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35th Anniversary


Check out the video of our 35th Anniversary Dinner!

CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 1)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 2)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 3)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 4)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 5)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 6)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 7)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 8)
CKCU 93.1 FM 35th Anniversary Banquet (Part 9)
Messages From Alumni:

From: Andrew Caddell

Matthew

On the weekend, I contributed $135 and challenged all alumni from 1975 to do the same.

Pass that along...

And I will be attending the reunion. Make sure you get all hands on deck for that one and lots of press beforehand. When you think of it, there are a pile of interesting people who are grads from that 1975 CKCU "class". Rob Braide, Chris Henry, Sheryl --- Randy Williams, Eric Dormer, Jeff Green, Derek Diorio, Neil Bregman, John Koensgen ....and many more. !!!!

message from Malcolm Bromley

Matt: Just a personal reflection of some CKCU moments in the first years of CKCU-FM from an original staffer.

To the 'Pipes' and producers of 93.1's past and present: Warm Wishes from Victoria in the Republic of VanIsle! I had hoped to join you for the 35th to revel and reminisce, but alas, 'twas not meant to be! I remember listening to a 'home-made' CKCU cassette while 'zoning-out' in an abandoned building in France - it was a 'call' from some audiophonic burn artists far away on another continent, imploring me to re-join the Radio Carleton crew to launch 93.1 on air! 'The Loon' I were tag-teamed to pilot the all-night M and M Revue ('melts in your mind; not in your hand') for 7 hours of sonic Sunday sojourns. Later came the francophone exposés of Rendez-vous, your Pals Al and Mal hosting Waster's Choice, and the exclusive week-long live coverage of The World Symposium on Humanity produced by Mitch and your's truly from Toronto, featuring most of the superb CKCU-FM public affairs department of 1979. As for extra curricular activities, lest we forget The Blues Cruise to Montreal, Bon Voyage Harmonium to Kingston, and the M and M Revue's Christmas Cruise - an audio auto adventure into oblivion via Montreal and the Eastern Townships! To misquote an old song:"I was so much younger then; I'm wiser than that now!" Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to the FM airwaves on 93.1 over these past 35 years! In spirit I'll be with you - hope to see some of you Radio Carleton dinosaurs before our 'earthly exits'. Yours, with much affection, Mal Bromley (aka 'the Big Man').

Hard to believe, but this coming November, CKCU-FM celebrates our 35th year of "Riding the Airwaves"! To put it in perspective, 1975 also saw the fall of Saigon, the capture of Patty Hearst, the first episode of Saturday Night Live (with CKCU Alumnus Dan Aykroyd), the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, and the birth of Tiger Woods. "One Flew Over the Cukoos Nest" was the big winner at the Academy Awards, and we tuned in to a hot new TV cop show called "Starsky and Hutch". The Disco boom was still a year away, and hip music fans were in the basement listening to "Wish You Were here" by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti", Bob Dylans' "Blood on the Tracks" and Springsteen's epic "Born to Run". Ottawa music fans had to string up their cable to the radio to pick up CHOM in Montreal to hear this great music, but that all changed on November 14, 1975. That night Joni Mitchell's "You Turn Me On (I'm a Radio)" poured out of radio speakers in Ottawa, heralding the arrival of Ottawa's first FM rock and roll radio station. 35 years later the adventure continues. Thousands of volunteers have ventured to the 5th floor of the Unicentre to lend their hands, hearts and minds to keeping the dream alive. We invite all our friends to join us to celebrate the 35th! To receive updates and to connect with alumni join our CKCU 35th Anniversary group on Facebook or our 35th Anniversary Message Board



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CKCU Arrives

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David Mowbray on Specialty Programming

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David Mowbray on Pre-FM Days

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Lizzie's Dollhouse Commercial

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