CKRZ-FM

CKRZ-FM

City	Ohsweken, Ontario
Broadcast area	Six Nations/Brant, Midwestern Ontario
Slogan	The Voice of the Grand
Frequency	100.3 MHz (FM)
Format	community radio
ERP	250 watts
HAAT	46 meters
Class	A1
Owner	Southern Onkwehon:we Nishinabec Indigenous Communications Society
Website	www.ckrzfm.com

CKRZ-FM is a radio station in Ohsweken, Ontario. Owned by the Southern Onkwehon:we Nishinabec Indigenous Communications Society (SONICS), the station airs a community radio format for the region's Six Nations and Mississauga First Nations.

History

The station started broadcasting in 1987.^[1] Its frequency is 100.3 FM and is available on Rogers cable, digital channel 951 in Brantford, Kitchener, Woodstock and London.

CKRZ's broadcasts are multilingual, broadcasting in Cayuga, Mohawk, and other languages. On Sundays, CKRZ-FM still hosts a radio bingo with jackpots of up to $16,000.

Financial crisis

On January 29, 2009, the station announced that due to a rising debt load of more than $100,000 and reduced advertising revenue, it would leave the air on February 1, 2009.^[2] At an emergency meeting of SONICS' board and membership, the members subsequently voted to continue the station, as they considered it an asset to the community.

Walt Juchniewicz, a broadcast engineer from Hamilton who had worked with the station in the past, offered to donate services and equipment to help upgrade the station's studios. Juchniewicz called Six Nations one of the nicest communities he had ever worked in, adding that "there are a lot of good people at that station and it's got a better chance of recovering than some of the bigger broadcasters that are in trouble now, too."^[3]

The station resumed broadcasting on February 12. It was temporarily reduced to automated programming, with a single live personality to read news reports and community announcements, in order to give SONICS time to eliminate the station's accumulated debt.^[3]

References

↑ Decision CRTC 91-864
↑ "Plug to be pulled on CKRZ", Brantford Expositor, January 29, 2009.
1 2 "Six Nations radio station back on air", Brantford Expositor, February 13, 2009.

External links

Radio stations in Waterloo Region, Wellington County and Brant, Ontario

Kitchener, Waterloo and Cambridge	CKGL 570 CJIQ 88.3 CKBT 91.5 CJTW 94.3 CHYM 96.7 CKWR 98.5 CKKW 99.5 CKMS 100.3 CFCA 105.3 CIKZ 106.7 CJDV 107.5

Brantford	CKPC 1380 CKPC 92.1 CFWC 93.9

Erin	CHES 91.7

Guelph	CJOY 1460 CFRU 93.3 CIMJ 106.1 CICW 101.1

Mount Forest	CIWN 88.7

Ohsweken	CKRZ 100.3

Caledonia	CHTG 92.9

Paris	CBLA-2 89.1 CJBC-2 89.9 CBL-2 90.7

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Coordinates: 43°04′01″N 80°07′28″W / 43.06694°N 80.12444°W / 43.06694; -80.12444

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