In 2006, while in Kingston visiting family, I was able to check out CFRC's studios at Carruthers Hall. Just inside the station entrance was a display of vintage equipment, and in the two control rooms, lots of gear, and no real automation in sight, just a Mac with iTunes to play recorded content. What impressed me the most was the acoustics in the rooms - no echo/reflections at all!

Campus radio for me was a good stepping stone to commercial radio, first with a Grade 12 co-op placement at Trent Radio in Peterborough, followed by more than a year on Loyalist College's CJLX. The latter was primarily a "teaching station" for the college's radio broadcasting and broadcast journalism students, mostly programmed like a commercial station, and when I was there, was the only station in the area playing any kind of rock format... 'LX ran rock/alternative for the majority of the week, with a maximum of 25% hits, not counting newer Canadian hits.

We in the radio class of '03 had a lot of fun running CJLX in the 2002-2003 academic year, and it was one of my favourite times in the early part of my radio career.

College radio represents the headwaters of the industry. There are efforts by some to eliminate it. These must be crushed.