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CKUA is a Canadian radio station. Originally located at the University of Alberta in Edmonton (hence the UA of the call letters), it now broadcasts from studios in downtown Edmonton, with its Edmonton transmitter located on the southeast side of the city. CKUA was created in 1927 through a provincial grant which allowed the University of Alberta's Extension Department to purchase the licence of CFCK. CKUA was the first public broadcaster in Canada, and also the first to offer educational radio programming, including music concerts, poetry readings, and university lectures. From 1930 to 1931 the station was an affiliate of the CNR Radio network.〔(CKUA History from the Canadian Communications Foundation )〕 CKUA was operated from 1945 until 1974 by Alberta Government Telephones.〔(CKUA History ), Canadian Communications Foundation〕 A crown corporation, the Alberta Educational Communications Corporation (later known as Access), assumed ownership of the station in 1974.〔 In 1994, Access sold the CKUA network to the non-profit CKUA Radio Foundation for $10.〔(CKUA-FM history, Canadian Communications Foundation )〕 In March 1997 the station went off the air due to political squabbles, poor financial management, and attempts at privatization. The station was saved from demise in April when control was handed over to the public from directors appointed by the provincial government. As of 2005, more than two-thirds of the station's funding came from its listeners in the form of donations. ==Culture== CKUA is considered a cultural icon by many musicians throughout Canada. The station's practice of supporting local, independent, and non-commercial artists has helped launch the careers of such renowned musicians as k.d. lang, Jann Arden, and Bruce Cockburn. In addition, the employ of CKUA has contributed to the careers of Arthur Hiller, Robert Goulet, and Tommy Banks, among others. Throughout the 1930s an early radio drama series, ''CKUA Players'', was produced out of the station and broadcast throughout Western Canada by a network of stations.〔(Radio Drama, English Language ), ''Canadian Encyclopedia'', accessed January 23, 2008〕 CKUA schedules different programs throughout the week and thus can offer many different genres. These include, but are not limited to: blues, bluegrass, R & B, Celtic, country, classical, jazz, reggae, house, hiphop, dance, funk, rock, and world music. CKUA also continues its history of educational programming with its broadcast of telecourses offered by the music and history departments of Athabasca University. A highlight of weekday programming is the daily ''Call of the Land'', a farm and agribusiness news program rumoured to be the basis of the SCTV parody, "Farm Film Blow-Up". 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「CKUA Radio Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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