Closing in on 100 years, CKUA Radio could go dark without cash infusion
'Perfect storm' of inflationary pressures and a lack of government support is taking its toll on one of Canada's oldest radio stations
I recall when CKUA was a contender, but years ago, I stopped listening.
Originally CKUA was an Alberta Govenment station, carrying programming relating to Alberta Government programmes and matters of interest to farmers and rural folk as well as those in cities. Then it was cut loose to fend for itself and veered off into other things. IT seems whenever I remember them and try to listen again they have a fund raiser.
Perhaps the newly refocused UCP govenment could regain control of CKUA and return the network to its original mandate to provide a sensible Alberta counterbalance to the CBC's Federal Government bias.
FWIW, I was at one time a all-day CBC listener while working but that faded and CHQR became more favoured in afternoons, spite of its brain-dead advertising.
Lately I listen to CBR drive-time sometimes and occasionally CHQR and CBR, and podcasts.
CBC had good news at one time, but as I recall, CKUA was CBC's equal or better. Frankly, the 'News" on all stations these days is an insult to any intelligent and informed person. It is delivered in dramtic tones and tends to the sensational.
The big advantage of both CBC and CKUA over commercial radio was and is lack of ads.
That may have changed in the last decade to some extent on CKUA.
Maybe it is time for the Alberta government to regain interest in CKUA, support and refocus and put the network back to good use, getting the Alberta message out to Albertans.
Apparently CKUA is an Alberta crown corporation. Right now, you would never know it.
UN Climate Summit blocks Rebel News — again
Sheila Gunn Reid discusses how the United Nations refused to allow Rebel News into its climate change conference in Brazil despite an email claiming Rebel News was accredited.
The United Nations climate conference in Belém, Brazil, is underway — and, in true UN fashion, it took all of ten minutes for the hypocrisy to hit us in the face.
For the first time in nine years, Rebel News was officially accredited to enter the conference grounds. We got the approval emails. We got our work visas. We flew half way around the world. We went to pick up our badges. Then the bureaucrats did what UN bureaucrats always do when a climate heretic gets too close: they found a problem.
Suddenly, our accreditation “didn’t allow” us inside the main venue — the pavilions, media rooms, and meeting halls packed with activists, diplomats, and 55,000 carbon-burning delegates who flew halfway around the world to lecture ordinary people about their energy use.
But somehow, we were ...
