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• CKUW Nostalgia!

  Posted by Rob on October 11th, 2006

  A very cool piece of CKUW history walked in the door today.

  Program Director Robin models the CKUW jacket

  Thanks to Michael ‘Higgy’ Higgins for letting us marvel at his threads. We’d love to learn more about these up-to-now mythical CKUW jackets.

  Do you have one? Do you know someone who does? Were they only for staff or would heroic deeds qualify for jacket-nirvana??? We want to know! Contact us with your CKUW stories: ckuw@uwinnipeg.ca

  Check out our Flickr stream for more cool pics of the jacket: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckuw/

  

• Island Vibes on the Web

  Posted by Rob on October 2nd, 2006

  Shanu of Island Vibes (Sundays 10pm-midnight!) updated me on his website today. Check it out at www.islandvibes.org. Theres pictures, music and even a link to his YouTube space!!

  VibesTube!!

  Dandy good sport!! Superfluous exclamations!!!

  

• 2000 and Counting Blog

  Posted by Rob on September 27th, 2006

  The lively folks at 2000 and counting have set up a blog to share ideas and communicate about their show. You can find it here: http://seniors-radio.blogspot.com/

  As always you can tune in live to their program Tuesadays at 3pm and the rebroadcast on Thursday mornings.

  

• Dig Your Roots

  Posted by Rob on September 22nd, 2006

  The NCRA’s Dig Your Roots project is now on Myspace. http://www.myspace.com/digyourroots

  Dig Your Roots is a Canadian Talent Development project supported by Corus Entertainment and the NCRA. You can find out more at http://www.digyourroots.ca/

  

• Live stream is up!

  Posted by Rob on September 14th, 2006

  We have restored the live mp3 radio stream.

  I apologize for the delay in getting it working I know a lot of people have come to depend on listening to CKUW on the net. Old bookmarks should work fine or you can copy & paste this address:

  http://205.200.67.23:8000/listen.pls

  Thank you for your patience dear listener!

  

• Hip Rock Ninjas Conquer the Rock!

  Posted by Rob on September 8th, 2006

  For the third year running CKUW’s fab ‘Hip-Rock-Ninjas’ entered the annual U of W rock climb.

  Sadly, the Ninjas couldn’t pull a win out of their shinobi shozoku but it was a fine day and they did look great. You can follow their climb attempt through our photos page at flickr: CKUW Photo Album

  

• Welcome to CKUW’s New Program Director!!

  Posted by Rob on September 5th, 2006

  Robin Eriksson has joined the CKUW staff as Program Director. Robin is hard at work learning how the station works and meeting all the wonderful volunteers and listeners who make up our community.

  We wish outgoing PD Art Ladd the best of luck in University this year, Art can still be heard programming ‘Morning Mattress Dancers’ Fridays 6am-8am.

  To contact Robin, call the office line at (204) 786-9782 or email her Robin

  

• Streaming Problems

  Posted by Rob on August 28th, 2006

  We’re having problems with our shoutcast (streaming) server.

  I’m hoping we can get it repaired this week. Until it is fixed we will be unable to stream CKUW live on the internet. In the meantime the archives (accessed through the program schedule) should still work. Please let us know if you encounter any difficulties.

  

• Reception Problems?

  Posted by Rob on August 23rd, 2006

  We’ve had a few reports of reception problems over the last weekend. We’re working to fix the problem (likely a phasing issue), but I wanted to remind listeners that technical feedback is always welcome.

  We rely on listener feedback to help us pinpoint reception problems and improve our overall service. Call us any time on the office line at 786-9782 or send email to ckuw@uwinnipeg.ca

  Listeners experiencing reception issues should check out radio reception tips at these sites:
  Vermont Public Radio
  BBC’s Tips

  

• New charts

  Posted by Rob on August 15th, 2006

  Charts now updated weekly. We’re getting lots of positive comments about the archive, keep ‘em coming! We can’t do this without you!