Questions:
Will CKUA podcast soon?
As
a radio station, CKUA pays a yearly fee to play the music listeners love over
the airwaves and at the same time streamed live on the internet. But, in order
to archive and distribute our music programs via mp3 podcasts, we would have to
purchase the music rights, or otherwise make arrangements with the artists to
allow us to use their copyrighted material. This would be very expensive. For
that reason, we do not have any plans to podcast our regular music programs. However,
we are making some of our original news and spoken word educational programming
available at www.ckua.com. How long are the pledge
drives? How many do you have each year?
The pledge drives usually
go for 17 days. We have them twice a year - once in the fall (October) and once
in the spring (April).
Which shows do you
have archived so I can listen to at my convenience?
There are a
number of performer interviews which are archived under Audio Archives.
Some of our current and recent spoken word programming is also available, such
as ArtBeat, Arts Alive, Bookmark, Sunday Magazine, Innovation Alberta, Inspiring
Leadership 2.0, and Earth & Sky. Another show that is posted in text is Arts &
Culture Guide. Just go to the respective show, and follow the links to previous
shows. What are the themes to the Saturday and
Sunday Breakfast Programs?
There are actually 2 themes that are
used on both "Saturday Breakfast" and "Sunday Breakfast"....the first one (the
one with harpsichord and horns) is the fifth movement of Handel's Concerto a due
cori #2 in F, HWV 333....we use a recording on the Berlin Classics label (catalogue
#0021692BC) featuring Max Pommer conducting the Neues Bachisches Collegium Musicum.
It was originally released in 1981 and re-released in 1997.
The other
theme (the one with flute) is by Leopold Mozart.It's the first movement of his
Symphony in G (Eisen G7) and it's from a 2 CD-set on the CPO label (catalogue
# CPO 999 144-2) that came out in 1992. It features Bohdan Warchal conducting
the Slovak Chamber Orchestra. How do we get our
community event on CKUA?
Chris Allen has compiled some guidelines
to writing a public service announcment for submission to CKUA. View
the guidelines. Why do you use Windows Media
Player?
We were paying many thousands of dollars (no exaggeration)
for licenses for the 100 Audio streams we had. On top of that is our bandwidth
bill. Windows Media Services is 100% completely free. We had 2 options when it
came to expanding our streams to accommodate listener demand. Double or triple
our already exorbitant yearly licensing fees and then buy a bigger pipe from our
host - or switch to Windows Media Services, have complete control over the number
of streams we can provide, and invest the savings into a bigger pipe. We are a
public radio station. We really only had one choice. Is it possible for CKUA to be broastcast
on the same FM frequency (i.e. 97.3,97.5) throughout the province?
Unfortunately the reason CKUA ended up with so many frequencies is due to
a rather complex CRTC ruling to prevent radio transmitters from conflicting with
competitors. We're one of the few radio networks of our kind in the world. So
in a way it's that way to protect us from ourselves. We'd all like to have it
simplified, but we're years of paperwork away.
How
do I find out about a song that was played on your station? First,
visit the show you heard the song on and select "Playlists". Then search for the
date you heard the song on and select the appropriate playlist. If the playlist
is not posted yet, or if you can't find the song, please email CKUA Librarian
Monica Chattaway at mchattaway@ckua.com.
How do I find a CKUA sponsor?
All
our sponsors are listed in the Corporate
Sponsorship section, a link available right on the home page. Clicking on
Current Sponsors and then on the sponsor name will take you to their web site,
if they have one How do I email an announcer or
staff?
All staff at CKUA have an email address. It's always firstname.lastname@ckua.com.
Or find them in the staff directory.
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