CKUT-FM

Infobox Radio Station


name = CKUT-FM
airdate = 1989
frequency = 90.3 MHz
city = Montreal, Quebec
area = Greater Montreal area | format = campus-community
owner = Radio CKUT (non-profit organisation)
erp = 5.6 kW
branding = 90.3 FM CKUT MoNtReal
slogan =
class = B
website = http://www.ckut.ca
callsign_meaning = n/a

CKUT-FM is the official campus community radio station of McGill University. It can be heard at 90.3 FM in Montreal, 91.7 on cable, or on the [http://www.ckut.ca CKUT website] . CKUT's FM signal, broadcast from a tower on the top of Mount Royal, reaches as far as the Eastern Townships and upstate New York. CKUT is consistently voted as the Best Radio Station in "The Montreal Mirror's" Best of Montreal Readers Poll.

CKUT's programming is produced by more than 300 volunteers - McGill students and members of the community. The station also employs a handful of full time and part time coordinators. The station's format is freeform in that each programmer is responsible for choosing music without regard to commercial interests.

A great variety of music and spoken-word shows are broadcast daily in a multiplicity of languages, including English, French, Korean, Hindi, and Haitian Creole.

CKUT established and has for the last three years hosted the annual Canadian Homelessness Marathon. Every February, the marathon broadcasts fourteen hours of live programing on homelessness in Canada from the streets of Montreal.

Programs

Among CKUT's many programs are:

*AACK!!, hosted by Lorrie Edmonds
*Bluegrass Ramblings, hosted by Adam Schwarzenberg
*Caravan, hosted by Samaa Elibyari
*Dobbin's Den, hosted by Len Dobbin
*Freekick, hosted by David Macaulay and Shawn Kennedy
*Folk Directions, hosted by Gerry Goodfriend, that includes 30 minute pre-recorded segments of Folk Roots/Folk Branches, hosted by Mike Regenstreif. Folk Directions replaced Folk Roots/Folk Branches in September 2007.
*The Hearing Trumpet, hosted by Iain Cook
*International Radio Report, hosted by Janice and Steve Karlock
*Latin Time - Tiempo Latino, hosted by Sergio Martinez
*Macondo & El Club de los Feos, hosted by Juan-Carlos Quintana, DJ Irwin Franco, and Diego Puente "El Farandulero"
*Native Solidarity News, hosted by the Native Solidarity News Collective
*No I'm Iron Man, hosted by Dan Maxham and Detroit Burns
*Off The Hook, hosted by DJ Buddablaze , Revolution and Flow
*Off The Hour, hosted by the Community News Collective
*Samedi Midi, hosted by Raymond Laurent
*Underground Sounds, hosted by Agata De Santis
*Voice of Korea
*WeFunk, hosted by Professor Groove and DJ Static
*West Indian Rhythms, hosted by Howard "Stretch" Carr
*Where's the Beat?, hosted by Eliot Handelman with Andie Sigler, and Andrea-jane Cornell

Voice of Korea

"Voice of Korea" [ [http://voko.neoasie.com Official website] for "Voice of Korea"] is an hour-long program broadcast every Tuesday at 2PM. Entirely created by volunteers composed of 1st and 2nd-generation Koreans as well as other Asians, "Voice of Korea" features content for both the local Korean community and local residents through its bilingual (English and Korean) programming.

Each show contains:
* International News
* Local Korean Community News
* Weekly Event Calendar
* Korean Movie Preview
* Korean Culture Feature Story
* Language Exchange for learning Korean and French
* Top 5 Korean movies and songs for the week

Macondo & el Club de los Feos

"Macondo & el Club de los Feos" [ [http://www.macondo.fm Official website] for "Macondo & El Club de los Feos"] "Macondo & El Club de los Feos" is a two hour show that plays Latin music, Salsa, merengue Bachata and Ballads . Show in English, French and Spanish.

The Show is divided in 4 segments:
* El set de Salsa Clásica pal que sabe y el que no que aprenda
* El Haha Mix, Las novedades
* La Pausa Cuchi Cuchi
* Aqui mando yo (we play what you want)

References

External links

* [http://www.ckut.ca CKUT 90.3 FM official website]
* [http://www.ckut.ca/homeless.html Homelessness Marathon Website]
* [http://www.ckutfolk.com Folk Directions with Gerry Goodfriend]
* [http://www.freekick.ca/ Official Freekick website]
* [http://www.vehiculepress.com/montreal/dobbin/dobbin.html Dobbin's Den]
* [http://www.wheresthebeat.net Where's the Beat]