Sad sign of the times.

Hansa wrote:

How many campus stations are left?

A few at the college level, most of which will likely pivot to general community radio - they include Loyalist's CJLX 91.3 Belleville "91X", Algonquin's CKDJ 107.9 Ottawa, as well as Conestoga's CJIQ 88.3.

As a Fanshawe grad, very sad to hear.  6X debuted not long after I left in 1976. In my time, we had “Radio Fanshawe” pumping through the campus halls.  With memorable jingles like, “When you’re walking down the hall, you know you’ve got it all, at Radio Fanshawe!”  — and — “When you’re not in your car, you know just where you are, at Radio Fanshawe!”

djwildbill wrote:

I was wondering the same for Humber College’s 96.9FM. Students are finishing off their program this fall but the radio course has been canceled so no new students starting this fall.

Good question. There's no point in having a station for students to learn on if there are no students. What a shame.

Campus radio was a great place to learn and experiment and you'll never find a better place to make mistakes and correct them. I was glad to have had that experience at what was then called "U of T. Radio," which we illegally called "CKRV," short for "Radio Varsity." 

Among the people I "worked" with there (it was totally voluntary) was a young teenager named Kevin Nelson. He was Jay Nelson's kid and you could tell he had a lot of talent even at 16. He later become the long running morning man at Majic FM in Ottawa before his untimely death in 2011. He was only 52. 

Or you could listen online to my alma mater, CITR FM at UBC.
It is still very much alive and thriving.

https://www.citr.ca/

RA:  I remember that UofT station on Rogers Cable FM in the 70's. Not sure when it was dropped though, but would assume the launch of CIUT (1987?) would have replaced it.
Mace: You are probably not going to be too happy with the mobile reception of 97 Rock if Radio Humber should go away. The antenna site they now use at Elmwood Ave. is directional and has a reduced signal towards Toronto, when compared to their previous site. Otherwise, if you are near the lake or there is tropo, then it comes in decent with RDS display.
 

6X created quite an impression when it debuted. If I recall correctly CFPL FM 95.9 was the only other FM station on the air. CIXX was kind of middle of the road through the day and hardened up at night. Around that same time FM 96 dropped its variety / easy format for rock. Not long after that 6X went hip hop and I stopped listening. It was good for a while.

Probably no future in the station now unless they tried a new format which will not happen. London radio is such a waste.

I've been on boards and worked with some of the colleges, and many of them had taken, or were in the process of taking steps to restructure the programs to suit current realties, but it was mostly too little, too late. Things advance quickly and bureaucracies are anything but quick.

TMU did a really good job catching up, and I believe they're the only one left.

paterson1 wrote:

RadioAaron wrote:

I've been on boards and worked with some of the colleges, and many of them had taken, or were in the process of taking steps to restructure the programs to suit current realties, but it was mostly too little, too late. Things advance quickly and bureaucracies are anything but quick.

TMU did a really good job catching up, and I believe they're the only one left.

Conestoga College in Kitchener still has their two year radio program.  88.3 CJIQ is the campus station that the broadcast students run, along with streamer Q2.

That's great news; not one I've been directly involved with.

Saul wrote:

From the article:  “As requested, we have committed to responding to the students with further details soon. For now, I can confirm we are in the process of engaging with community partners who have voiced an interest in Fanshawe’s broadcasting license.”

I have no idea what's being planned or what kind of partners Fanshawe is talking about - and that will all determine whether it's a valid replacement or bullshit.

This infers that it'll become a community station instead of the current campus station license.....
 

RadioAaron wrote:

torontostan wrote:

Saul wrote:

From the article:  “As requested, we have committed to responding to the students with further details soon. For now, I can confirm we are in the process of engaging with community partners who have voiced an interest in Fanshawe’s broadcasting license.”

I have no idea what's being planned or what kind of partners Fanshawe is talking about - and that will all determine whether it's a valid replacement or bullshit.

This infers that it'll become a community station instead of the current campus station license.....
 

They're virtually the same. Switching would be a minor technicality

https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2010/2010-499.htm?_ga=2.239334531.185122287.1717692376-272672049.1717082154

Technicality sure, but the funding is very different

torontostan wrote:

Saul wrote:

From the article:  “As requested, we have committed to responding to the students with further details soon. For now, I can confirm we are in the process of engaging with community partners who have voiced an interest in Fanshawe’s broadcasting license.”

I have no idea what's being planned or what kind of partners Fanshawe is talking about - and that will all determine whether it's a valid replacement or bullshit.

This infers that it'll become a community station instead of the current campus station license.....

Possibly could. That's up to them, and not yet announced. Anyhow, that's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying that the programmers or even actual content providers would come from the community. Just that Fanshawe should seek out partners with expertise, resources and specialists in new media etc. If some of the avenue chosen involves community-level participation, I'd imagine that the CRTC would permit the station to take measures to save itself. College programs already heavily involve local companies with various kinds of expertise. My ideas here would be in keeping with that.

And I agree with some of RadioAaron's sentiment in terms of bureaucracies unable to adjust quickly and adeptly, and thus too little too late. I've marveled over the years at newspapers and commercial radio companies staying the course when they should be adapting and moving swiftly. Anyhow, my attitude is: Throw in the towel and you've lost the game. At least try...

Smart organizations would have at least a small dedicated internal team tasked solely with mapping out the future and coming up with ways to steer the company going forward.