CIUT-FM

Infobox Radio Station


name = CIUT-FM
airdate = 1966
frequency = 89.5 MHz (FM)
area = Greater Toronto
format = Campus and community programming
owner = University of Toronto Community Radio Inc. (registered charity)
erp = 15 kW
class =
website = [http://www.ciut.fm ciut.fm]
callsign_meaning = CI University of Toronto

CIUT-FM is a college and community radio station owned and operated by the University of Toronto community. The station broadcasts live and continuously from Toronto on the 89.5 FM frequency. Programming can also be heard nationally via channel 826 on Star Choice's National Satellite Network, and over the Internet via the CIUT Web site. The station is financially supported by donations and an undergraduate student levy.

The station began as a closed-circuit broadcaster called "Radio Varsity" in 1966, later becoming "Input Radio", UTR and then CJUT. All these versions of the station were only heard within the confines of the University of Toronto. The station was granted a broadcast license and became CIUT-FM in 1986, and on January 15, 1987, the station's FM broadcasts began to reach a considerably wider range across southern Ontario.

Today, CIUT broadcasts at 15 kilowatts from a transmitter on the top of First Canadian Place in Downtown Toronto. With greater signal power than generally found at other community radio stations, CIUT's broadcast reaches as far as Barrie to the north, Buffalo to the south, Kitchener to the west and Cobourg to the east.

External links

* [http://www.ciut.fm CIUT-FM Web site]
* [http://128.100.197.46:8002/listen.pls CIUT's online stream (mp3)]
* [http://www.broadcasting-history.ca/listings_and_histories/radio/histories.php?id=413&historyID=194 CIUT history at Canadian Communications Foundation]
* [http://www.crtc.gc.ca/archive/ENG/Decisions/1986/DB86-237.HTM Decision CRTC 86-237]
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