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LAST WEEK TO APPLY: 2012 Community Radio Awards!
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The 2012 NCRA/ANREC Community Radio Awards are here...but gone soon! The deadline for nominations is TUESDAY, MAY 15 at midnight, PT!

Since 1993 these Awards have honoured the amazing programming and people our sector has to offer and reflected the range and diversity of community radio across Canada.

Last year's winners included "Sound Ideas" a music show that compared Dvorak's "New World Symphony" to the Black-eyed Peas' "My Humps"; Special Events programming for the "Joe Strummer Day to Confront Poverty in Windsor-Detroit"; a documentary on the roots and influence of Aboriginal music on the East Coast; a syndicated daily series on Canadian history; an interview, in Farsi, with a rape victim from Evin Prison; and so much more.

For more information click on the title of this post or go to www.ncra.ca/awards.

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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Radio Ryerson: hearing
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This week and next, the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is holding hearings on its call for radio applications to serve Toronto. And we'll be there!

Radio Ryerson, a diverse group of students and community supporters, submitted an application for a community-based campus licence to broadcast from Ryerson University.

More than 20 other applicants, mostly for commercial stations, are also vying for this space -- the last available FM frequency that can reach the city.

Campus/community radio is driven by the passion of volunteers from across the community, allowing people to speak directly to their neighbours, sharing local information and music and perspectives you just can't hear anywhere else. It's also important to note that c/c radio is not just programmed by the community, but governed and owned by them as well. True community access.

We feel there is no better use of the public airwaves. Good luck to Radio Ryerson! For more information, click on the title of this post