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  • Turn on the FM chip!

    Posted by Rob on November 14th, 2016

    Today’s smartphones already have an FM receiver built in and everyone could have free and easy access to radio through wireless devices. In general the FM receivers are not activated by all wireless carriers and phone makers.

    Find out how you can take action!

    freeradioonmyphone.ca

  • Welcome News Director, Anna Sigrithur

    Posted by Rob on October 31st, 2016

    Anna Sigrithur joins the CKUW staff this week as News Director.

    Anna has volunteered with CKUW since 2011 as a host of Femisphere and on our Board of Directors. Inspired by radio, Anna recently worked as a research intern at the Nordic Food Lab in Copenhagen, Denmark producing a series of radio documentaries about Swedish Arctic foods. – nordicfoodlab.org/radio

    You can listen to our news volunteers every Monday to Wednesday 8-9am on the People of Interest show.

  • The 5th Annual Student Radio Marathon

    Posted by CKUW PD on October 13th, 2016

    CKUW and the UWSA are proud to present the 5th Annual Student Radio Marathon on Thursday, November 10. This is a day reserved exclusively for students to access the airwaves.

    The Student Radio Marathon provides a platform for students to share information/music with our listening audience; empowers students to make their own media and contribute their voice to the public discourse; helps develop literacy, research and presentation skills; is lots of fun!

    Sign up for the marathon here
    Check out the programming schedule here

    For all questions, please contact Victoria at 204-786-9782 or via email

  • Speak to your community!

    Posted by Rob on October 6th, 2016

    Have you ever wanted to be on the radio? Do you have a passion for sharing music and ideas? CKUW is always recruiting volunteers for jobs on and off air. Volunteer training is free and easy, workshops are scheduled for October and throughout the year.

    You can find out more about volunteering at CKUW here: ckuw.ca/volunteer

  • Welcome Victoria King

    Posted by Rob on September 19th, 2016

    We welcome Victoria King as CKUW’s new Program Director. While you may have seen or heard Victoria around CKUW you may not know about all her radio accomplishments.

    Victoria joined CKUW in 2010, she has hosted music and spoken word programming as well as completing extensive work on production and documentary projects. As Volunteer Coordinator she has trained dozens of volunteers and reached out to the community on and off campus. Victoria is involved at the national level with the Equity Committee of the NCRA. Her undergraduate project ‘Is This Thing On? An Ethnography of Campus and Community Radio’ will appear in the inaugural edition of ‘Crossings’, the journal for undergraduate research at the University of Winnipeg, expected in late fall of 2016.

    “I want you to know that I’m so excited to start working as CKUW Program Director; more than anything, I’m really looking forward to working with all of you to keep building this radio community that we all care about so much.”