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DATE March 13, 2023
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A History of CKUT’s Funding Drive

Since 1990, CKUT has held an annual funding drive where we ask our listeners to donate and help keep the station alive and well.

Here are some of our favourite Funding Drive moments from our archives. We’ll be adding more as we find them.

1990-1999:

2000:

2001-2010:

2011-2020:

2021-2023:

Featured Archives

July 25, 2024  2024 Special Programming The Montreal Sessions

Blank Shots Episode Zero


Join Alex and Ben of local show promo duo Sick Of Fun take calls, secrets, and play some tunes while plugging a few upcoming shows. Don't miss the DULF Fundraiser on Saturday July 27 at Sotternea. More info on Instagram: @dulfsolidarity_eastcoast

July 11, 2024  2024 Whiskey Tears

Whiskey Tears – with Cachou


A prime example of live, late night radio - mr cachou bikes down to the station and puts on a show (featuring live performance for Hour #2). "L’ambivalence de ces heures matinales me permettent d’offrir un bagage musical éclectique. Sillonnant à travers mon passé, mes réflexions et mes attachements, je guide les auditeur.ices vers l’appréciation du moment présent."

July 10, 2024  2024 Local Journalism Initiative Stories

Local Journalism Initiative Stories – Emergency broadcast: McGill encampment clearing


Early Wednesday morning, while it was still dark, SPVM and private security descended on McGill campus. Over the next several hours, McGill’s Popular University Encampment was dismantled, its residents forced out. CKUT has interviews with campers and folks who came out in solidarity on Wednesday.

July 9, 2024  2024 Harmony Express

Harmony Express – Jazz Fest Chronicles


One of CKUT's most intrepid reporters was out and about all week at JAZZ FEST and hit the airwaves to tell the tale.

July 3, 2024  2024 If You Got Ears

If You Got Ears – with Tuuya


Too Loud for the Crowd Vol. 9 - A Sampling of the Worldwide Metal Underground [hosted by Heckhammer] ... must listen mid-day doom.

June 30, 2024  2021 QueerCorps Special Programming

all doggos go to heaven – the Blair Lauren memorial episode of Queercorps


Our amazing, sweet, kind, talented friend Blair passed away in November 2021 and we put together this show for their memorial on December 6, 2021. We're featuring it today, on June 30, 2024, because it's their birthday. To hear all of Blair's music, go to https://blarchive.org/ Blair forever. Happy birthday Blair <3

June 26, 2024  2024 Palestinian Coverage Sounds of Resistance

Sounds of Resistance – June 26


Samaa Elibyari interviews former diplomat Ian Thomas Shaw, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law Western University, Michael Lynk, Rosemary Whalley and more.

June 25, 2024  2024 Soul Perspectives

Soul Perspectives – with Shakeel Phinn


Soul P has been doing shows celebrating Black fathers all June - tune in for this week's episode live from Westhaven Community Centre featuring special guest - Canadian Super Middleweight professional boxer Shakeel Phinn, also known as The Jamaican Juggernaut.

June 19, 2024  2024 Radyo Kapwa

Radyo Kapwa – Pride Edition


Radyo Kapwa continues their amazing weekly programming... their 99th episode is focused on Pride, featuring talks w/ Vero, Lorra & Desiree.

June 19, 2024  2024 All Da Way Live

All Da Way Live – Interview with SKANDAL


The legendary Skandal featured in an in-depth interview about all things Canadian hip-hop.

June 19, 2024  2024 Jazz Euphorium

Jazz Euphorium – Jazz Puns Host Andy Williams


The Jazz Puns hit the air with very special guest the professor Andy Williams, longtime host of The Magic Roundabout (fka The Goods) live in the studio.

June 18, 2024  2024 The Montreal Sessions

The Montreal Sessions – ZMAGRYA


DJs Zina and Casakobrae present killer Maghrebi Electro and Hip Hop Fusions live from the studio.

June 14, 2024  2024

LegalEase – Welcome To The New Show!


Jack chats with transfeminine jurist and activist Celeste Trianon about law as harm reduction, helping trans people navigate government bureaucracy for name and gender marker changes through the Trans ID Clinic, and more.

June 12, 2024  2024 Gay & Grey

Gay & Grey – Pride Special


Gay & Grey Montreal is a social, mutual aid and sensitization network for English-speaking 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals over the age of 50 in Montreal and the surrounding area. Tune in for this episode focusing on the Pride movement.

June 12, 2024  2024 If You Got Ears

If You Got Ears – DJ Frog and Gentle Jester


A snake with legs... Frogo invites Gentle Jester downtown to the studio for an afternoon trip thru experimental, traditional, and caller-requested sounds.

June 6, 2024  2024 Special Programming Upstage

Upstage Live at Fringe Park


Upstage goes to Fringe Park to meet with: Aussies Shane and Joe of Vehicle, Oren Safdie on his Ken Dryden tribute, Iris Behr of Hacks on her near deaths experiences, Toxique Trottoir's community-sourced Pitit Ayiti and Lou Laurence sings for us!

June 5, 2024  2024 All Da Way Live

All Da Way Live – NEW HIP-HOP 2024


DJ Pro-V live from the studios with a full tracklist. Rainmen, Loe Pesci, Masta Ace & Marco Polo ...

June 5, 2024  2024 If You Got Ears

If You Got Ears – with Legzz


Proper ear testers from Legzz featuring Dj Narciso, Elysia Crampton, Teya Logos, SALEM and more.

June 4, 2024  2024 The Tunnel

The Tunnel – I don’t wanna lose your dub


Deep nodding dubs on a Monday night with a full tracklist.

June 4, 2024  2024 The Montreal Sessions

The Suoni Sessions – Punk and Problems


Sick of Fun and Suoni Per Il Popolo present two hours of rowdy daytime radio. Featuring live calls... hijinx... and a live in studio performance from White Knuckle. Check out the episode now and stay tuned for the video...

June 3, 2024  2024 Show For Children

Show For Children – 08-19-1987


Noises from domains which should be left undisturbed. Host spookyrat continues to throw it back to the heyday of late night FM transmissions with more murky unknowables.

May 28, 2024  2024 Soul Perspectives

Soul Perspectives – Teen Talk Live


As we conclude our celebration of Black Mothers in May one of our guests' for tonight is Amanda Benn. A dancer, choreographer, leader, long-standing community and youth worker. These are the titles that Amanda is deeply rooted in. Above all these roles, Amanda has become a mother which has shifted her perspective in everything in life, enabling her to explore deeper purpose in the arts.

May 22, 2024  2024 Lo-signal

Lo Signal – DJ Hagalaz


An eclectic trip with Hagalaz featuring Tonstartssbandht, Palais Schaumburg, Boards of Canada, and... Gran Turismo Sport (OST).

May 21, 2024  2024 The Tunnel

The Tunnel – A Moment Long Gone w/ Goblin


Bogdan Raczynski, Boy Harsher, Nitzer Ebb, Siouxsie and more Monday night jams than you can shake a stick at + a full tracklist.