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Re: More cuts to University radio station could be the final blow.
You need a job to get experience and experience to get a job.
That, or also, some people just want the hobby of community radio.
Either way, for whatever reason that be, this station needs to stay on the air.
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CKLU in Sudbury is totally listener funded. They air a disclaimer to that fact quite often. They just had a fund drive a few weeks ago. I haven't heard if they met their target .
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CHMR Manager ‘Blindsided’ by MUNSU’s Plans to Cut Funding | VOCM
What's unusual about this story is that the student's union wants the radio station to be shut down. In most of these cases, they're pleading with university brass to save it.
Students' union wants to axe campus radio at Memorial University in Newfoundland
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Never underestimate the relish with which cliques can clash.
The student union at the school I went to got into an ugly pissing match with the student paper. This was years before I attended but there was still much bad blood between the two when I was there.
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CHMR Manager ‘Blindsided’ by MUNSU’s Plans to Cut Funding | VOCM
What's unusual about this story is that the student's union wants the radio station to be shut down. In most of these cases, they're pleading with university brass to save it.
Students' union wants to axe campus radio at Memorial University in Newfoundland
I assume it would depend on whether students are paying for the station as part of their tuition fee (most likely) and whether they're getting any use out of it.
Do college and university students even listen to radio anymore? Campus stations can pull out the well-worn tropes such as "the station is a vital outlet for independent musicians" and "our station is a vital voice in the community." But if those paying for it don't see the worth in it, they shouldn't be expected to prop it up.
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‘We're not going anywhere,' says CHMR-FM after MUN students' union votes to strip its funding
Station manager Rhea Rollmann said it could mean a loss of 60 to 70 per cent of CHMR’s budget, which will have a “massive impact” that will result in job losses, adding a lot of changes will need to happen at the radio station for it carry on.
“We're not going anywhere. We intend to keep going, to keep broadcasting,” Rollmann told CBC Radio’s The St. John’s Morning Show.
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In a March statement, MUNSU said the decision came after feedback from students, with the union also citing low student use and the station's financial deficit.In an email to CBC News Thursday morning, MUNSU's director of external affairs Nathan Gillingham said the the radio station would still receive a $2 student levy — which nets approximately $50,000 a year for the radio station.
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It's not just the station in Newfoundland that's in trouble. The Canadian Press indicates there are stations across the nation - including many here in Ontario - that are struggling in the midst of tough times for universities, and whose futures may be in doubt.
I realize interest in radio in that demo isn't what it used to be, but as someone who was on the air (well, carrier, closed circuit and cable) at the old U. of T. radio, I wouldn't have traded that experience for anything.
Don't touch that dial: Future of Canada's campus radio stations in doubt