(Marc-Andre Hamelin/Radio-Canada - image credit)The University of Ottawa's independent campus radio station, CHUO 89.1FM, is losing the funding it gets from students after they voted to end a levy. "It's still really early to say definitively that it will end the radio station, but it's going to definitely be a different radio station," he said. 'No inquiry, no discussion'The referendum question that ended CHUO's funding was one of 10 that students voted on during the recent byelection. "This type of radio, this particular radio station, serves the needs of a very important niche community that unfortunately sometimes don't get seen or heard through mainstream radio," Coddett told Ottawa Morning on Tuesday. "We might see another referendum question to kind of re-evaluate this question ... as it comes into play in September of 2024.


Source:   CBC News
October 17, 2023 14:11 UTC