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A Saturday update for you on this cloudy wet day on our coast. We are $11687.22 away from our December 6th goal of $30,000. If you like what CHLY does for local arts and culture, and want to support our developing student collectives, and ability to report on important issues in our broadcast community, now is the time.
Read MoreLocal media? What does it mean? It means a voice for the community, a voice for students, and a place to express what we love. Hi, I'm Erin Coole. VIU Student, Volunteer Events Coordinator, Board Member, and co-host on the VIU Meter at CHLY 101.7FM. Our station would not be possible without the support of our listeners. We offer a variety of content for you to enjoy, and if you like what you hear, please support us and our $30,000 goal by visiting chly.ca/donate and making a donation.
Read MoreCBC Radio alumni Lisa Cordasco will be in Nanaimo Monday, November 25 for a media workshop presented by CHLY Radio 101.7 FM. The workshop is titled “News Radio and The Art of the Interview” and will run from 4:30 to 7:30 PM on the 22nd.
Read MoreSince early 2018, Jacqueline Ronson has been a community reporter with The Discourse in the Cowichan Valley. The Discourse is building a new way of bringing independent, in-depth news to communities in Canada.
Read MoreAnother year has gone by at CHLY 101.7FM, and with that our 21st Annual General Meeting is coming up fast! As usual for our AGM, we will be electing several new board members, and we will have some special resolutions to vote on to update our bylaws.
Read MoreThe Bookkeeper of CHLY works with the Executive Director to ensure that the financials are tracked and accounted for. This includes tracking and scheduling bills to be paid, drafting cheques, following up on sales invoices, and supplying the auditor with the information that they need to complete the financial audit for the October Annual General Meeting.
Read MoreI am happy to inform our listeners that we at CHLY have again received great news from The Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) Radiometres program. Our station, CHLY 101.7FM has been granted approximately $47,000 for a project I submitted earlier this year to create Student Media Collectives at the station.
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About a month or so ago, Spencer Medford applied to be a volunteer at CHLY. It took a little bit of time for us to follow up with him, but as it turns out, it was probably one of the smartest things we could have done.
Read MoreIt's your last chance to win tickets to the Vancouver Island Music Festival in the Comox Valley! Enter to win by signing up for a $5+/month Sustaining Donation to CHLY 101.7FM. As part of CHLY’s Listener Un-Drive, we have two pairs of complimentary day passes to give away, so your chances are pretty decent, and you support CHLY 101.7FM in doing so!
Donors get an entry in the draw for every $5/month they donate, so someone signing up for $10/month would get two entries. If you’re a current Sustaining Donor, you are automatically entered to win!
Read More“Hey there friends. This is Cassandra Blondin-Burt speaking to you from Gabriola Island. I'm here to thank listeners from Nanaimo and around the world for tuning into CHLY 101.7fm and CHLY.ca. It is because of the support of people like you that stations like this can continue to broadcast local relevant content, giving a voice to our community, and letting us better know each other, real-life content that isn't marred by too much advertisement, and giving us what mass media can't. Events and stories in our every day lives. So let's keep on tuning in and sending support, so they can keep doing what they do best, giving us content as evolving and dynamic as our island community continues to be.”
Read MoreDid you know we’re running a listener survey right now? Summer Station Kaylie Russell helped put it together for us! As part of our Listener Un-Drive, we at CHLY want to hear from you in order to help plan for our future. What do you want to hear more of? What are you listening to? How are you listening? Etc.
Read MoreI really can’t stress this enough—we are listener supported. We don’t lean hard as much as we could on advertising—which I am sure is appreciated—we certainly don’t lean on corporate advertising to pay the bills at the station.
Today we have about 800 or so people on our mailing list who get these emails. Some are current sustaining donors, some are past donors, but most are people who haven’t supported us yet with a small monthly donation.
Read MoreRegistration is open for CHLY 101.7FM’s first annual Summer Radio Camp for kids! This two-week long day camp, hosted by vetted staff, will run three times through the summer, with participants learning about media, music, broadcasting, podcasting, interviewing, working together to produce their own radio show and podcast!
Read MoreFunded through Canada Summer Jobs, Our newest addition to the team Kaylie Russell! Kaylie is currently studying Graphic Design at VIU and enjoys performing regularly with various local bands including The Femme Fatales and Moonshine Mollys…
Read MoreCHLY is hiring! The Summer Station Assistant will be working within a broadcast facility that provides a community service to its listeners. They will work with recording and editing audio, assist with social media, work in a broadcast booth, and assist with CHLY’s first Summer Radio Camp for youths.
Read MoreNanaimo and Ottawa (Monday November 5th, 2018) – Mr. Roger Ouellette, President of the Community Radio Fund of Canada (CRFC) and Jesse Woodward, former President of CHLY-FM, a campus radio station located in Nanaimo, BC, are pleased to announce that $34,320 will go towards the implementation of their project "Workshop development for ongoing skills training, and Summer Radio Camp".
Read MoreThanks to funding from the Canada Summer Jobs program, CHLY has been able to hire a Summer Station Assistant! We welcome aboard Vancouver Island University Student Adam Barron who will for now be covering evening office hours at CHLY as well as weekends.
Read MoreHello Listeners. On April the 24th, I was offered by the Board of Directors of the Radio Malaspina Society a position with CHLY 101.7FM as Executive Coordinator. I have accepted this position and have resigned from the board as its President. While I will miss my former role, I am incredibly excited about my new role moving forward.
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