pre-1980
Click play on the archives to hear actual programs and spots from this period, and scroll through the images and clippings. You can also select a decade at the bottom of the page to find more recordings, images and ephemera from that era.
Because this is a living, ongoing project, we’ll be adding more content to every page, presumably forever. So visit often, and enjoy!
memories
Bonnie Durtnall and Carol Barrett on the progression towards the FM licence (Recorded in 2021):
Bonnie Durtnall and Carol Barrett on CFRU in the early days (Recorded in 2021):
Bonnie Durtnall and Carol Barrett on procedures around legitimizing the FM licence (Recorded in 2021):
Bonnie Durtnall and Carol Barrett on music programming in the 1970s (Recorded in 2021):
Featured Archives
CFRU Vintage Instructional Video: Microphones (1979) with Ian McDiarmid
CFRU Vintage Instructional Video: Tape (1979) with Ian McDiarmid
CFRU Vintage Instructional Video: The Recording Set-Up (1979) with Ian McDiarmid
CFRU Vintage Instructional Video: Editing (1979) with Ian McDiarmid
