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!
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