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= CJUC-FM =

Station Information and History
CJUC-FM is a Canadian community radio station that broadcasts on the frequency 92.5 FM in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. CJUC broadcasts from the Frostbite Music Festival headquarters building located in Shipyards Park, downtown Whitehorse.

The station was officially started in 2003 by Robert Hopkins from Tagish, Yukon Territory and was approved to broadcast on 20 February 2003. The station was originally set up in the back of a commercial space in downtown Whitehorse but moved to its current location in Shipyards Park in November 2009 after a brief broadcasting hiatus.

On 9 March 2007 the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the station's first broadcasting licence renewal application and stated that CJUC could continue operating as a regular English-language FM type-B community radio programming undertaking CJUC is a member of the National Campus and Community Radio Association (NCRA/ANREC). On 20 March 2014 Johnnie Regalado, NCRA/ANREC Board of Directors, and Freya Zaltz, NCRA/ANREC Regulatory Affairs Director, wrote a letter to John Traversy, Secretary General of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, in support of the Utilities Consumers' Group Society's request to renew the CJUC broadcasting licence. On 27 May 2014 the CRTC renewed CJUC-FM's broadcasting licence from 1 September 2014 through until 31 August 2021.

CJUC is a run as a non-profit organization and does not sell advertising time over its airwaves. As this is the case, CJUC relies on donations from the community in order to continue its day to day operations as a radio station. The station spent the first several years of its existence broadcasting with previously used transmitter as well as other second hand equipment .The station broadcasts on a 50 watt FM mono signal and the broadcast area covers less than the area of Whitehorse, so over time improving the transmitter became necessary On 1 October 2013, as part of an over $137 000 granted by the Yukon Government to several community organizations in the Yukon as part of the Community Development Fund, CJUC received approximately $6841 in funding to be used toward the purchase of a new transmitter. On 14 August 2015 station manager Bill Polonsky announced plans to fund raise over $10 000 to pay for the relocation of the station's transmitter to the top of Haeckel Hill in Whitehorse, which will significantly increase the station's broadcast range. At the same time Polonsky announced future plans to apply to the CRTC to upgrade the station's broadcasting licence from 50 watts to 600 watts, which would further expand the stations broadcast area beyond the area of Whitehorse, to Fox Lake, Lake Laberge, and Marsh Lake.

CJUC runs on an automated broadcast platform using OpenBroadcaster software. The OpenBroadcaster platform was created by Robert Hopkins and was chosen as the broadcast platform for CJUC because of its local and homegrown nature, as well as its easy to use interface, open source licence, and its low cost maintenance. The easy to use interface of OpenBroadcaster is important for CJUC as much of the station's programming in produced by volunteers in the community who may not have prior experience in radio broadcasting. The majority of the programming on CJUC is not broadcast live to air but is rather produced in advance and uploaded to the OpenBroadcaster platform. The platform allows the station manager and the volunteer program producers to upload their content from any home computer with internet access, as opposed to producing shows in studio. The OpenBroadcaster software allows show producers to upload MP3 files of songs, prerecorded talking segments, bumpers, and station identification notices to fill up their allotted time with programming content. The software controls all of the actual broadcasting requirements outside of the content creation. CJUC is also set up to act as an emergency broadcast network to inform and warn residents about potential emergency situations, like approaching forest fires in close proximity to communities.

Volunteers
In addition to providing the actual media content for CJUC, the station also requires volunteers for tasks such as fundraising, soliciting business sponsorship, events planning, community outreach, graphic arts for promotional and marketing purposes, audio production, script writing, and musicians for broadcasting live performances.

Programming Details
CJUC offers listeners a wide range of programming from in both the music and talk radio formats. Some original programs produced for CJUC include CJUC Presents: Yukon Spotlight, CJUC Breakfast with the Beatles, CJUC Night Rock, Dianne's Country, Good Morning Yukon, HJ Shows, Mid Afternoon Rock, and Volunteer Yukon Show  Along with programming contributions from volunteers CJUC also broadcasts syndicated programs from both national and international sources. Some examples include the Church of the Subgenius' Hour of Slack, Terra Informa, and Best of British.

While the majority of programming on CJUC is prerecorded for upload, the station does occasionally broadcast live-to-air performances and shows. On 21 June 2015 host Lindsay Dobbin broadcast the first incarnation of her Somewhere Over the Radio show live from 7 p.m. through to 7 a.m. the following day as part of the Whitehorse Nuit Blanche Festival. Local disc jockeys, DJKJ and Pacesetter for example, also occasionally host live-to-air DJ sets as well The main stage performances of the Frostbite Music Festival were broadcast live on CJUC for three consecutive years from 2010 to 2012.