CFRC’s Top 30 Chart for the Week Ending January 31
Here are our wondrous, magical, munificent, magnanimous, megalithic charts for the period between January 24 and January 31th. Rae Spoon and Black Keys are trading places from last week, Atlas Sound has crawled gradually into the top 10, Bjork suddenly appears, and some old charters, like The Decemberists and Sweetheart, re-appear after two months. Interesting, as always.
artist / album (record label) *=Canadian content
1. Rae Spoon. / I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets (Saved by Radio)*
2. Black Keys / El Camino (Nonesuch)
3. Darcys, The / Aja Interpreted By The Darcys (Arts & Crafts)*
4. M83 / Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute)
5. Dixie’s Death Pool / The Man With Flowering Hands (Drip Audio)*
6. Coeur de Pirate / Blonde (Grosse Boite)*
7. Gainsbourg, Charlotte / Stage Whisper (Because Music)
8. Atlas Sound / Parallax (4AD)
9. Honheehonhee / Shouts (independent)*
10. Bjork / Biophilia (Nonesuch)
The rest of the chart can be seen on !earshot here.
Recruiting: Focus Programming Coordinator
CFRC is recruiting for a temporary (six-week), part-time internship to coordinate and create special programming in recognition of Aboriginal Awareness Week. Queen’s students will be prioritized for the position. The coordinator will be provided with a generous honorarium upon completion of the project. Previous campus or community radio experience is an asset but not a requirement. The deadline is February 6 at 4pm. Download complete posting information here. This position is made possible by the AMS Social Issues Commission’s Equity Grants program. For more information, please contact Kristiana at cfrcops@ams.queensu.ca.
This Old Hat Presents ‘A History in Radio Programming’
In a salute to CFRC’s 90 years, Howard Bonner presents a ‘History Of Radio Programming’.
The HISTORY is the early years 1921 - 1941 and is the history of Cincinnati’s WLW - The NATION’s STATION which was owned by the Crosley Family who at one point in time sold most of the radios in NORTH AMERICA.
Schedules and LIVE Band performances began here. The first Drama written specifically for radio was at WLW, Doris Day, Dinah Shore, FATS WALLER, the MILLS Brothers, Red Barber, the baseball announcer, commercials and oh so much more with excerpts from shows of the day.
It all begins Sat. Feb 4th at 11am and runs every Saturday at 1/2 hr. installments for 6 weeks in celebration of 90 years of the oldest continually broadcasting radio station in Canada.
January 28th on Free Radio
You can also catch them performing live at the Artel on Friday, January 27!
Top 30 Chart for the Week Ending January 24th
I have nothing witty to say about this week’s Top 30 chart. It is what it is.
CFRC’s chart for 17th January through January 24th 2011
artist / album (record label) *=Canadian content
1. Black Keys / El Camino (Nonesuch)
2. Rae Spoon. / I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets (Saved by Radio)*
3. M83 / Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute)
4. Exitmusic / From Silence EP (Secretly Canadian)
5. Once, The / Row upon Row of the people they know (Borealis)*
6. Pack a.d. / Unpersons (Mint)*
7. Sleuth Bears / Parochial Youth (Bridgeport Falls)* Local
8. Isenor, Corey / The Hunting Party (independent)*
9. Darcys, The / Aja Interpreted By The Darcys (Arts & Crafts)*
10. Bad Vibrations / Black Train (independent)*
As always, you can find the entire Top 30 chart on !earshot hereabouts…
Recruiting: Radio Drama Writers
CFRC’s Radio Residencies program for 2011-2012 continues with the recruitment of two Kingston-area writers to create original radio dramas. Interested applicants should submit a 1 to 2-page proposal, outlining their project’s theme, subject matter, source materials, production techniques, a plan for involving CFRC volunteers and Kingston community members, and addressing how the drama will engage with local issues and stories, reflect the diversity of the region and connect with listeners from other places.
Proposals may be submitted to cfrcops@ams.queensu.ca until Monday, February 6 at 4pm. Successful applicants will have access to audio production training, CFRC’s studios, portable digital recorders, honoraria to recruit project volunteers, and a $1000 honorarium for completing the project. Finished pieces will be broadcast on CFRC, shared with other community radio stations and debuted at the Screening Room in April. CFRC’s Radio Residencies project is made possible through the City of Kingston and the Kingston Arts Council through the City of Kingston Arts Fund.
