Hey students of UFV.
Starting Monday March 16, 2010 the UFV Student Union Society will be holding their general elections online at my.ufv.ca. Click here to login.
For more information on who is running, go to UFVSUS.ca and scroll down for more information. Or pick up the latest edition of the Cascade.
Get your voice heard by voting!
On Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Doctor Scott Sheffield gave a lecture entitled Mobilising Indigeneity: Comparing Settler Societies and Indigenous Participation in the Second World War. This lecture is a part of the UFV Lecture Series. For more information on upcoming UFV Lecture Series, click here!
So CIVL Radio was at the Doctor Scheffield’s lecture and we have turned it into a CIVLCast. To download the CIVLCast, please right-click here and ’save-as.’
Doctor Scott Scheffield is a member of the History Faculty here at UFV and this lecture is a product of a “present SSHRC-funded research project undertaken with Dr. P. Whitney Lackenbauer at St. Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario.”
Hey everyone!
CIVL Radio is holding their Annual General Meeting Tuesday March 9, 2010.
Come on out to room C1429 in Building C of UFV!
The meeting is open to all members of the UFV Campus and Community Radio Society (CIVL Radio).
The Agenda:
Memberships are available to anyone from the communities of Abbotsford, Chilliwack and Mission. The cost is $10 a year.
If you are a student of UFV, then you are already a member!
Come on out and help campus and community radio in the Fraser Valley!
If quorum of 111 people is not met, we will reconvene in the same location and place the following week Tuesday March 16, 2010.
Hey students of UFV! The Student Union Society are going to be holding their elections between March 16 at 12:01 a.m. until March 19 at 11:59 p.m.
Voting will be done in the myUFV website so log in and make your vote count.
There will be two debates for the SUS General Election:
Chilliwack - 3 March 2010 from 1-3 p.m. in D218
Abbotsford - 9 March 2010 from 4-7 p.m. in B101
Like UFV SUS says, “Your Say Your Way.”
Keep it CIVL!
Hey everyone!
Designed by Dan Mack and printed on American Apparel hoodies by East Van Screen Printing, CIVL Radio is proud to present our latest addition to our CIVL Merch!
Stop on by to CIVL Radio here in Building C of UFV! We’re in room C1061.
Hoodies are available in all sizes and in grey, red and black and for $35.
For more questions send sydney@civl.ca an email today!
Get em before they’re gone!
Recently, the CIVL Radio society president sat down with a reporter from the campus newspaper of UFV called the Cascade. The following article was printed in the Friday, February 19, 2010 edition of the Cascade:
“Q & A: Dustin Ellis
CIVL and CBC: Together at Last?
RHYS MURLEY
CIVL, UFV’s campus radio station, has been broadcasting on the internet for the past couple of years with live streaming and archived podcasts. Offering a diverse group of shows, almost all by volunteer DJs, CIVL is quite honestly an amazing radio station. If you have not yet checked it out, you really should. This week I had the opportunity to sit down with operations director Dustin Ellis and talk to him about CIVL and CBC joining forces.
First off, let’s talk about CIVL and CBC coming together and what that means.
OK, well first CIVL is a campus community radio initiative serving UFV in Abbotsford, Mission, and Chilliwack. Since its inception in 2004, we have been working on broadcasting on the FM dial. The trouble is finding viable tower space. Eventually we decided to build a tower on campus in Abbotsford and broadcast from there on 88.5 FM. [This frequency] caused interference with CBC Radio One in a high population zone. So, basically the skinny on this project is that we got a letter from CBC saying it wouldn’t be a good relationship between us if we broadcasted from this frequency. So CIVL and CBC sat down together, scratched their heads to come up with a solution. We came to the decision to switch frequencies with one of CBCs. Right now our license is for 88.5 FM, so we are seeking to change our license with CRTC (Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission) to switch frequencies with CBC from 88.5 to 101.7 FM. This a neat situation, where the parties involved were able to come to their own solution; this doesn’t happen often in CRTC land. Usually the organization has to regulate groups and try to find solutions for them, which takes more time. So here, CBC and CIVL were able to come to a better solution at lesser cost.
Alright, so with the new frequency, what would be the broadcast area for CIVL?
We’ll have a tower in west Abbotsford, and we’re hoping to broadcast from that tower into Mission. One of our primary objectives is to broadcast into Abbotsford, Mission, and Chilliwack. Of course, this tower won’t reach into Chilliwack, but it certainly has to hit two of the three campuses in order for it to be a viable frequency for us. So the station should play from approximately 200 street [in Langley] to Whatcom road exit in Abbotsford, and well into the hills of Mission. It’s a nice frequency, kind of nice coverage. We have to put up another tower in Chilliwack, which has been a project for us for a while now.
What are your broadcasting plans for Chilliwack?
Well, we have to set up an amendment to our license with CRTC. They should approve it on the basis that the first license was approved to broadcast into Chilliwack. They’re kind of big on this campus community thing, let’s hope they still are, I imagine they would be. So, we have to put in it’s our campus zone, apply for it, list all the good reasons for it and they should go for it. The next phase would be to find a viable tower, CBC has one, and there may be one on campus. The trick is that it will be on a different frequency; it can’t be 101.7 because it will create a zone of interference. The funny thing about radios, if you’re radio receiver picks up two signals they cancel each other out, they interfere. It’s because one may be fractions of a second ahead or behind, so they create interference and overlap, and it sounds like chaos.
So then for Chilliwack will need to find a different frequency?
Yeah, so it kind makes the call letters a little less, “sexy” or marketable when you call them. So when you say “you’re listening to CIVL radio, 101.7 in Abbotsford and Mission, and 106 point whatever in Chilliwack” it makes things more difficult.
Yeah, causes a little bit of a hitch there, makes a longer preamble when introducing the station. But as long as we get into Chilliwack, fantastic.
Yeah, hitting Chilliwack is really important to us. A lot of our DJs are from Chilliwack, there’s a lot of talent out there. We’re really excited about this project and how it can merge the three cities together. We’re [pretty] pumped about the ability to promote concerts and young bands as they come through town, and boost the profile for community events.
So then, when can we expect CIVL to hit the FM broadwaves?
There’s always that question, you know, when’s the deadline? We used to publicize our projected targets and it’s always a major disappointment when you pass those dates and there’s a technical problem. So for me to say right now it would be perhaps damning to me later [laughs]. I’m hoping sometime this summer that we’re testing the frequency.
Alright, so for now we’ll be sticking to live internet streaming and podcasts?
We have one of the best podcast systems in the country for campus radio stations. Other radio stations send us emails asking us how we do it. Some of our DJs were back east in New Brunswick at some of the campus stations there and they were asked all the time how we have our podcasting system set up. The trick is we podcast every hour of music where the other stations only podcast selected programs.
So, there you have it. CIVL is well on its way to hitting the FM and broadcasting all over the valley. We’re really looking forward to it.”
Thank you to the Cascade for this great article!
Painted by Jordan Turner.
Hey everyone!
Check out the premier edition of The CIVLIAN. This is the official newsletter of CIVL Radio and it will be released once a semester, three times a year.
Click on the link above to have The CIVLIAN in a pdf format. The CIVLIAN is best printed in colour and on tabloid-size paper but will also print on letter-size paper. Remember to print The CIVLIAN double-sided to save on paper.
When you are done reading The CIVLIAN, don’t forget to post the CIVL programming schedule up where everyone can see.
Please email thecivlian@civl.ca if you have any feedback or if you want to be on the email list for the next edition of The CIVLIAN.
Its currently reading break at the University of the Fraser Valley.
Here at CIVL we are having a quiet week.
Enjoy this comic.
Hey Students and Community Members of CIVL Radio!
Coming up the Lower Mainland and Vancouver and in conjunction with the Cultural Olympiad, there will be some free concerts. There will be two venues, LiveCIty Yaletwon and The Surrey 2010 Celebration Site. Both will be highlighting some of the best talent from Canada from near and far.
Hey students of UFV, welcome back to another semester of CIVL action. This is our reset into a new torrent of ideas and assignments but if you are feeling up for it, go on and check out some of what is happening in the lower mainland of BC:
Monday January 11th 2010
Friends of 7 at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver
Tuesday January 12th 2010
Joseph Arthur at the Railway Club in Vancouver
Wednesday January 13th 2010
Peace/Tight Solid at the Honey Lounge in Vancouver
Man Your Horse/Owl Drugs/The Barcelona Chair/Plus Perfect at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver
The Shrugs/Macula at the Media Club in Vancouver
Thursday January 14th 2010
Jackfruit/Bike at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver
The Best Revenge/Motorama/New Modern Lakes at the Media Club in Vancouver
Friday January 15th 2010
Whitey/Fuzzcat/Jordan Carrier/Love for Money at the Railway Club in Vancouver
Tequila Mockingbird/Blackberry Wood/Bucan Bucan at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver
Saturday January 16th 2010
Woodpigeon/Chris Smith at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver
Channels 3×4 at the Biltmore Cabaret in Vancouver
Pretty Vanilla/Street Legal Dirtbike at Pat’s Pub in Vancouver
Yuca/Waiting for Sunday/Stars of Boulevard/Char2D2 at the Media Club in Vancouver
Sunday January 17th 2010
Of Absence/Re-Entry/Freedom in Fear/Reckoner at the Media Club in Vancouver