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World Radio Day 2025

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Farm Radio International / Radios Rurales Internationales (illustration of a microphone with leaves at the base on a green background, text in a circle around it) As we gear up to celebrate World Radio Day on Thursday, 13 February 2025, we are excited to invite you to a significant event that underscores radio’s vital role in uniting communities across Canada and beyond. We were thinking you could provide some valuable information and interesting discussion during this event on our live-to-air, syndicated radio show and in-person event.

After last year’s event, the NCRA/ANREC, CKCU‑FM and Farm Radio International are collaborating once again to bring you an environmentally focused live-to-air broadcast. With this year’s theme being “Radio and Climate Change” we hope to showcase the transformative power of radio in promoting dialogue, fostering cultural diversity, and giving a voice to underrepresented communities.

What to expect

If you’re attending in-person at Carlton University in Ottawa, there will be snacks with radio peers alike and a live broadcast by CKCU‑FM. This is an event that aims to bring industry professionals together, as well as politicians, to showcase the power of radio.

The event will take place at Carleton University from 11:00am to 2:00pm EST on Thursday, 13 February 2025. Lunch will be provided free of charge. CKMS‑FM Radio Waterloo will be simulcasting the event with CKCU‑FM.

How to Participate

Attend in person and be live on air for a quick discussion.

This discussion can touch on the theme “Radio and Climate Change” or another relevant theme to community radio, and our celebration could take 5 to 10 minutes.

If you wish to attend, registration is free, but you need food numbers. Please reserve your spot.

If you cannot attend but would still like to show your support, we ask that you take the time to tune in and show support for your favourite local radio station, campus radio, public broadcast, or a special program that day.

We look forward to seeing you on World Radio Day.
Warm regards,

Barry Rooke
Executive Director NCRA/ANREC
On behalf of NCRA/ANREC, CKCU‑FM and Farm Radio International


Get more information about World Radio Day from UNESCO and from the NCRA Invitation to World Radio Day 2025.

CKMS at Winterloo on Saturday 25 January 2025

(black stylized W on a yellow background)Winterloo is Waterloo’s yearly, free, Winter celebration, visited by thousands and held in Uptown Waterloo. With ice carvers, skating in the Square, entertained by DJ King Kadeem, you can enjoy hot drinks, food trucks, and giant games with your friends and family.  The event starts at Noon and runs til 5 pm.

A man in a thick winter coat and hat, and sunglasses, holding a microphone in one hand, with the other arm extended. People are playing in the snow in the background.
Felix Ranchero in the CKMS booth at Winterloo 2024.

CKMS will have our booth set up in the
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Visitor Information Centre, Waterloo.
Visitor Information Centre Map
with DJ Carmelo of Street Hop starting at Noon. We are featuring DJ Bridge with the Megamix Show from 2pm to 4pm and DJ Felix of Atardecer Ranchero/Dusk on the Ranch at 4pm til closing.

A man wearing red headphones and a bright rasta-coloured jacket standing behind DJ gear, with a sticker labelled "DJ King Kadeem", all inside a clear vinyl bubble.
DJ King Kadeem in the DJ Dome at Winterloo 2024
CKMS relies on volunteers to attend events. We are working on CKMS exposure in the community! Come out and see us and say hello! Dress warmly!
A man wearing a thick winter coat and hat, and bright orange gloves at table holding two microphones, and a banner that reads "102.7 FM CKMS"
Bob Jonkman in the CKMS booth at Winterloo 2024.

This event requires snow and cold weather; in case there’s no snow on the 25th of January, the backup date for the event is the 1st of February. 

Let it snow!

CKMS New Year’s Eve Special

Wine glasses and streamersJoin the CKMS DJs, show hosts, volunteers, and friends for the CKMS Second Annual New Year’s Eve Special!

We’ll have an evening of chitchat, music, witticisms, music, banter, and more music. It’s an On-Air New Year’s Eve Party. Bring Your Own Egg Nog.

We’ll get started sometime after 8:30pm on Tuesday 31 December 2025, and go until well after midnight. You can chat with the on-air crew in the Chat Box on the Listen Live page.

Ring in the New Year with your favourite Community Radio Station!

Special: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, 3pm on 30 September 2024

September 30, 2024 is the fourth federal statutory holiday to honour residential and day school Survivors. Radio Waterloo and the Illustration of three birds, yellow, orange, brown, flying in a circle divided into four arcs.National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR), in partnership with the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation, will be broadcasting a 90-minute fully-bilingual live broadcast event to mark the day. This is an opportunity for you to hear from Survivors, and to help to further reconciliation efforts.

The gathering will be broadcast live from Parliament Hill in Ottawa between 3:00pm-4:30pm Eastern Time on Monday, 30 September 2024.

This is an opportunity to amplify the voices of survivors through the only live broadcast National event to commemorate this important day. This broadcast pays tribute to the children who never made it home from residential schools and honours those who survived. This deeply-moving gathering will encompass sacred ceremony, powerful reflections from esteemed Elders and Survivors as well as moving performances from First Nations, Inuit and Métis artists.

The event itself is open to the public and will draw thousands of Canadians together in a gesture of healing.

The event, shaped by the NCTR’s Survivor’s Circle, is held partly in response to the Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (CTA #85) and the Calls for Justice from the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (CTJ#6.1).

CKMS-FM New Year’s Eve Special

Happy New Year (with animated fireworks)Join the CKMS programmers, show hosts, DJs, and other volunteers as they kick out the Old Year, play a few tunes, dance up a storm, and ring in the New Year.

The fun starts at 8:30pm on Saturday 31 December 2023 and goes to 1:00am on 1 January 2024. Listen on the radio at CKMS-FM at 102.7 Radio Waterloo, or the online stream at https://radiowaterloo.ca/listen, where you can send your New Year’s greetings in the chatbox!

A Wilmot Christmas Carol

The Weber Family sing during 'A Christmas Carol' in Trinity Lutheran Church
The Weber Family sing during ‘A Christmas Carol’
A dramatic reading of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, “A Christmas Carol”, has been a festive family favourite in the township of Wilmot for many years, with proceeds from the production being donated to local causes.

2021 was the first year the event was organized by the Wilmot Terry Fox Run, which Nigel and Cheryl Gordijk led from 2013 to 2023.

Because of the uncertainty surrounding in-person events due to COVID and public health, the show was pre-recorded and broadcast on Facebook. The audience was asked to show their appreciation by donating online to the Wilmot Terry Fox Run, with all proceeds going to the Terry Fox Foundation for cancer research. You can donate at The Terry Fox Foundation.

Radio Waterloo is pleased to present to you a special audio version of A Wilmot Christmas Carol. Check our schedule throughout December for various air times.


The performance took place on 11 December 2021 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Hamburg. The readers are Nicole Lee Quesnel, Adrienne Enns, Brittlestar, Alison Enns, and Reid Spencer. Musical performances are by The Weber Family, Reid Spencer and Jamie Courtney, and Alison and Adrienne Enns. Technical production was by Rick Ritz, and Lisa Hagen was the producer and director.


View the video on Facebook at Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol | Wilmot Terry Fox Run