CKUT-FM is the official campus

Campus radio

Campus radio is a type of radio station that is run by the students of a college, university or other educational institution. Programming may be exclusively by students, or may include programmers from the wider community in which the radio station is based...

 community radio

Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

 station of McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

. It can be heard at 90.3 FM in Montreal, 91.7 on cable, or on the CKUT website. CKUT's FM signal, broadcast from a tower on the top of Mount Royal

Mount Royal

Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name.The mountain is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and the Appalachians...

, reaches as far as the Eastern Townships

Eastern Townships

The Eastern Townships is a tourist region and a former administrative region in south-eastern Quebec, lying between the former seigneuries south of the Saint Lawrence River and the United States border. Its northern boundary roughly followed Logan's Line, the geologic boundary between the flat,...

 and upstate New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. CKUT is consistently voted as the Best Radio Station in The Montreal Mirror's

Montreal Mirror

Montreal Mirror is a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with a circulation of 70,000, and reaches a quarter of a million readers per week. It is published by Communications Gratte-Ciel Ltée....

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

Freeform (radio format)

Freeform, or freeform radio, is a radio station programming format in which the disc jockey is given total control over what music to play, regardless of music genre or commercial interests. Freeform radio stands in contrast to most commercial radio stations, in which DJs have little or no...

 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

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

, Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

, and Haitian Creole

Haitian Creole language

Haitian Creole language , often called simply Creole or Kreyòl, is a language spoken in Haiti by about twelve million people, which includes all Haitians in Haiti and via emigration, by about two to three million speakers residing in the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada, France, Cayman Islands, French...

.

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

Homelessness in Canada

Homelessness in Canada has grown in size and complexity in recent years. While historically known as a crisis only of urban centres such as Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, and Montreal, the increasing incidence of homelessness in the suburbs is necessitating new services and resources.The demographic...

 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
• Country Classics Hour, established by Ross Harvey; currently hosted by Little Andy and Katie Moore
• Dobbin's Den, hosted by the late Len Dobbin
  Len Dobbin
  Leonard Montgomery Ross Dobbin was a jazz radio broadcaster and critic. A native of Montreal, Canada, Dobbin was involved with many Montreal jazz music events for decades and was active in the jazz community as a broadcaster, radio producer, reviewer and photographer...
  
  
• 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.
• Jazz Amuck hosted by john b since 1996
• International Radio Report, hosted by Janice Laws & Sheldon Harvey
• Latin Time - Tiempo Latino, hosted by Sergio Martinez
• LegalEase, hosted by a collective of McGill law students
• Macondo & El Club de los Feos, hosted by Juan-Carlos Quintana, DJ Irwin Franco, and Diego Puente "El Farandulero"
• Movement Museum, hosted by Chris 'Zeke' Hand, Finn Upham and Jon Crellin.
• Native Solidarity News, hosted by the Native Solidarity News Collective
• New Shit, a collective program hosted by the Music Department
• No I'm Iron Man, hosted by Dan Maxham and Matthew Maxham
• Off The Hook, hosted by DJ Buddablaze , Revolution and Flow
• Off The Hour, hosted by the Community News Collective
• Roots Rock Rebel, hosted by Aaron Lakoff
• Samedi Midi, hosted by Raymond Laurent
• The Tuesday Morning After, hosted by Edward Yersh
• The Friday Morning After, hosted by Craig Sauve, Josh Hind, Ken McMurray and Amie Watson
• Underground Sounds, hosted by Agata De Santis
• Voice of Korea
• WeFunk
  WEFUNK Radio
  WeFunk is an award-winning weekly radio show held on Montreal's CKUT 90.3, McGill University's radio station since 1996 and online since 1999. The show is usually very light on talk as both DJs Professor Groove and DJ Static play a symbiotic mix of Funk, Soul, R&B and Rap, both old and new.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 Aj
• Your Radio is Broken, hosted by Dj Melon and Rhys Taylor

Voice of Korea

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
  Language exchange
  Tandem language learning is a method of language learning based on mutual language exchange between tandem partners...
  
   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 "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)

Roots Rock Rebel

Roots Rock Rebel is a weekly music program hosted by Aaron Lakoff, which features ska, reggae, soul, and punk music. The show began in an overnight time-slot in 2003 under the name "Rude Rude Radio", and moved into its current timeslot in January 2006 under the name "Roots Rock Rebel". Some of the legendary ska and reggae artists who have been interviewed on Roots Rock Rebel include Lynn Taitt of The Skatalites, Pauline Black of The Selecter, and Hopeton Lewis, who is often credited as the originator of the rocksteady genre. The program airs Wednesday nights from 10pm-12am on CKUT.

External links

• CKUT 90.3 FM official website
• Homelessness Marathon Website
• Rock And Roll Radio official website
• Folk Directions with Gerry Goodfriend
• Official Freekick website
• Dobbin's Den
• Where's the Beat
• CKUT-FM history at Canadian Communications Foundation
  Canadian Communications Foundation
  The Canadian Communications Foundation is a history of Canadian broadcasting for radio and television chronicles and documents. It also provides a history of radio and television stations, including networks, programs, broadcasters and many others....
  
  
• Voice of Korea
• Latin Time/Tiempo latino webpage
• The Tuesday Morning After