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Kitchener Station Wants To Charge Volunteers To Work There
CKWR-FM insists it can no longer afford to have people using its equipment if they don't pay for the privilege - even if some of them do shows for the station.
Community radio station wants to charge volunteers
- splunge
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isn't that technically brokered programming then? In direct contravention of the CRTC regs surrounding volunteers and community radio stations?
- Old Codger
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Take their license away first thing tomorrow. Period.
- Peter the K
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They want to charge volunteers for their time while they still have paid staff on-air during the day.
Then again, this is the station that actually had Bob Dearborn on staff for a while.
If, perhaps, they did away with paid on-air staff, that might just help the situation.
- RadioQuiz
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Headline should read - Radio station tries to solve serious problem - people don't like it.
I'm guessing the time period where the paid staff are on the air, is likely the time period that has the highest likelihood of having paid commercials and the timeslots that are being asked to pay - likely have zero chance of having paid commercials.
The headline should be: stuff costs money.
So, would I pay 10 and hour to have a radio station to myself? Yes. More fun than a movie once a week.
I pay 10 buck to play shinny hockey. No one is revolting.
If the volunteers appreciate having the opportunity - they'll pay for the cause. If they think they're stars, they're fooling themselves.
- Old Codger
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It's a great headline for a skidding industry. And I'll bet it was never mentioned that they'd go THIS route when these 'folks' applied for the license...which is really only theirs' on loan. They need to relinquish their grip on it...as do many other companies for varying reasons.
Audiences deserve better. So too do communities.
- mike marshall
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>> Community radio station wants to charge volunteers <<
Geez!! What's next? Negative interest rates at the bank, or something...
- mike marshall
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Now that I think of it, I worked for about the same money at CKKW in 1961.
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RadioQuiz wrote:
So, would I pay 10 and hour to have a radio station to myself? Yes. More fun than a movie once a week.
I pay 10 buck to play shinny hockey. No one is revolting.
If the volunteers appreciate having the opportunity - they'll pay for the cause. If they think they're stars, they're fooling themselves.
That's where you and I differ. If the station is worthy of staying on the air, it should not be the responsibility of the host(s) to come up with $10 per hour (or any fee for that matter) when they're already volunteering their time as is.
Get rid of (all or most of) the paid staff and go all volunteer if money is so tight.
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