Join Clara from 1-2:30 for The Washing Machine. Now on Wednesdays, WM has gone music variety. So don’t be afraid to throw in your favorite t-shirt, socks and towels, The Washing Machine is mixing it up… musically.

Hey rock n’ rollas, today we’re saying goodbye to one of CJAM’s best shows, Beating Time. Every Wednesday morning from 10:30am to noon, Angela Womann fought the good fight against the mainstream junk. Old school punk was on the menu and she served it up with scandalous stories about your favorite skeezebag rockstars. Some tracks were rare, independent, bootlegs, obscure, or just hot off the vinyl pressing.

Angela is off to an intergalactic journey of adventure, equipped with crime fighting, hot rod racing, spirited gymnastics, bizarre kidney and chassis rattling chases, and a belly busting karate chopping judo flipping fight to win them all. She is heading to Planet Deutschland!  We wish her well on her space voyage. If she ever returns to Galaxy Windsoria, we hope she will stop by CJAM 99.1fm.

Listen to the last Beating Time here.

April 2, 2012

PROGRAM DIRECTOR JOB POSTING

CJAM 99.1 FM — Student Media/University of Windsor –– is hiring for the position of PROGRAM DIRECTOR. This salaried full-time position is 35 hours a week. It requires a flexible individual who is available for occasional evening and weekend duties.

CJAM is a nonprofit volunteer-driven campus-based community radio station providing an alternative to the music and spoken-word programming featured in the mainstream media — serving listener communities that are often under represented or maligned.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: The Program Director is responsible for all aspects of programming. Working with staff, management, and the Program Committee, the successful applicant will help fulfill CJAM’s mandate of providing the community with quality alternative programming that is in compliance with CJAM/CRTC policy.

Duties include:

• Ensuring that CJAM remains on the air at all times, and that what is on the air is properly documented and stored as per CRTC expectations.
• Exercising and enforcing CJAM/CRTC policy.
• Keeping the program schedule evolving with spoken word and music programming in accordance with CJAM’s mandate.
• Serving as a resource for CJAM volunteers regarding all matters relating to broadcasting and programming.
• Working with the Volunteer Coordinator to ensure CJAM volunteers receive satisfactory training and skill development relating to broadcasting.
• Reviewing and evaluating all programs regularly with the assistance of staff, management, and the Program Committee.
• Ensuring that the Program Committee meets at least four times a year and that members are roundly consulted between meetings.
• Hosting 0.5 to 2 hours of programming weekly.
• Filling in as a DJ when needed.
• Ensuring that all programming content is of a high quality and in compliance with CRTC guidelines and CJAM mandate.
• Building partnerships with groups on campus and within the larger community to foster continuity, quality, and relevance in programming.
• Assisting in coordination/scheduling of sports broadcasting and special events.
• Production, rotation/traffic and broadcast and of paid commercials, public service announcements, station IDs, music events/community/arts calendars, etc.
• Production and review of daily commercial assignments.
• Coordinating volunteer use of CJAM production studios and equipment.
• Coordinating production of community events/arts/live music calendars.
• Regularly updating CJAM’s website with programming news and schedule information.
• Maintaining dedicated office hours.

Qualifications:

• Excellent interpersonal, communication and listening skills.
• Demonstrated experience, and knowledge relating to non-commercial music, news, views, and culture.
• Experience in journalism and new media.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Conflict resolution and management skills.
• Computer and basic radio/audio production skills.
• Friendly and patient disposition balanced with an ability to enforce policy.
• Management or Volunteer coordination experience a plus.

TERMS: 35 hours per week

SALARY: $24,000-$28,000 to start, depending on experience. Two weeks vacation plus extended health benefits. Please apply online to applications@cjam.ca by April 24. Only qualified applicants selected for interviews by the Hiring Committee will be contacted.

CJAM is an anti-sexist, anti-racist, anti-homophobic organization committed to diversity and equity. We strongly encourage applications from all visible and non-visible minorities. Where there is equity in qualifications preference will be given to minority applicants.

uTalkin2Me with BigJD – Wednesday, March 28th @ 4pm

This afternoon’s show is on “Autism Awareness” (Autism Awareness Day is April 2nd) & BigJD’s guests are…

UWindsor Professor Dr. Elizabeth Starr - who came to U of Windsor in 1996 and is a professor in the Faculty of Education. She teaches differentiated education (special ed.) to pre-service teachers and a graduate course on autism. Dr. Starr served on the Ministry of Education/Ministry of Child and Youth Services Autism Reference Group – a multidisciplinary group whose goal was to make recommendations related to education provisions for students with autism spectrum disorders.

Rita Miceli from Autism Ontario - mother of four children, one of whom has autism.  She is actively involved with Autism Ontario for the past 13 years and presently Co-President of Autism Ontario, Windsor/Essex Chapter. Rita Miceli works for the GECDSB as a teacher and also as a professor in the “Autism and Behavioural Science Graduate Program” at St.Clair College.

Michael Rizk & Heather Howe – from “Autism And Us.” They are currently working with a U of W professor and some Masters students on a project to help people with “special needs” become more independent. They are very hopeful that this project will help reduce the stress and anxiety of their clients’ everyday lives while also boosting their self-esteem.

and Livia Congi, a mother of four kids, the oldest with autism. He is 8 years old, and was diagnosed at 25 months.

Also on CJAM this afternoon:

The Windsor Scene is your premiere spot for local music, airing live every Wednesday from 5:00 until 6:30 pm.  On this week’s episode, your host Lauren Hedges interviews pop-punk group We Can Be Heroes as they gear up fro their show with Ten Second Epic at The Room (255 Ouellette) on April 5^th. Tune in to hear their music and discussion with Lauren, plus great tunes from other bands playing Windsor’s venues this weekend. Only on CJAM 99.1 FM, redefining radio in Windsor and Detroit!