Updates and news from CJMP

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Tony Colton

Firstly, we’d like to welcome Lowell Boran to the Board of Directors in the portfolio of Communications Director.  Lowell will be wrangling the many arms that constitute the veritable octopus that is CJMP.   From harnessing the power of social media, to ensuring events and meetings are publicized, Lowell is our guy.  Drop him a line here and say hello!

The 'Cranhall'

Big news on the programming front includes the immanent arrival of the ARC-15 broadcast console, made possible by a very generous gift from the Cranberry Community Hall Association(CCHA).  The CCHA’s substantial gift of $9,000 will pay for the broadcast console with the remainder earmarked to help us increase our signal.  Watch this space for more information and photos of large novelty cheque!!

Here’s a short list of other happenings:

  • Our Signals Committee has been formed to pursue the necessary requirements for signal enhancement. Want to know more? Contact the PRCRS Board.
  • An Operations Team continues to work closely with our Director of Operations Angela LaFortune.  Interested in joining?  Contact Angela.
  • Grants season has sprung and our little elves will be working diligently creating proposals and filling in applications.  Wanna be an elf? Contact the PRCRS Board.
  • Our schedule continues to blossom: check it out!
  • Not to mention the work of the Policies Committee (want to join? Contact them at: http://blog.cjmp.ca/contact-us/contact-the-policies-team/)
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Select CJMP Programs Available as Podcasts

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Rabideye
Listen anytime/anywhere

It’s a great new development for CJMP, your very own Community Radio station in downtown Powell Riviera! Not only do we have close two dozen live programs on air, and not only can you:

  • Listen in on your radio or mobile device at 90.1 FM
  • Tune in via cable at 89.1 Shaw Cable
  • Listen to us online via live streaming with six separate streams…

BUT now you can also catch an increasing number of our live shows via our new podcast page! The link will reside inside our “Listen” tab on our website.

What does this mean?

It means that you will are now able to download your favourite program and listen to it whenever you want! It’s a big step and it will take a little while to get the kinks out, and to get programmers on board, but it’s all the more reason to support CJMP! Obtain or Renew your membership, sponsor us or advertise on CJMP, or donate your skills, time, ideas, equipment — anything to help support the station and  this project spearheaded by our volunteer extraordinaire Terry Joyce, with the continued support of many of our hard-working volunteer programmers.

Check it out now!

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Shoegazer Special Friday March 9th, 5-7PM

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Rabideye

Get ready for a wall of sound!

This week only, CJMP presents a special program during Bad Karen’s Everyday Is Like Sunday (EDILS) Friday, 5PM-7PM starring programmers David Parkinson (The Unending Subtleties of River Power Fri 3PM-5PM) and Kamandi (Cowbell Radio Fri 7-PM-8PM).

It’s a long-awaited and much-anticipated Shoegazer Special! Both David and Kamadi will have their own solo programs as well on either side of this 5-7PM slot. Don’t miss it!

From Wikipedia:

Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991. The British music press—particularly NME and Melody Maker—named this style shoegazing because the musicians in these bands stood relatively still during live performances in a detached, introspective, non-confrontational state, hence the idea that they were gazing at their shoes. The heavy use of effects pedals also contributed to the image of performers looking down at their feet during concerts.

The shoegazing sound is typified by significant use of guitar effects, and indistinguishable vocal melodies that blend into the creative noise of the guitars. [...] Recent times have seen a renewed interest in the genre among “nu-gaze” bands.

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John Silver Presents: The Great Composers

Posted on March 1, 2012 by John Silver
The Great Composers starts Tues. March 6 @ 4:00PM

Program Title: The Great Composers

Host: John Silver

Tuesdays 4 – 5 pm on CJMP 90.1 FM

FIRST SHOW MARCH 6, 2012 @ 4:00 pm

Our illustrious Program Director, Zöe Ludski, had been bugging me for some time to present a classical music show and, once I accepted, I then had to decide on a title.  Happily my fellow Board director, Angela La Fortune, came up with one that I felt was really terrific – THE GREAT COMPOSERS.

Some of you may know me as an ardent opera fan but THE GREAT COMPOSERS will not include opera.  Instead it will feature just about all other forms of classical music.  (A separate show devoted entirely to opera is in the works.)

I hope you will join me at four o’clock on Tuesday afternoons for symphonies, concertos, chamber music, solo instrumental music and who knows what else, all from the classical repertoire.  It should also be a good lead-in to the show that follows – “Art Matters” with Imtiaz Taj.

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New Program starts March 1: Into the Ether with Luna

Posted on February 27, 2012 by Rabideye

Luna

Program Title: Into the Ether with Luna

Host: Diana Patricia Pacheco

Thursdays from noon to 1 pm on CJMP 90.1 

FIRST SHOW MARCH 1, 2012 @ NOON

I decided to name the show “Into the Ether with Luna”, because the Ether represents to me the un-manifested infinity, the fifth element, allowing the space to talk and to bring up topics that would normally be classified as out of the box. We are going to be talking about holistic health sciences, metaphysics and New Age.

I will be giving an angel card reading every week. I would also like to share with you a useful Spanish expression that you can take with you at the end of the show – and because I am in love with love, I would like to open the phone line (call 604-485-0088) so that you can call me at the station to send a message to a loved one, to your partner, a secret lover, the girl behind the counter, whatever your heart calls you to do.

You can also send an email (onair@cjmp.ca) and I will read it on air. Please tune in. I hope you have fun. ~ Diana

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