TORONTO’S 88.1 CKLN FM RETURNS TO AIR

After a temporary cessation of live programming on the airwaves, Toronto’s 88.1 CKLN FM resumed daytime broadcasting Monday October 5th, 2009. Under the direction of a new, democratically elected Board of Directors, and in full compliance with the Ryerson Student Union and the CRTC (Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission), both day and night programming was re-instated over a two week period starting Monday, October 5.

“We still have a long way to go,” said CKLN Board Chair Ron Nelson, “but with the help of our board, the volunteers, the communities we serve, the Ryerson students and their Student Union, things will hopefully go back to how they were a couple of years ago where CKLN was performing as a dynamic and award-winning Canadian campus-community radio station.”

About CKLN: CKLN began broadcasting after receiving its license in 1983, and has been seen as one of the pillars of both community and campus community radio in Toronto. Representing multiple genres of music, spoken word and artistic expression, CKLN remains focused on providing a voice for various communities that are not represented in mainstream media. The station is run by approximately 300 volunteers, some of whom are journalism and radio and television arts students or alumni from Ryerson University.

The CKLN studios are located on the second floor of 55 Gould Street at the Ryerson Student Centre in Toronto.