Welcome To Our New Website

← CKUT’s staff newsletter Spurious Radiation announced the station’s first internet connection 32 years ago.

Hello and welcome to our new website. Over the past few years we’ve been working behind the scenes on the technical side of things to support a more modern online version of our station and to make it easier for everyone on the outside to see what’s happening on the inside.

Curious what tracks a show is playing? The new site allows programmers to post complete playlists for their episodes. Here’s a full list of shows who are already taking advantage of these playlisting capabilities.

Our programmers are also now able to title their episodes in our archives so you can spot special guests, features, themes, etc.

Listeners can make user accounts (see the top right corner) to comment on radio shows, chat with other listeners, “favourite” songs to revisit later, and more.

Our Music, Spoken Word, and Time Capsule blogs are all revamped from the ground up and stocked with posts to peruse.

Spot a bug or have a question? Please write us at production@ckut.ca and stay tuned as we continue to roll out some updates in the next few weeks.

CKUT is Hiring An IT Coordinator

Come work with us!

The IT (Information Technology) Coordinator is a part-time position (20-25 hrs weekly at $19.83/hr). It includes a benefits package of 4 weeks paid vacation, Winter Break, 10 sick days and 3 personal days, as well an $715 annual health stipend. Per station policy, the wage and stipend will increase either by 2% or the Quebec Consumer Price Index – whichever is higher – annually on June 1st.

The IT Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the station’s IT (information technology) systems, providing technical support to staff and volunteers, and contributing to the station’s collective management.

The IT Coordinator is a member of CKUT’s Steering Committee, a non-hierarchical collective management group consisting of staff and volunteers which meets weekly to organize the daily operations of the station. The Steering Committee is responsible for the overall management of the station, including human resources, financial objectives, long term visioning and yearly projects.

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Ms. Benn Hosts The Montreal Sessions All February

Tune in every Tuesday this month for Ms. Benn’s annual takeover of The Montreal Sessions for Black History Month with her show Heal, Black Girl, Heal.

A History of CKUT Print Publications

CKUT’s archiving team has been hard at work over the past couple years exploring the station’s many nooks and crannies. CKUT’s print publications are among the things we’ve dug up.

Krak was a full length citywide newsprint publication founded by staff at CFRM (pre-CKUT) in the station’s earliest years from 1986-88. Check it out here for lots of music coverage and chatter about what the station was about to become.

Statik (fka Static Barking) picked up where Krak left off in 1988 and expanded and contracted over the years from a full newsprint-sized behemoth to a humble single sheet of folded paper. There’s some great graphics and insightful editorials and interviews among the pages. Click here to check out the copies of Statik we found in the attic.

Program Guides are typically just a single sheet of paper used for telling the world about what was on the air any certain year. Trace the station’s programming history and graphic design trends by visiting our collection here.

Please contact archivist@ckut.ca with any questions, requests, or contributions to our archives.

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE CHARTS ::: JAN 24, 2023

black ox orchestar, CAN, Mauvey, Weyes Blood, Rene Lussier, Zoh Amba, James Brandon Lewis, Satoko Fuji, and more.

New Playlist Functions on ckut.ca

Programmers can now upload public tracklists (which we also use for SOCAN reporting) to share details about the music or features they are playing on their shows.

(If you’re not seeing playlists links in the archives of your favourite program it means they aren’t entering the info.)

Some hosts are using the system for nuts and bolts info like The Magic Roundabout, Free Kick, The Sleepy King, Folk Directions, Howls From Hell, or Terminal 5.

And others are stuffing them full of info and album art like Tuyaa, Jazz Amuck, All Things McGill, Cha Cha Cha In Blue, Metallic Montreal, Drastic Plastic, Modular Systems, and You Need A Heart To Live 2.

Cha Cha Cha In Blue celebrates its 34th Anniversary!

Hats off to Cha Cha Cha In Blue for 34 years of great Blues programming on CKUT.

Po B. K. Lomami's "The House of Kinshasa"

Check out a stunning autobiographical episode of Radio Is Dead, produced in August by CKUT intern Pauline Lomami. Weaving together audio from CKUT’s archives and a phone call with her parents, Pauline relates a snippet of the experiences and trajectories of the Congolese diaspora of their generation in Belgium.

Po B. K. Lomami (Pauline Batamu Kasiwa Lomami) is a self-taught undisciplinary artist, art administrator, and artistic and public programmer. They are a Congodescendant from Belgium currently based in Tiohtià:ke-Mooniyang-Montreal. Exploring Afrofuturist principles and methodologies, Lomami’s art practice revolves around the displacement of work, the becoming of their subjectivity, and the possible collective futures with black, crip, queer and Afrofeminist perspectives.

Free City Radio's Live Broadcast From Artexte

We packed our bags for a live remote broadcast of Free City Radio from Artexte’s Sonic Fields of Reflection exhibition, highlighting the legacies and potentialities of sound as a carrier of information, histories, and experiences in the field of contemporary art.

Longtime host Stefan Christoff was joined in the exhibition by curator Mojeanne Behzadi and artist Martín Rodríguez.