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| Broadcast area | Greater Montreal area |
|---|---|
| Frequency | 90.3 MHz |
| Branding | 90.3 FM CKUT Montreal |
| Programming | |
| Format | campus-community |
| Affiliations | Pacifica Radio Network |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Radio CKUT (non-profit organisation) |
| History | |
First air date | 1966 as CFRM (Radio Mc Gill) November 16, 1987 as CKUT-FM |
| Technical information | |
| Class | B |
| ERP | 5,003 watts horizontal polarization only |
| HAAT | 242.5 meters (796 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 45°30′20.16″N 73°35′30.12″W / 45.5056000°N 73.5917000°W |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.ckut.ca |
CKUT-FM is the official campus-community radio station of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It can be heard at 90.3 FM in Montreal. CKUT's FM signal, broadcast from a tower on the top of Mount Royal, reaches as far as the Eastern Townships and upstate New York.
CKUT-FM has its roots in McGill University's radio club, founded in 1921, and then in the closed-circuit station CFRM on the campus of McGill University.[1] It started broadcasting on FM on November 16, 1987.[2][3][4]
- ^ "CKUT-FM – The History of Canadian Broadcasting". Retrieved 2024-08-28.
- ^ Boone, Mike (November 16, 1987). "McGill station is on the air – except in Westmount". The Gazette. Montreal, Quebec. p. C9. Retrieved April 2, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Moylan, Katie (2019-02-20). The Cultural Work of Community Radio. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-78348-934-3.
- ^ Stanton, Victoria; Tinguely, Vincent (2001). Impure: Reinventing the Word : the Theory, Practice, and Oral History of Spoken Word in Montreal. Conundrum Press. ISBN 978-0-9689496-1-0.