Editing CHUO-FM

{{short description|Radio station at the University of Ottawa}}
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{{Infobox radio station
| logo             = CHUO Organization Logo.jpg
| name             = CHUO-FM
| airdate          = 1984 (cable/closed circuit)<br />May 31, 1991 (FM)
| frequency        = 89.1 [[MHz]] ([[FM radio|FM]])
| city             = [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]]
| format           = [[campus radio]]
| owner            = Centre for Independent Media & Art Centre des medias et arts independents
| erp              = 3.2 [[kilowatt|kW]]s average<br>18.1 kilowatts peak
| haat             = {{convert|257.5|meters}}
| branding         =
| class            = C1
| webcast          = [http://icecast1.isiglobal.ca:8000/chuo.m3u MP3 stream]
| website          = [http://www.chuo.fm/ chuo.fm]
| callsign_meaning = '''CH''' '''U'''niversity of '''O'''ttawa 
}}

'''CHUO-FM''' is a Canadian community-based [[campus radio|campus]] [[radio station]], broadcasting at 89.1 [[FM radio|FM]] in [[Ottawa]], on [[Rogers Communications|Rogers]] [[digital cable]] on channel 943, via [[RealAudio]] stream and in [[MP3]]. It is the [[campus radio]] station of the [[University of Ottawa]], a member of the [[National Campus and Community Radio Association]] in Canada, and a member of the world community radio association [[AMARC]].

CHUO's studios are located on the campus of the University of Ottawa, while its transmitter is located in [[Camp Fortune, Quebec]].

==History==

The station began as a radio club transmitting as CHOR, an [[AM radio|AM]] [[carrier current]] station on 670&nbsp;kHz in 1975 on the University of Ottawa campus.  By 1984 CHOR was known as CFUO which started [[cable FM|cable-casting]] and could be heard on [[closed-circuit radio|closed circuit]] in the university's student residences. It was subsequently awarded a broadcast license by the [[Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission|CRTC]],<ref>[http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/1989/DB89-834.HTM Decision CRTC 89-834]</ref> and began broadcasting at 89.1 FM on May 31, 1991.

The station is [[bilingualism in Canada|bilingual]], broadcasting in both of [[Canada]]'s official languages; [[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]]. CHUO's programming is composed of 35% [[English language|English]] programming, 35% [[French language|French]] programming, and 10% in third languages. CHUO's programming is free form including the genres of jazz, indie rock, electronic, classical alongside many radio programs produced BY and FOR the Black community including Ici L'Afrique, Afrika Revisited, Black on Black, Rockers, Caribbean Flavour, Bouyon Racin, Men Kontré, FREESTYLE, and more.

CHUO 89.1 FM launched a morning drive-time hip-hop show in June 2019.

In 2023, the station lost a referendum on defunding its student levy.<ref>Connie Thiessen, [https://broadcastdialogue.com/university-of-ottawa-students-vote-to-defund-chuo-fm/ "University of Ottawa students vote to defund CHUO-FM"]. ''Broadcast Dialogue'', October 17, 2023.</ref> The referendum was repeated and approved again in 2024 following legal challenges by CHUO.

==Notables==
As one of the founding volunteers, Papa Richie has hosted and produced ''Rockers'' since 1986. Music journalist and radio host [[Aaron Badgley]] had a six-hour Saturday show, ''The Meltdown Pot'', from 1987 to 1989.<ref name="ItsPsychedelicBabyMagazine">{{Cite web |last=Julien |first=Alexander |author-link=Alexander Julien |date=August 28, 2024 |title=An Interview With Music Journalist and Biographer Aaron Badgley |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2024/08/an-interview-with-music-journalist-and-biographer-aaron-badgley.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240828233620/https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2024/08/an-interview-with-music-journalist-and-biographer-aaron-badgley.html |archive-date=August 28, 2024 |access-date=August 28, 2024 |website=[[It's Psychedelic Baby! Magazine]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Patricia Harewood, Adrienne Codette, Jacquie Stewart, Sarah Onyango, Denise Isaacs and Jackie Lawrence are some members of the collective who have hosted ''Black on Black'' (Ottawa's premiere black community arts and culture show) since the early 1990s. [[Tom Green]] hosted ''The Midnight Caller'' on the station for several years in the mid-1990s before moving to television with [[Rogers Communications|Rogers Cable]]'s Ottawa community channel. CHUO alumni include Adrian Harewood (CBC), Laura Osman (CBC), Emma Godmere (CBC), Alanna Stuart (BONJAY, CBC), Terry Loretto (CBC)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web5.uottawa.ca/mcs-smc/tabaret/en/2013-02/a-home-on-campus.html|title = A Home on Campus - TABARET: UOttawa's online magazine}}</ref>

In 1997, CHUO won a Standard Broadcast award for a bilingual spoken word series entitled "Women's Words" created by Carolyn Cote and produced by Erin Flynn.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://previous.ncra.ca/business/Standard/Stdwinners.html |title=Standard Award Winners |accessdate=2013-10-31 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20131031005620/http://previous.ncra.ca/business/Standard/Stdwinners.html |archivedate=2013-10-31 }}</ref>

==Studios==
[[Image:MorissettO.jpg|right|thumb|200px|CHUO's studios used to be located in the overhanging walkway extending from the centre of this photograph towards the right, and are now located in the sub basement of Morisset Library seen in the background.]]

The station's studios used to be located in a walkway linking [[University of Ottawa]]'s Morisset Library with the Thompson student residence. In September 2005 the station moved to new facilities in the sub-basement of the Morisset library at 65 University Private, suite 0038. Office hours are from Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.chuo.fm CHUO]
* [https://broadcasting-history.ca/radio/radio-stations/ontario/ontario-ottawa-valley/CHUO-FM CHUO-FM] at The History of Canadian Broadcasting by the [[Canadian Communications Foundation]]
*{{RecnetCanada|CHUO-FM}}

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