CKCU-FM

CKCU-FM
City Ottawa, Ontario
Broadcast area National Capital Region
Branding CKCU, The Mighty 93.1
Slogan Ottawa's Community Radio Station
Frequency 93.1 MHz (FM)
First air date 14 November 1975 (1975-11-14)
Format Campus Radio/First Nations community radio
ERP 12 kWs
HAAT 262.5 meters (861 ft)
Class B
Callsign meaning C K Carleton University
Owner Radio Carleton Inc.
Webcast MP3 Flash
Website www.ckcufm.com

CKCU-FM is a Canadian community-based campus radio station, broadcasting at 93.1 FM in Ottawa, and offering live and archived on-demand MP3 streams from its website. The station broadcasts 24 hours per day, 365 days per year.

The station's studios are located on the campus of Carleton University, on the fifth floor of the University Centre building.[1] The station's signal is radiated from the Ryan Tower in the Gatineau Hills, along with most of Ottawa's other private and public radio stations, meaning that it enjoys full broadcast power and a listening area with a radius of 100 km.

History

CKCU Radio Carleton is Canada's oldest community-based campus radio station. It first broadcast on November 14, 1975 when it played Joni Mitchell's "You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio".[2] CKCU broadcasts live 24 hours a day to a 100 km radius on FM 93.1.[2]

CKCU airs over 100 different shows each week, including multicultural programs in 14 languages. The schedule includes both general and specialty music programs, public affairs and spoken word programming, and features many shows with a topical or international flavour. Some shows feature live in-studio performances by local artists. CKCU actively supports, sponsors and promotes local independent musicians, venues, concerts and festivals including the Ottawa Folk Festival.

Volunteers from the campus and community program and host all shows. Often dubbed the mighty 93 by devotees, CKCU has a freeform format that allows the hosts to pick all the music played, and has many cultural/community programs. [2][3]

The listener-supported station has an annual funding drive in late October and early November, to raise one-third of its annual operating budget.[2] In 2006, this raised over $108,000 (unofficial total as of November 5, 2006). In recent years the funding drive regularly raised over $100 000 towards the station's budget of just over $300 000 per year. A further $100,000 is raised from university student levies, with the balance is supplied by advertisers and sponsors. The station self-produces much of the advertising material it carries, giving the advertising a campus flavour popular with listeners.

Each March break and several times during the summer, CKCU runs a unique Radio Camp for kids ages 10–14. The camp has been growing in popularity since 2003 and features a live two-hour kids broadcast.[4]

CKCU-FM was included amongst other architecturally interesting and historically significant buildings in Doors Open Ottawa, held June 2 and 3, 2012.

Selected programs (Currently on)

Famous alumni

References

  1. ↑ http://carleton.ca/departments/2010/ckcu-fm-93-1/ CKCU 93.1 - Directories - Carleton University
  2. 1 2 3 4 http://www.ckcufm.com/about About | CKCU-FM
  3. ↑ http://www.ckcufm.com/volunteer CKCU Volunteers | CKCU
  4. ↑ http://www.ckcufm.com/radio-camp Radio Camp | CKCU-FM

External links

Coordinates: 45°23′00″N 75°41′52″W / 45.3833°N 75.6979°W / 45.3833; -75.6979

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