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Fundraising

Power Up Community Radio 2025 Fall Fundraiser

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CKMS Radio Waterloo Announces: 

The Power-Up Community Radio 2025 Fall Fundraiser

Pledge Your Donation!

November 1st through November 14th, 2025

Power-Up Community Radio

Once again Radio Waterloo asks you, our listeners, to support the only true community radio in the Waterloo region. We provide the only local platform for diverse voices, music, and ideas, fostering a stronger sense of community and connectivity in the region.  As a non-profit, volunteer-driven station, we rely on the generous support of our listeners, local businesses, and community members to continue delivering high-quality programming and support the creative voices of the region. 

Radio Waterloo has partnered with some generous businesses in our community to thank you for your donation. Each donation gets you one chance at the prize of your choice.  At the end of the funding drive, we will select a donor to receive one of each of the following gifts.

Kückt Highline 3Bike Rack (retail value $349) from ZM Cycle & Fitness A box with a picture of a bike rack "Kuct Highline 3" (ZM Cycle & Fitness logo along bottom)

Giro Scamp bike helmet for youth (retail value approx $50) from ZM Cycle & Fitness A green bike helmet with the logo "GIRO" sits on top of a box with a blue label "Giro Scamp Youth Small" (ZM Cycle & Fitness logo along bottom)

Pearl iZUMi gel bike gloves (retail value approx $50) from ZM Cycle & Fitness Black and grey bike gloves with the sales label attached "Pearl iZUMi" (ZM Cycle & Fitness logo along bottom)

Fox Ranger bike gloves (retail value approx $50) from ZM Cycle & Fitness Orange and black gloves with the sales label attached (ZM Cycle & Fitness logo along bottom)

Jan Henderson professionally framed Reclining White (Siberian) Tiger Print (44″X28″) (retail value $200) from Don & Kim Janzen Photo of framed Jan Henderson White Tiger print. Reclining Sirian Tiger, mostly black and white with one flesh coloured paw showing.

Jay Turser Guitar, amp, tuner, strap, stand, cable (retail value $426) from Shaw Music Studios Photo of electric guitar,amp,cables,stand (Shaw Music logo in top right corner)

Taxi vouchers (retail value $150) from Waterloo Taxi Waterloo Taxi and lokal hailing app logos

Funko POP Moment, U2’s Zoo TV Tour (1993) (retail value $120) from B & K Collectables Photo of POP Moment, U2’s Zoo TV Tour (1993) Exclusive Deluxe POP! Vinyl Funko Pop Figures, Black Friday 2022 Exclusive collectible piece. (B&K Collectables logo along bottom)

Funko Pop Jakks Pacific WWE Unmatched Fury The Rock Premium Figure (retail value $75) from B & K Collectables Photo of Jakks Pacific WWE Unmatched Fury The Rock Premium Figure, Originally circulated in 2007, this is a sealed piece that is no longer in-production and is a great collectible from WWE's Attitude Era. (B&C Collectables logo along bottom)

Funko Pop Retro Toys – Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone vinyl figure (retail value $37) from B & K Collectables Funko Pop Retro Toys - Fisher-Price Chatter Telephone vinyl figure (with B&K logo along the bottom)

Street Hop T-shirt (retail value $20) from Carmelo Farruggio Street Hop | Thursdays @ 10PM | 102.7 CKMS FM | DJ CARMELO | RADIOWATERLOO.CA (silhoutte of DJ Carmelo with a cane, white on black)

$50 Gift Certificate from Dog-Eared Café and Bookstore from Dog-Eared Café A woodcut of a coffee cup peeled open like a dog-eared page in abook, surrounded by the text "Dog-Eared Café | Secondhand Books - First Rate Coffee | Paris, Ontario | Est. 2021"

CKMS 102.7 FM logo white T-shirt (retail value $20) from Carmelo Farruggio CKMS 102.7 FM Radio Waterloo (teal rectangle with rounded corners and a yellow and black sunflower on the left and black text on the right)

Radio Waterloo Sunflower T-shirt (retail value $20) from Radio Waterloo A blue T-shirt with a yellow sunflower on an antenna tower and the text "CKMS 102.7 FM | Est. 1977 | Radio Waterloo" (CKMS 102.7 FM Radio Waterloo logo along the bottom)

CKMS-FM 102.7 Radio Waterloo

Pledge Your Donation!

You can also show your support for Radio Waterloo by:

  • Becoming a Member: Join the CKMS-FM family by becoming a member of the station and enjoy exclusive perks including a “Host Your Own Show” certificate.
  • Sponsoring a Show: Local businesses and organizations can sponsor a show and receive ongoing recognition on the air.
  • Volunteering: Get involved in station activities and share your talents with the community.

On behalf of all the volunteers at Radio Waterloo, THANK YOU !

Pledge Your Donation!

CKMS Community News, Newsroom, Shows

CKMS News -2023-10-17- Radio Waterloo Responds to Meta’s C-18 Reaction

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CKMS News – 2023-10-17- CKMS Responds to Meta’s C-18 Reaction

by: dan kellar

Waterloo – “We have not been able to engage with any of our listeners on those platforms… We’re just getting caught up in it and it is not very fair to us.” is how Radio Waterloo’s president Nat Persaud responded when asked by CKMS News about the effects of Meta’s actions which de-platformed and restricted the community radio station’s Facebook and Instagram pages.

Similar to many community radio station across the country, Radio Waterloo, also known as CKMS, started to see restrictions on Facebook posts in August, and by September the station’s Facebook posts and profile were not viewable by folks inside of Canada. In early October, Radio Waterloo’s Instagram account had the same restrictions.

Meta has introduced restrictions on their platforms in response to the Canadian government’s bill C-18, which became law in June 2023 and is on track to come into full force in December. The bill, known as the Online News Act, in part seeks to impose fees on large social media and search engine companies for allowing Canadian created news content to be shared as links on their platforms, in effect charging the internet companies for re-publishing content if they profit from the interaction through selling advertising space or collecting and selling user info.  

At this time, only Google and Meta meet the triggering guidelines of the legislation, though if other companies increase their revenues or presence in Canada, they too would have to follow the new regulations. Google has said they will implement their reaction to C-18 in December, with the delisting of news from the platform. 

For today’s show, CKMS News spoke with CKMS President Nat Persaud and CKMS News editor Bob Jonkman, who are both members of the station’s technical team, and Barry Rooke, the executive director of the National Community and Campus Radio Association.  The interviews included questions about the effects of bill C-18 on station operations, adaptations to the social media restrictions (like joining the fediverse), and ideas of the role of the government in funding community radio and local news.

For more in-depth background and analysis on Bill C-18, lawyer Michael Geist has discussed C-18 thoroughly on his website and podcast, which you can find at michaelgeist.ca/tag/c-18/

Events

CKMS MEGA CD (AND VINYL) SALE

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As part of CKMS 102.7FM – RadioWaterloo’s 40th year celebrations, we are having our largest CD sale of the year.
This is your chance to browse through the hundreds (and hundreds) of CD’s that Radio Waterloo has accumulated over the years.
Every genre imaginable, covering many many years of the Radio Waterloo history.
Come one, come all to pick up CD’s you simply will not find anywhere else at insanely cheap prices…and there will be a LIMITED amount of vinyl LP’s available, though we do not expect them to last long.
The best part?   Every penny you spend will help fund Radio Waterloo so we can continue providing the community the very best radio experience.
This great event is happening on November 25th from 8am to 2pm at the Radio Waterloo studio  at
283 Duke St West
#114B
Kitchener, ON N2H 3X7
Mano-A-Mano, Shows, Station

The Sonic Tapestries of The Alpacas

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This podcast and video have been a long time in the making. This was filmed as Radio Waterloo was leaving the 108 King Street Studio Location. Because of that the audio is a bit glitchy in the podcast but as you can tell in the video above the harmonies provided by the Alpacas were unwavering.

Check out this amazing band in the video above and podcast below.