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NCRA Indigenous Zine - Content Wanted April 16 Deadline

Hello/Tansi/Salut/Yaw and in many more languages,

The Indigenous committee is putting together a zine about developing PSAs identifying traditional territories, per the action item on the Board’s strategic plan, which arose from the Open Space discussion at the 34th National Campus and Community Radio Conference (“NCRC”) this past June.

60 Second Radio 2016 World Contest Launched!

A world radio competition presented by CHOQ.ca radio - Montreal - 60 SECOND RADIO 2016
"A Calm and Quiet Morning"

Montreal, February 13, 2016. The Montreal university radio station CHOQ.ca is pleased to announce the launch of the second edition of the 60 Second Radio 2016 World Contest. Last year, more than 120 short radio works were submitted by producers from more than fifteen countries in the Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe.

NCRA Presents at CRTC Community TV Hearings

The National Campus and Community Radio Association staff presented to the CRTC on February 3rd, 2016 at the Community TV Hearing.  

The goal of the review is outlined ... [Click title to read more]

NCRA Community Radio Exchange Launched

The NCRA is proud to announce that it has officially released the "NCRA Community Radio Exchange" as of January 20th, 2016. Members and media producers can access the newly launched program at the main page of the ncra.ca website. It features new updates such as..... [click title for more]

2016 Rendez-Vous De La Francophonie

We are excited to have our member stations complete and participate in this years RVF programming.

To help celebrate Rendez-Vous De La Francophonie, the 2016 version has had 22 NCRA member stations participate in producing 30 minutes of audio which will be aired across the producing stations and offered to other NCRA stations between the 11th of January to the end of March....

World Association of Community Radio Broadcaster Meet in Paris

Just as AMARC's week to End Gender Based Violence wraps up, their leadership met in Paris!
"The new AMARC International Board met in Paris to initiate the process for strategic planning towards the implementation of the strategic plan voted by the General Assembly in Ghana in August 2014. The meeting took place in the UNESCO headquarters, in central Paris."

NCRA Sees 2 new Member Stations!

Hello and a big welcome to our newest members WDCR and Gulf Islands Radio!

Our board meeting last week approved the two new groups. Here is some information:

Westbank and District Community Radio broadcasts out of West Kelowna - and has been broadcasting for a few years now. You can see a bit older news clip here. http://www.kelownacapnews.com/news/217126891.html http://ncra.ca/members/member-directory/wdcr

Gulf Islands Radio is a newly formed radio society located on Salt Springs Island, looking to bring back community radio to the BC Island. There hope is to be on the dial by end of 2016.
http://ncra.ca/members/member-directory/gulfisland

Request for Proposals - Developer for Voting System (Dec 8 Deadline)

The National Campus and Community Radio Association is looking to take on a project that is essentially a online system that will assist in using Roberts Rules when at an AGM or planning meeting, to help streamlining discussion and voting. What we are looking to develop in brief is the following.....

2 Brand New Members!

Hello NCRA members!

We are very excited to announce that we have two brand members joining us at the association, we have CKAW - FM, Clearview Community Radio, in Clearview, ON. We want to welcome Sandra Green to the Campus and Community radio community! We've been hearing great things about CKAW and suggest you all go check them out! http://www.clearviewcommunityradio.org/

We are also welcoming CHOQ-Online, a francophone online campus station in Montreal and are attached to UQAM. We are thrilled to have them on board, and looking forward to some great partnership moving forward. CHOQ has a great international project they do each year around radio production, so watch for that information in the next little while about how you can get involved". Dont get CHOQ (UQAM) and CHOQ FM (UofT) mixed up, they are different stations. http://www.choq.ca/

We would like to invite our members to welcome members number 90 and 91 to the NCRA!

NCRA Staff Analysis of CRTC Decision in Burlington

The CRTC recently made a decision to decline the creation of a radio station in Burlington. The Commissioner Raj Shoan issued a dissenting opinion. The NCRA staff have pondered what that opinion could mean for C/C radio in the Burlington area.

See the link here: http://www.ncra.ca/NoteRegardingBurlingtonRadioDecision.pdf