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JIM HURCOMB
A MUCH YOUNGER JIM HURCOMB SPINNING THE TUNES LIVE AT THE OTTAWA EX IN LATE 70’S
CKCU-FM, Radio Carleton: It’s inevitable. As we get older we all ask
the “What If?” question. “What If” we had done that when we were younger? “What if” we had turned left rather than right when we got that lucky break? For me, that moment happened in 1973
CURRENT STATION MANAGER MATTHEW CROSIER (L) WITH FORMER MANAGERS PAT NAIGLE, PETER LENNON, RANDY WILLIAMS AND CRAIG MACKIE
Riding the Airwaves for 40 Years. Students’ Association was granted a license from the Canadian Radio and Television Commission. At midnight on November 14, 1975, CKCU-FM (93.1 FM) started riding the airwaves as Canada’s first campus- based, community radio station to the strains of Joni Mitchell’s “You Turn me on (I’m a Radio)” For area music lovers it was a God-
STATION ALUMNI CELEBRATE 40TH ANNIVERSARY IN STUDIO
when I was in second year Journalism at Carleton University. I was bumbling along, with no goal in mind, no career on the backburner. Then I heard Carleton University had a radio station! True, it was only piped through the halls of the campus, and even that was sporadic, but it was a Radio Station!! And since I had spent the majority of my “study time” in High School glued to the radio dial, I had to be there. So I worked up the courage and called the
Program Director and expressed my desire to get a radio show. I called her two weeks later for an update, then two weeks later, and…. you get the picture. I got on the air that Fall, and 43 years later I still have a passion for radio. That’s my “What If?”. The history of CKCU actually goes back
CKCU STUDIO
to the mid-60’s when the Carleton Radio Club put together a weekly public affairs show that ran Sunday nights on CKOY-AM. The leap into the competitive, glamorous
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world of FM, major-market radio came in 1975 when the Carleton University
send. It was the first Ottawa station with a regular mix of current album-rock, Blues, Jazz, Classical and pretty well every style of music imaginable. The so-called “FM Album Rock” format was finally coming to Ottawa! It was also a powerful lifeline to local ethnic groups who could now hear their cultures being served. The public affairs programming ran the gamut from Science to Literature to Film to Sports. It quickly became obvious these were not just University kids messing around with expensive toys. This was “real radio”, so it was no surprise when several CKCU staffers were drafted to create the core of CHEZ-FM when it signed on two years later. There is a great book in here when you
look at the history of CKCU-FM. But while the station is very respectful of its’ past, the focus is always on the present and continued on page 52
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