Mark MacLeod
Encyclopedia
Mark MacLeod is a career Canadian non-profit radio developer. He is best known for securing a series of radio licences for the Aboriginal Voices
Radio Network in major cities across Canada
.
MacLeod managed his first non-profit radio station in Sackville, New Brunswick (CHMA) at the age of 19. After working at radio stations in Halifax (CKDU) and Guelph (CFRU), and serving as president of the Canadian National Campus and Community Radio Association
, he left Canada to head the American National Association of College Broadcasters
.
In 1998, he helped Gary Farmer
, John Matthews and others found the Aboriginal Voices
Radio Network.
Aboriginal Voices
Aboriginal Voices Radio Network is a Canadian national radio network with licensed radio stations in nine Canadian metropolitan areas, all which are licensed under the calls of Toronto flagship station CKAV-FM...
Radio Network in major cities across Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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MacLeod managed his first non-profit radio station in Sackville, New Brunswick (CHMA) at the age of 19. After working at radio stations in Halifax (CKDU) and Guelph (CFRU), and serving as president of the Canadian National Campus and Community Radio Association
National Campus and Community Radio Association
The National Campus and Community Radio Association/L'Association nationale des radios étudiantes et communautaires is a non-profit organization of campus radio and community radio stations in Canada....
, he left Canada to head the American National Association of College Broadcasters
National Association of College Broadcasters
The National Association of College Broadcasters , was founded in 1988 by students at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Jumpstarted by a $300,000 grant from the now-defunct CBS Foundation, thanks to connections through the father of co-founder Doug Liman, NACB became the first trade...
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In 1998, he helped Gary Farmer
Gary Farmer
- History :Farmer was born in Ohsweken, Ontario into the Cayuga nation and Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois Confederacy. Farmer attended Syracuse University and Ryerson Polytechnic University, where he studied photography and film production....
, John Matthews and others found the Aboriginal Voices
Aboriginal Voices
Aboriginal Voices Radio Network is a Canadian national radio network with licensed radio stations in nine Canadian metropolitan areas, all which are licensed under the calls of Toronto flagship station CKAV-FM...
Radio Network.
External links
- 1. "Promise of Performance: Why CKDU-FM is becoming a better alternative" from New Works Magazine, 1986. http://www.tranquileye.com/fog/ckdu_1985_1988/promise_of_performance_1986.html
- 2. "NCRA/ANREC Appoints New Development Director". http://www.ncra.ca/homefiles/news.cfm?ShowYear=2005
- 3. "AVR network seeks government money" http://www.ammsa.com/windspeaker/topnews-Feb-2005.html
- 4. Mark MacLeod at zoominfo.com http://www.zoominfo.com/people/Macleod_Mark_86876759.aspx