Backbeat is a one-hour radio show featuring vintage popular music. It’s not about nostalgia. It’s a fun and lively exploration of our shared music history with an emphasis on artists and records that have been underrated, forgotten or just ignored over the years.
We also play new music from artists who understand and honour that history
Break North Radio is a weekly 1 hour hip-hop show focusing on the best in boom bap & underground hip-hop, with a healthy mixture of Canadian and old school hip-hop.
Local deep cuts. Every Friday from 2 to 3pm hear whole albums from (mostly) Winnipeg artists and bands.
THE MOST DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE 1HR ON RADIO…MUSIC, DANCE, REFLECT, LAUGH, PARTY
Join your host, Rico, for a musical ride across soca, calypso, reggae, dancehall, world beat, rap, soul and funk. It’ll start your day up right!
eat Wave Baby Vibez is a two-hour radio program on CKUW 95.9 FM, hosted by MGL The Specialist. The show delivers a dynamic mix of Afrofusion, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Congolese Rumba, Ndombolo, alongside Hip-Hop and R&B, creating a global sound experience rooted in culture and community.
More than music, Heat Wave Baby Vibez is a platform for conversation, creativity, and connection. The show highlights artists, DJs, musicians, producers, event organizers, promoters, and cultural contributors from Winnipeg, Canada, the diaspora, and beyond. Through interviews and open dialogue, the program explores artistic journeys, creative processes, and the stories behind the sound.
Focused on inspiration, motivation, and cultural exchange, Heat Wave Baby Vibez bridges the gap between radio, live events, and community movements while keeping listeners informed on what’s happening next in arts and entertainment. Energetic, intentional, and community-driven, the show offers a fresh perspective on music, life, and creative expression — all powered by pure vibe.
Hip Hop 50: The Culture is a Hip Hop R&B Show that takes us through 50 years of Hip Hop and how it’s evolved into the number 1 music genre. Hip Hop is not only music its a culture driven genre that has changed the lives of many, while allowing them to have to tell life and fictional stories of what is happening in personnel lives and world events. Host DJ Roc Tha Block takes you on an hour journey of this evolution. The audience will catch a vibe right at 7pm straight until 8pm.
DJ Roc Tha Block has travelled the world and DJ’d for many top Hip Hop artists in the world of Hip Hop and now he will be bringing these artist conversations 50 years later. Stay tuned to blown away for 60 minutes of non stop Hip Hop, & R&B.
This is The Culture
Quadrafunk is Winnipeg’s longest running radio DJ mix show. Now entering its 12th year, the show continues to evolve.
Bass-heavy music from the UK and around the world including nu-jungle, UK garage, bass and techno.
Radio Free Winnipeg explores the intersection between art, culture and politics.
First hour: Weather report show listings with a mix of indie, folk, blues and BAM (Black American Music)
Second hour: Mandatory Heavy (punk\metal) at the top of the hour, psych rock, afrobeat and other tributaries of the weird and wonderful, recipe of the week to impress and gross out your friends.
Sometimes there will be interviews
Hosted by Scott Price DJ Dill Gherkin
Join DJ Platform each and every Saturday night as he plays the hottest old school hip hop tracks from the 80s, 90s and indie scene. Featured local acts will be showcased, too.
Rez Vibes Connections is made by the people, for the people. Decolonizing one day at a time, one soul at a time, one song at a time. From the streets to the classroom we are uplifting each other to grow and elevate from colonialism
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We will be Playing new and OLDSCHOOL Hip Hop from our city of Winnipeg and across Canada, U.S.A.& worldwide. STREETKILLAZ Generation Next founded by Dj disspare and Streetkillaz Ent,wants to give help and support to the younger generation who are interested in radio production, spoken word, Dj-ing, and life skills just to name a few.We will also be paying homage to the legendary artist that have passed away in the industry.
Temple Tent Revival is Triple E Radio ~ Eclectic, Exceptional, and thoroughly Excellent! [And independently elected too, by Kits and listeners.]
every sunday evening your host, chris friesen, plays lounge music for a beach party in hades, the lounge is located beside a broken elevator that is blasting out ‘elevator music’ through a shattered transistor radio speaker that really shouldn’t work at all but somehow still does. a different version of Duke Ellington’s CARAVAN every week.
Intermittent tweeting via that twitter thing available to be followed at http://twitter.com/theckuwcarp
The English alphabet hath 26 letters, and the calendar year 52 weeks. Every week, this musical radio program focuses on a different letter of the week, following the alphabet’s order from A to Z (and neatly completing the cycle twice a year). Playing only music by artists whose names begin with that week’s letter, our hosts Sheldon and Daniel bring you their joyful discoveries every Sunday from the heart of downtown Winnipeg, on Treaty 1 Territory.
I guess you could say my show is my own personal search – through music – in the middle of the night every Monday. So join me and I’ll bring you an out-of-the-ordinary mix of blues, soul, rock, funk, Americana, bluegrass and whatever else it takes to shake the work blues.
The Medicine Wheel of Music promotes Aboriginal, Metis and Inuit artists. Each show focuses on a different genre of music from rock, heavy metal, hip-hop to traditional. When possible local artists will be invited to share their musical experiences, their creative process and inspiration and perform.
Starting in 1998 The Motherland Influence continues to bring you African, Latin & Caribbean music from wherever we can find it. Nigeria to Colombia to Haiti to Europe to USA. Soukous, Calypso, Rai, Reggae, Afrobeat, Salsa, Cumbia, Chaabi, the list goes on. We do it because it needs to be heard and we love it. We think you will too.
Bass, analog, retro, CHIIIILLLLL
You’re listening to The Wave on ckuw 95.9fm
Welcome to the wave! where you can be a real human bean! we got lots of tracks from the future, the past, and a few alternate universes
We play Synthwave, Chillwave, and Vaporwave, and maybe some other funky stuff! try not to get blinded by synesthesia!
I love the diversity of sounds and genre! It keeps me interested and listening for more.
– Julien
Room 4CM11, University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, R3B 2E9
Office: (204) 786-9782, Studio: (204) 774 6877, Fax: (204) 783-7080, E: ckuw@uwinnipeg.ca
