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May 14, 2025 2025 Older Women Live Rose Marie Whalley

A History of Older Women Live with Rose Marie Whalley

From A Piece of Chalk to the Microphone - A lookback at OWL’s 20 years at CKUT with Rose Marie Whalley!
July 30, 2024 2018 30th Anniversary

CKUT’s Time Capsule ‘Zine

The Time Capsule blog in a nutshell. 30 Years of stories and station history crammed into 100 pages of paper and PDF. Check it out for a crash course in CKUT history.
July 30, 2024 1986 1987 1988

A History of Krak

KRAK was a citywide print publication started by staff at CFRM (pre-CKUT) which ran from 1986-1988 and gives a look into the scene which spawned the station that became CKUT.
July 29, 2024 A History Of... Statik

A History of Statik

CKUT's archiving team has been hard at work over the past couple years - check out a collection of old CKUT print publications and get a glimpse into the station's history.
July 29, 2024 1988 2024 Amandla

A History of Amandla

An interview with Gwen Schulman, one of the founding members of Amandla!, CKUT's long running African current affairs program - on the air from 1988 to 2024.
July 28, 2024 1980s 1990s 2000s

A History Of CKUT Program Guides

Trace the station's programming history and graphic design trends year by year with a look at all the programming guides we found in our archives.
July 27, 2024 2023 A History Of... Funding Drive

A History of CKUT’s Funding Drive

Posters, flyers, odds and ends from our annual Funding Drive event, going back to 1991.
July 26, 2024 1989 1990 1991

A History of Gay Day

On the 34th Anniversary of CKUT's 1989 Gay Day event, we take a look into what inspired it, how it happened, and who was involved.
July 25, 2024 1990 1997 2002

A History of CKUT Websites

With CKUT's new 2023 website launching this week, we take a look back at the history of our station on the web, going back to 1990.
December 22, 2023 2023 Butcher T Howard "Stretch" Carr

CKUT On The Map at Afromusée

When CKUT it hit the FM airwaves some 35 years ago, it quickly became an important voice for Montreal’s diverse Black communities. This was thanks to numerous radio shows that promoted concerts, festivals and events important to the community. Some of these shows have been on the air ever since.
August 10, 2023 2023 Butcher T

CBC’s Duke Eatmon Interviews Butcher T for Hip Hop’s 50th Anniversary

CBC's Duke Eatmon brought a camera crew and emcees Mizery and Meryem Saci down to the station to talk with Butcher T about the past present and future of the culture.
April 11, 2023 2023 Butcher T

Montreal’s Hip Hop History with Butcher T

Butcher T has been credited as being the person who brought hip hop to Montreal – by regular trips to New York City – hauling music over the border to bring to the record store he worked at, “Stretch’s Records”.
December 15, 2022 DJ The Most High Latin Music Mondays

Interview with Latin Music Mondays

Chloe sits down with past and present LMM hosts, Rufo Valencia and DJ The Most High, for a wide ranging interview.
December 15, 2022 2022 WEFUNK

An Interview With WEFUNK

Chloe speaks to DJ Static and Professor Groove of WEFUNK and discusses the origins of the show, its beginnings on the internet, and its international reach.
November 30, 2021 2020 2020s 2021

Quarantine Conversations on West Indian Rhythms

An ongoing series on West Indian Rhythms, chatting weekly with reggae, calypso and soca artists.
November 30, 2021 1980s 1990s 2000s

A History of CKUT Programming

Here is a list of every* show that has aired on CKUT since 1987.
June 18, 2021 2020s 2021 Joni Sadler

RIP Joni

The CKUT fam lost one of its finest.
March 25, 2021 2020 2020s 2021

The Global Pandemic – CKUT on Remote

Thanks to innovations in technology, grants, wires, and gear, we set up all our shows to keep on broadcasting from their respective locations while the station remained closed.
February 19, 2020 2020 2020s Su Real

Oral History with Former CKUT Funding Coordinator Suhrid Manchanda aka Su Real

Suhrid was a force in Montreal’s music community before decamping to the United States and eventually to (his motherland) New Dehli, India.
August 29, 2019 1980s 1990s 2019

K7 Cassette Archive on Venus Radio

CKUT is digitizing our amazing cassette collection. Take a listen to some of the gems we found. Presented by our archivist Jack. 100% Can Con.
February 4, 2019 2010s 2019 Funky Revolutions

Protest and Pedagogy – Funky Revolutions

In 1969 a group of students occupied the 9th floor computer center of Sir George Williams University (currently known as Concordia University) to object to racial bias in academia. Funky Revolutions looks back at the protest.
August 19, 2018 2010s 2018 30th Anniversary

Oral History with Longtime CKUT Host Andy Williams

The Goods radio show went live from Casa Del Popolo for an interview with host Andy Williams, conducted by Doug Miller.
August 13, 2018 2010s 2018 30th Anniversary

Oral History with Former Station Manager Martha Marie Kleinhams

Martha Marie Kleinhans was one of the key driving forces behind CKUT's FM 1987 licence application and move to FM.
July 16, 2018 2010s 2018 30th Anniversary

Oral History with Former CKUT Music Coordinator Andrea Jane Cornell

In this interview she talks about her passion for the Music Library, the massive toolbox of skills she acquired and some of the more unusual challenges she faced while at CKUT.

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