CHSR-FM

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CHSR-FM

Broadcast area	Fredericton, New Brunswick
Branding	CHSR 97.9 FM
Slogan	Your Access to the Airwaves
First air date	January 24, 1981 (origins go back to the 1950s)
Frequency	97.9 MHz (FM)
Format	Campus radio/Community radio
ERP	250 W
Owner	CHSR Broadcasting Inc.
Website	http://www.unb.ca/chsr/

CHSR is a Canadian community radio station in Fredericton, New Brunswick with an effective radiated power of 250 watts. The broadcast signal is also streamed live on the internet.

Most of its members are students at the University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University (New Brunswick), however, it is a community station with many non-student volunteers. Its broadcast studio and record library are located in the Student Union Building (the SUB) which is shared by the two institutions.

The organization now known as CHSR was founded in the late 1950s, and officially went on-air January 22, 1961 as Radio UNB. It is one of the oldest community radio stations in Atlantic Canada and boasts the largest music library east of Montreal, although Fredericton is much smaller than other communities in the Atlantic Region. The library holds a large variety of musical genres, on a variety of formats (vinyl, cassettes, compact discs, etc.) from the past six decades.

Like many student media organizations, the relationship with various university, student and community leaders were occasionally strained. One of the more persistent sources of disputes was largely resolved with an agreement signed in 1999, which stabilized CHSR's largest source of funding: undergraduate students at the University of New Brunswick. The new agreement requires a signed petition and a referendum to change or remove the media fee, whereas previously funding could be (and once was) removed by a simple motion of Student Union Council.

As a community radio station housed on a university campus, CHSR makes an extra effort to reach out to the off-campus community, playing local content and providing on-site training for new DJs who later are able to host their own show.

A founding member of the national community broadcasters collective, the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA), CHSR remains an active member of the alternative media, including participation in the NCRA's Dig Your Roots project. CHSR is also a voting member of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).

CHSR is licensed to broadcast by the Canadian government's broadcast regulatory agency, the CRTC.

1 Long-running Shows/Broadcasts
2 Past Notable Shows/Broadcasts
3 Other station slogans
4 Recent CHSR Broadcast Licence Decision(s)
5 See also
6 External link

[edit] Long-running Shows/Broadcasts

Ashes, Paper & Beans highlights Canadian spoken word talent; hosted by Joe Blades.
Maple Hagis with David Pirie gives you the news and weather next to contemporary music from Ireland, Scotland and Canada.
On Diversions Adrian Parks plays Classical music (Renaissance to contemporary Canadian) every Sunday .
'Strictly Hip Hop' With host DJ STV (Steve Hodgson) has been running since the early ninties.

[edit] Past Notable Shows/Broadcasts

Rhythm People exposed the listenership to the music of the Caribbean. Mikie (D'Archangel) Sutherland, plays Reggae, Calypso, Soca, R&B, and Hip Hop. In 2000, The long-running show won a Marconi College Radio Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Speciality Programming.
Freedom 50 Radio focused on the community of people over the age of 50. CHSR received the Standard Broadcasting Award for Excellence in Community Involvement for its role in bringing Freedom 50 Radio to the airwaves.
The Groove — Audio yearbook produced in 1965. It sold for $2.50. Five hundred copies were printed, and included excerpts of Dr. Colin B. Mackay's address to the freshmen, sports, Winter Carnival, and excerpts from the Red 'n Black Revue, including a song by a young Anne Murray.
According with Carmen was a long-running show featuring "the best in old Country, Pop, Bajan, Cajun, Irish, Newfoundland and other Island music." Host Carmen Kilburn welcomed live guests and special requests. He died in 2005.