Eight months after ending its reign as Alaska’s longest-running radio show, “Problem Corner” resumes its one-hour weekday broadcast at 1 p.m. Monday on KINY-AM.

A Juneau radio station suspended a weekday program that has been on the air for about 70 years on Feb. 2 because “based on our feedback and research, it may be time to stop the broadcast,” Cliff Dumas, the station’s chief content officer and part of its group ownership, said then. However, in an interview on Sunday, Dumas said that after further analysis and feedback received in recent months, the decision was made to resume the program.

“Once we discovered the passion that people had for the show and felt that the plan for a 70-year-old series in this market was quite concrete, it became quite clear that we needed to redesign it and bring it back,” he said. “We always wanted to bring it back in some form. It was just a matter of finding the right combination of network, social media and broadcast to kind of bring it up to a modern standard.”

Mike Lane, a longtime fixture on KINA, will be the new main host of “Problem Corner” with several people — yet unnamed — who will likely co-host with him on a rotating basis during the week, Dumas said.

“We’ll probably do three to start with, and then on Fridays we’ll show a show that will be a call out to businesses that want to sort of improve what’s going on, open up phone lines that allow small local businesses to say, ‘Here’s what I do, here’s what I have for sale, that’s why you should come and shop here,” he said.

The station is also considering hosting a “separate” buy-and-sell call-in show on Saturdays, but Dumas said such calls will still be accepted during weekday open shows, which in the past have been a mixed bag of discussion on a variety of topics, events, announcements, news and sales.

Dumas said that at 1 p.m. — two hours later than the show’s previous broadcast time — Lane will begin his usual 1-6 p.m. on-air shift.

“Problem Corner” launched in the mid-1950s and hosted several well-known local hosts from 1980 to 2010, including former Juneau Mayor Dennis Egan (who eventually became the station’s owner). The last permanent host was Wade Bryson, a business owner who also served as a Juneau Assemblyman in recent years, who began replacing Egan in 2008 and took over full-time until its last weekday airing in early February of this year.

On February 14, “Problem Corner” began as a weekly podcast, with Bryson reading messages sent throughout the week and calling people to discuss issues. For example, the first podcast included a phone call with Bartlett Regional Hospital Board Chair Kenny Solomon-Gross to discuss the leadership transition at the hospital. Bryson’s last podcast for the station was on Aug. 3 and covered, among other things, the Suicide Basin, which ruptured a day later and caused record flooding.

Last week, Bryson said he was not interested in running the revamped “Problem Corner” again for career and health reasons.

Lane hosted the show for years and worked at KINY long enough to get to know the people and nature of the show, which marks an important turning point in Southeast Alaska radio history, Dumas said.

“It was really one of those things where I was amazed at how many people wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to have a Problem Corner,” he said. “And when you say the word ‘Issue Corner’ to virtually every member of this community, or even suggest, ‘Would you consider being a host or co-host?’ We’re trying to find the perfect person to do it” – everyone said, “Oh my God, it’s an iconic show.” I would love to do this. That response alone inspired me to say, “OK, this is something really special and we have to respect it.”

“Egan obviously put it on the map,” Dumas added. “And the interesting thing is that Mike remembers all this. He was part of it all. He was here through it all. So he understands the legacy of the show.”

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