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CKLN-FM was a community radio station based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. From 1983 to 2011, CKLN Radio Inc. was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission as a campus-community FM radio station affiliated with Ryerson University, and broadcast at 88.1 MHz on the FM dial with the call sign CKLN-FM. It ceased FM broadcasting on April 15, 2011 after its licence was revoked on January 28, 2011〔(CRTC revokes licence of Toronto campus radio station )〕 and continued as an internet radio outlet until it ceased operations on December 26, 2011.〔 In its final months most of the internet broadcaster's programs were produced in the Regent Park neighbourhood of Toronto.〔(CKLN )〕 After CKLN was officially dissolved as an organization, its remaining resources and volunteers were transferred to Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre, which launched Radio Regent, a new Internet radio operation, in early 2012. After a round of licence hearings on new applications for CKLN's old frequency, the CRTC awarded the licence to Rock 95 Broadcasting, which launched CIND-FM under the name Indie 88 in September 2012. ==History== CKLN began as a closed circuit station set up in 1970 as Ryerson Community Radio, its broadcasts piped to loudspeakers around campus. In 1972, it became independent of Ryerson's Radio and Television Arts department and adopted the call letters CRFM.〔 In 1978, the station adopted the call letters CKLN and was broadcast through campus via a cable.〔 It was licensed as an over the air FM broadcaster by the CRTC in 1983 as a Ryerson University-based campus-community radio station and assigned the frequency of 88.1 MHz on the FM band and allowed to retain the CKLN call letters.〔 Ryerson had announced that it would close its earlier radio station, CJRT-FM, in 1973 due to financial constraints; that station was saved in 1974 by the Ontario government headed by Bill Davis in 1974 as a government funded public radio station without formal ties to Ryerson.〔 Among CKLN's early accomplishments was the launch in 1983 of Ron Nelson's ''Fantastic Voyage'',〔 Canada's first radio show devoted to hip hop.〔("CKLN board ‘not going to lie down’ after licence revoked" ). ''Toronto Star'', January 28, 2011.〕 The program was influential in promoting and developing many of Canada's early hip hop stars, including Maestro Fresh Wes and Michie Mee.〔("Dead air for Ryerson community station" ). ''Toronto Star'', April 16, 2011.〕 According to poet Clifton Joseph, the show was "the single most important agent responsible for the breaking of rap music in Toronto and laying the groundwork for the emergence of Canadian rap artists such as Michie Mee and Maestro Fresh Wes."〔("Ryerson radio vital to city's music life" ), ''Toronto Star'', April 1, 1992〕 Other artists such as Blue Rodeo and k.d. lang received airplay on CKLN prior to being picked up by mainstream radio.〔 The ''Globe and Mail'' says of the station that "it sat at the forefront of independent music and radical politics in the city for more than three decades, working with a shoe-string budget, and yet it somehow always managed to survive."〔 In the 1980s, the station helped create a news service to share content among left-wing stations world-wide including those run by the African National Congress and the FMLN in El Salvador. The station aired live coverage of the release of Nelson Mandela from prison.〔"CKLN: From revolution to radio silence; Ryerson's campus station may have lost its broadcast licence, but volunteers hope its 30-year history can put 88.1 back on the dial" by Adrian Morrow, ''Globe and Mail'', May 21, 2011〕 CKLN was the first broadcast outlet to air Toronto's Gay Pride Day Parade.〔 In its coverage of the Rwandan genocide, CKLN aired an investigation of the colonial history behind the events.〔 In 1985, the station was estimated to have 50,000 weekly listeners. By 1991, its audience had grown to an estimated 140,000 listeners a week.〔 In 1989, The Toronto Star voted CKLN as “best radio station” in its annual Sammy awards.〔 In April 1992, one student successfully petitioned for a referendum to decide if the station should continue to receive student funding; CKLN won the referendum.〔 Former station manager Adam Vaughan, later a Member of Parliament, said in a 2015 interview that "What was great about CKLN is that it combined the strength of Ryerson with the diversity of Toronto... The diversity of the city and the diversity of the voices and the culture on air came to define CKLN and it was a huge part of our success." He added, however, that "The station, after I left, got very heavily invested in identity politics. And instead of bringing diversity together, groups kind of started to fight with each other and it was hugely problematic in terms of trying to unify an audience... You could see the station drifting further and further away from a position of strength and experimentation into bitterness and at times, straight up incompetency.”〔 By September 2003, following the departure of station manager Conrad Collaco,〔("CKLN finally hires Station Manager" ). ''The Eyeopener'', 2007-11-06.〕 CKLN was teetering on the brink of insolvency. As a result, the Ryerson Students' Union bailed out CKLN of $110,000 in debts.〔("CKLN gets new lease on life: Summer board elections end power struggle over Ryerson radio" ). ''The Varsity'', September 7, 2009.〕 An earlier proposal by Collaco to deal with the station's financial problems with a $6 increase to the student levy was not approved by the student government which cited various issues such as the lack of audited statements, the lack of airtime for Ryerson students or acknowledgment of Ryerson on the air.〔 In August 2005, CKLN shifted its broadcast studios from the basement of Jorgenson Hall at Ryerson University to the second floor of the newly constructed Ryerson Student Campus Centre. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「CKLN-FM」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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