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DEADLINE APPROACHING: NCRA Community Radio Awards!
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The NCRA Board and staff are thrilled to announce the 2013 NCRA/ANREC Community Radio Awards: now celebrating 20 years!

Since 1993 the Awards have worked to honour the amazing programming, people and activities our sector has to offer and reflect the range and diversity of community radio across Canada, including categories for programming about music, Aboriginal affairs and culture, and third language shows.

Last year's winners included a broadcast live from the student protests in Montreal, a show featuring people Christmas caroling outside a prison to reach out to family members inside, thoughtful and hilarious segments from the show "Pioneer Radio" on the theme of "mortification", and poets at the local library in Haliburton, ON pondering their art.

This year's winners will receive national recognition at the NCRA Awards Gala at the National Campus and Community Radio Conference this June 11-15, hosted by CKUW-FM in Winnipeg, MB and on the NCRA/ANREC website. (There are also trophies and certificates, just saying.)

Full submission details can be found at www.ncra.ca/awards. The deadline to apply has been extended to Friday, May 24th at midnight Pacific Time. But that's still pretty soon! Good luck!

About the NCRA/ANREC

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See for yourself: community voices are powerful.

The National Campus and Community Radio Association/l’Association nationale des radios étudiantes et communautaires is a not-for-profit group committed to volunteer-driven, non-profit, community-oriented radio across Canada.

Our goals are to ensure stability and support for individual stations and the long-term growth and effectiveness of the sector.
 
We promote public education about community media and help represent community radio to government and other agencies.

The NCRA/ANREC also provides a forum for people to share their skills, ideas and passion. Listen local, think national and get involved! The power is yours. 

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New member!
5 weeks 2 days

HBRWelcome to Hunters Bay Radio in Huntsville, ON: our newest member!

The station started broadcasting online three years ago from here. Since then it has grown to more than 27 volunteers, sells an impressive amount of local advertising, and hired three part-time staff.

This year they also applied to the CRTC for an FM licence and say they want to bring their focus on local independent music you can't hear on local commercial stations to the airwaves: music to our ears!

The station also features newscasts on the hour, the show "Corrie Chat" about Coronation Street, an all-request breakfast show on Saturday mornings, as well as programming on local women's issues, family issues and sports.