WEFUNK Radio

WEFUNK is a weekly radio show held on Montreal's CKUT 90.3, McGill University's radio station since 1996 and online since 1999.[1][2][3] The show is usually very light on talk as both DJs Professor Groove and DJ Static play a symbiotic mix of Funk, Soul, R&B and Rap, both old and new.[4] The name of the radio show comes from the Parliament song "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)", in which WEFUNK is a fictional radio station broadcasting "directly from the Mothership, top of the Chocolate Milky Way, 500,000 kilowatts of P Funk-power."

WEFUNK expanded to include its own Internet radio stream in 1999, becoming one of the oldest continuously operating radio streams on the Internet, as well as one of the longest-running online radio shows. Since 2001, Apple has featured WEFUNK in its iTunes radio directory,[5] introducing the show to a large worldwide audience.[6]

  1. ^ "Stylus DJ Awards: 2007 Winners". Stylus Group. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
  2. ^ Clyke, Scott (June 14, 2007). "WeFunk Tops 10: CKUT's Wefunk radio show celebrates a decade on the airwaves". Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
  3. ^ ""Best of Montreal" 2009 Annual Reader's Poll". Montreal Mirror. May 14, 2009. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011.
  4. ^ "CKUT weekly pick". The McGill Daily. September 18, 2008. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
  5. ^ "App Store - WEFUNK Radio Stream". itunes.apple.com. Retrieved 2012-09-22.
  6. ^ Phanor-Faury, Alexandra (July 21, 2008). "WEFUNK's Got the Funk". Paper Mag.