KAUG

{{short description|Radio station of the Anchorage School District in Anchorage, Alaska}}

{{About||the airport in Augusta, Maine assigned the ICAO code KAUG|Augusta State Airport|the radio station in Minneapolis, Minnesota|Augsburg University}}

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{{Infobox radio station

| name = KAUG

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| city = Anchorage, Alaska

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| airdate = 2007

| last_airdate = February 2, 2022

| frequency = 89.9 MHz

| format = Defunct (was Variety)

| erp = 4 watts

| haat = 30 meters (98 feet)

| class = D

| facility_id = 165582

| coordinates = {{coord|61|24|33|N|149|25|15|W}}

| callsign_meaning = A reference to Augie Hiebert, who assisted in putting the station on the air

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| owner = Anchorage School District

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| licensing_authority= FCC

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KAUG (89.9 FM) was a radio station licensed to serve Anchorage, Alaska. The station was last owned by the Anchorage School District.{{cite news |work=Partnership Press |title=Communications classroom named in honor of Augie Hiebert |url=http://www.asdk12.org/depts/sbp/pubs/Newsletter/2008_winter.pdf |publisher=Anchorage School District |format=PDF |date=Winter 2007–2008 |page=2 |quote=Mirror Lake Middle School has acknowledged broadcast pioneer Augie Hiebert's legacy by renaming its communications room "The Augie Hiebert Communications Studio." Mr. Hiebert was the school's mentor for its Video News program and helped launch the first radio station in the ASD. The station, with the call letters KAUG, is also the first FM radio station licensed to a middle school in the nation.}} It aired a variety format.{{cite web|title=Station Information Profile |work=Arbitron |url=http://www.arbitron.com/ |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301134627/http://www.arbitron.com/ |archivedate=2010-03-01 }}

The station was assigned the KAUG call letters by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on August 7, 2007.{{cite web |title=Call Sign History |url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=165582&Callsign=DKAUG |work=FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database}} The FCC cancelled the station's license and deleted its call sign on February 2, 2022 for failure to file an application for license renewal.

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