KRUA – 88.1 FM The Edge

Enjoy the best in music, talk, news, and entertainment with KRUA – 88.1 FM The Edge, bringing you top-quality radio from Alaska. Stay tuned for an unbeatable listening experience. Broadcasting on FM, Internet and leading online streaming platforms.

KRUA 88.1 FM The Edge broadcasts out of the University of Alaska Anchorage, sending a signal from studios on the UAA campus through a transmitter in Eagle River to reach much of Alaska’s South Central region, with an online stream picking up listeners well beyond that. As a non-commercial college station run by student staff and community volunteers, KRUA Radio skips a single fixed format in favor of a packed, ever-shifting lineup: Zabu and the Hip-Hop Review digs into hip-hop culture, Chill Pill offers something more laid-back, and Alaska’bout It leans into local Alaska-specific talk. Anyone who wants to listen live can also catch Edge Essentials for a rotating sampler of the station’s core sound.

That range extends past music into talk and comedy formats too, with shows like The Odyssey: Variety Hour and Junk Mail giving DJs room to experiment outside a traditional playlist. National Arbitron research has shown that KRUA holds listeners for longer stretches than typical commercial stations and skews toward a younger audience, a pattern the station attributes to programming that changes show to show rather than repeating the same rotation. That mix of student-built variety and community volunteer involvement has kept KRUA a distinctive presence on the Anchorage dial.