To celebrate International Women’s Day, the programmers who were “fired” from CKLN — including hosts from CKLN’s only feminist programs, as well as trans, queer, and activist programmers — are holding a five-hour broadcast tomorrow from a pub around the corner from the radio station that locked them out. The broadcast will feature voices otherwise silenced in the mainstream, as well as focus on community grassroots media across this country, its significance and importance. Visit the Take Back Our Radio Station blog for more information on the locked-out volunteers and tomorrow’s broadcast.
Details:
Take Back Our Radio! International Women’s Day
5 hr. National Radio Broadcast Action
March 11th, 2009
5 to 10 pm (Eastern)
Listen Live! www.RMR.fm
You can also head to the Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St., at Victoria) to listen and watch live. The broadcast will be archived at www.radio4all.net.
Catch this broadcast in these Canadian cities: CKUT in Montreal (90.3 FM), CHRY in Toronto (105.5 FM), CFRU in Guelph (93.3 FM, www.cfru.ca), CJUM in Winnipeg (101.5 FM), Co-op Radio in Vancouver (102.7 FM, Starchoice 845 Satellite, Telus Channel 178), CJSF in Burnaby (90.1 FM), the Black Mask show on CKUW in Winnipeg (95.9 FM), and many others.
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two comments
Awesome! Thanks for letting us know about this, Nicole!
Posted by D. Cole
March 10, 2009, 1:36 PM
I've been trying to follow the CKLN story and it's only becoming more and more confusing. What I don't understand is the motive behind the "firing" of the volunteers - the management seems completely unwilling to communicate whatever it is they're trying to achieve, which in itself goes against the whole point of a community radio station. It seems possible that it's the result of a decision (made without the consent of station members) to take the station in a more commercial direction, but do they ever actually cite that as a reason? It's bizarre and scary. I've been doing community radio for almost a decade now and it's frightening to think about something like this happening at my station; if anything, it's a reminder of how important it is to stay vigilant in terms of keeping things transparent, and also appreciating how amazing it is when collectively-managed and volunteer-operated institutions DO succeed.
Posted by Anna
March 12, 2009, 3:56 PM
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