tranquileye free media papers

By Evelyn Messinger, from the early 1990s.

Introduction: Television has played an increasingly significant role in the downfall of Eastern Europe's one-party states. In Poland underground pirate video transmissions kept Solidarity alive for nearly 10 years. Last fall, East Germans judged the effects of their anti-government demonstrations by watching the coverage they received on West German news programs. In Romania, control of the television station is tantamount to control of the government.

A brief report detailing the efforts of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA/ANREC) to the lobby the Ontario government to provide funding for community and student radio stations in the province in 1988 and 1989.

Canadian campus radio history to the formation of the NCRO in the early-1980s.

John Stevenson's submission in response to CRTC Public Notice 1991-118, the review of campus radio.

Exerpt: The commission and college broadcasters had intended to capture something of the 1970s university culture in student radio. But by the early 1980s, the campus environment had changed significantly, and a majority of students were listening to formatted commercial FM radio and enjoying the mainstream music it played. In order to maintain (or in some cases recapture) its vitality, college radio had to latch on to a new genre: new music. At CKDU-FM Halifax they called it the "the Fall of the Bearded Ones." Most campus stations seem to have a story from this period about a music director who went through the record library throwing away huge piles of music. Depending on the station, it was either all the old dinosaur rock and disco, or all the punk and new wave. Regardless, the die had been cast, and "alternative" cameto mean something more narrowly sub-cultural. Instead of an enlightened student body, the audience was now the punks, new mods, and other "alternative" types.

CFRU-FM Corporate Officers, Staff, and Professional Staff, 1991

CFRU 93.3 FM has changed. After more than three years of work by station staff, volunteers, and directors, CFRU has become a Class A1, 250 watt radio station.

Over it's twenty year history, CFRU-FM Radio has evolved from a traditional, hierarchical organization into a network of people and activities connected by lines of communication and accountability.

CFRU-FM recognizes that members of certain groups within society have traditionally had little or not access to electronic media. As a community radio station, CFRU-FM is committed to insuring that every reasonable attempt be made to have the composition of both the paid and unpaid station staff reflect the true diversity of the communities we serve. The station's objective is not to discourage or exclude any individual from participation, but rather to insure equitable representation and renumeration of women and minority groups, and to encourage a wide range of people to become involved with the station. Diversity among the all station staff is crucial to the station's attempts to become a better community service.