WR Podcasts is CKMS-FM Radio Waterloo’s showcase of some of the podcasts produced in Waterloo Region. Each week we air one or two episodes from local producers to give you a taste of what’s available in Waterloo Region.
WR Podcasts returns to the schedule on Friday mornings at 9:00am starting 30 October 2026.
Podcasts in the rotation:
On Wisdom features a social-cognitive scientist in Waterloo and an educator in London discussing the latest empirical science regarding the nature of wisdom. Igor Grossmann runs the Wisdom & Culture Lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Charles Cassidy runs the Evidence-Based Wisdom project in London, UK.
Watershed Writers with Tanis MacDonald features interviews within an exciting mix of local fiction writers, novelists, poets, authors, playwrights and essayists.
United Voices Podcast from United Way Waterloo Region Communities is designed to share perspectives with real stories, challenges, and solutions that are shaping our region. Each episode tackles critical issues like the housing crisis, mental health, poverty, and community well-being.
CRSP Talk Podcast has researchers from Wilfrid Laurier University talking to researchers, students, practitioners, and policy and social change makers to explore diverse topics related to human security. CRSP Talk features discussions about threats to human security as well as insights into how it is enhanced and sustained. Along the way, they periodically pause to discuss the research process itself and how researchers journey from generating ideas to sharing findings.
Orbiting The Same Sun Until Further Notice by Oscar Espinosa is a daily logbook on surviving the void from a sitting position. It’s the audio logbook of an ordinary crew member on Spaceship Earth — daily dispatches on routines, work, and the small maintenance of a life. Deadpan, raw, slightly surreal.
Waterloo Region Podcast Producers! Do you want your podcast included in WR Podcasts? Drop us a line at office@radiowaterloo.ca with your podcast pitch!
The simplest way to describe “the vinyl sound” is close-mic’d instruments with high quality mics, and certain mics cooked with compression (not file compression; i’m talking dynamic range control in modern parlance) and maybe a bit of tape distortion if you wanna get crazy with the even-order harmonics that analog recording mediums will give you when you exceed 0 dB. Digital doesn’t distort in a pleasing way. That’s the “vinyl sound.” It has very little to do with vinyl itself.
oh, this is too much. You have a podcast called “Old Grey Mayors?”
This will be a fun listen. (I’m not new to campus radio at all. Been on the air before, actually. But this is the first time I’ve really heard 102.7 for longer than it takes to drive past KW on 401.
Sadly, “WR Podcasts” is not on the schedule at the moment. But if you’d like to sponsor it, then we’ll put it back on the schedule! And in a timeslot of your choice (green and yellow timeslots on the schedule are available). Sponsorships cost $31.00/month for an hour show in Prime Time, and $15.50/month in Off-Peak times.
Check out https://radiowaterloo.ca/how-to/start-a-new-show/