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
THE MOST DIVERSE & INCLUSIVE 1HR ON RADIO…MUSIC, DANCE, REFLECT, LAUGH, PARTY
Join host Chubby D and DJs Barfly and Shorty every Saturday night for the best in Dancehall, Lover’s Rock, Conscious and Rub-a-Dub. All the latest dub-plates and mainstream hits from Dennis Brown to Beenieman.
True story: host, Dave Quanbury, is an exile. Each week’s show starts with an anecdote related to his experience at the border and introduces the week’s musical theme. The music spans the gamut of genres keeping to the weekly theme.
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!
Free City Radio explores the intersection of social activism and the arts.
A program featuring interviews on contemporary political currents in Montréal, Canada and around the world, highlighting creative voices involved in struggles for transformative social change.
Free City Radio also features music from around the world.
Free City Radio is produced and hosted by Stefan Christoff.
Soca, reggae, dance-hall, calypso, rapso and chutney music from The Islands. Plus local Caribbean events, guest DJ’s and other music industry info from the Caribbean.
Journey Into Sound takes you on a weekly adventure into a specific genre or musical movement, from the dawn of recorded music to today. We explore the culture and history of music through sound.
Host: Olivier
ROMPE is Latin based music show. Its primary focus is to highlight Latin musical talent across Canada, as well as promote Local Latin culture events in the city of Winnipeg.
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
Host Tom Fleming journeys into new releases of music from the African diaspora.
Featuring the newest releases of the African Diaspora, this program sees acoustic ensemble music as a developing world jazz incorporating styles and rhythms which draw from indigenous sources. On the air since 1984, The Freedom Principle is a multiple award-winning program.
Past thematic programs include Manding Swing, Congolese Rumba, Zimbabwean Liberation, South African Jazz, Mississippi Delta Slide & Moan, African Impressionism in American Jazz, etc.
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.
The Ivory Tower broadcasts jazz, world music and traditional folk from the dizzying heights of the fourth-and-a-half floor of the University of Winnipeg. Legendary entertainment impresario Kelly Hughes has been called “staccato and laconic” (poet Méira Cook), “so funny I peed myself” (CBC’s Shelagh Rogers), “off-putting, rude and tasteless”, and “kingpin to mavericks and musicians.” The Ivory Tower is 90 minutes fortified with the best music you haven’t heard, anecdotes, lies, recipes, and sparkling conversation with one of said mavericks/musicians, each and every week.
A 90-minute transglobal holiday combining the traditional and contemporary. Stories of struggle told by people all over the world, through the universal language — music.
Trip Hop with a little sprinkle of Reggae Metal chaos at the end.
CKUW is an excellent example of a Campus and COMMUNITY radio station. Diverse programming from an excellent group of volunteers. Staff who are there because they CARE about their station and it’s potential in their community. You guys walk the walk.
– NCRC Conference Attendee
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
