI, Fiber optic interfaces & cabling
- Weather protection for outdoor productions
- Hybrid (physical & virtual) presentation/testimony/debate timer system
- PerfectCue presentation remote
- 50″ presenter confidence monitor with floor stand
- Conference microphones
The available equipment rental options in Alaska is limited, but in addition to working with companies in Anchorage, Fairbanks, Seattle, and Portland, we also have regular agreements for access to other production tools available locally.
- Additional traditional (ETC Source-4, etc..) theatrical lighting.
- Additional grip equipment, stages, truss
- Medium venue projectors
- Power generation
- Outdoor shelters
- Drones/UAVs with live video capability (pilots on staff)
- Steadicam camera stabilizer (with operator)
- Additional audio mixers & equipment
We work in most of the facilities in Juneau, and regularly work with with audio & lighting specialists in Juneau, across Alaska, and beyond to make sure that the team & tools for every job are high quality and within your budget.
What about audio & lighting? KTOO can supply a full “turn-key” service thanks to our relationships with Alaska’s best audio and lighting contractors. We are your single point of contact for management of all aspects of your event’s production.
Contact:
Mikko Wilson, KTOO Production Manager | mikko.wilson@ktoo.org | Desk: 907-463-6474