CJSF is your local, independent, community-based radio station and media outlet. We have played your music, we have told your story, we have rallied around your cause. And this matters WHY?
Because our community matters. Showcasing what s going on in our community matters. As a listener and media consumer, you matter. It matters that you hear yourself represented, and your voice included in ongoing grassroots dialog.
Every day we are working to bring you great programmering and make CJSF better. We have been expanding our local and community news coverage. We are undertaking a years-long major project to replace our broadcast tower and improve our broadcast signal. It is not easy though. We are under finacial pressure. Our funding is fixed but everything in life and radio just keeps getting more expensive, Your donation will help us weather the storm so we can keep bringing you the radio you love.
Your donation to CJSF Radio during Fundrive is a vital contribution that allows CJSF, your community radio station, to continue to rise higher and reach farther. Riding the favourable winds of your support, we can reach our Fundrive goal of $10,000 in community support.>
CJSF s home on the radio dial is more than a frequency - it represents a space for the community to grow, create content and share stories that you will not find elsewhere on the radio dial.
Your continued financial support during Fundrive allows CJSF 90.1 FM to thrive as a vibrant, independent and grassroots voice, and to share the bounty of our community both on campus and in our surrounding community.
We’ve been expanding on local coverage and with your help, CJSF can continue to amplify voices and issues you won’t hear on mainstream radio. We have added a full-time local report to so we can cover our local communities better.
Some of the stories we’ve shared recently include:
This is journalism that matters, and it’s only possible because of you. When you donate to CJSF, you’re not just supporting a radio station, you’re supporting your community. Local journalism is important and we are working hard to cover our communities and expand our ability to keep you informed.
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Help us rise higher and reach farther.
Donate online now at cjsf.ca/donate.
CJSF relies on your financial support in an ever-changing world.
Your donations during Fundrive are an important part of our funding and they help to paint the overall picture. The largest part of our funding comes from the students at SFU, through a per-student fee-levy. It is not much per capita, but with a large enrollment, it adds up quickly. However, our last increase to this fee-levy was in 2008, and since that time enrollment at SFU, and therefore our funding, hasn’t seen any growth.
This means that our biggest revenue source, essential to running the radio station, has not increased in nearly 17 years! Inflation has eaten away at the purchasing power of our funding every year, with purchasing power declining by more than 40% (since 2008?).
It has gotten to the point where we will have to start making cuts to our operations to keep ourselves out of the red (in the black).
Your donations are more important than ever! Fundrive assists CJSF Radio through these tough times, and allows us to maintain important initiatives, to support our programming and you as our listener.
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Help us rise higher and reach farther.
Donate online now at cjsf.ca/donate.
Running a 24/7 radio station is an expensive undertaking. Significant infrastructure needs to be purchased, maintained and replaced on an ongoing basis to keep us on the air: Studios, computers, media players, CD players, turntables, microphones, websites, servers and more! Costliest of all are our transmitter, antenna and tower. This equipment allows us to broadcast over the air to reach you in your home, your car or wherever you are listening to the radio across the Greater Vancouver area.
For the last three years, we have been working with SFU to replace our broadcasting tower on the roof of the WAC Bennett Library on the Burnaby Campus. It is a big project that, when all is said and done, will cost more than $100,000 but is critical to preserving and improving our ability to reach you across the Vancouver region on FM.
We have been setting aside money and resources for a long time, helped in a big way by your Fundrive donations, to make this project possible. Due to the steep cost, it will significantly drain our capital replacement fund leaving us a little more vulnerable. Your help will allow us to complete this critical project.
This work also creates an opportunity to make upgrades and do other work on the transmitter that will give us a significant boost in signal quality and strength improving our reception across our listening area.
Your donations ensure our broadcasts can rise higher, and will help CJSF reach further!
Scan the QRCode to donate
Help us rise higher and reach farther.
Donate online now at cjsf.ca/donate.
If you prefer to donate by cheque, send us a cheque made out to CJSF Radio.
📫 Mailing Address:
CJSF Radio
SUB 1420, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Call during our office hours at 778-782-2573 to speak to a Fundrive Operator to make your pledge.
Or leave a message anytime with your name and number and your donation amount and we will call you back to finalize your donation.
Mondays, 3-4pm
At CJSF, we strive to carve out space for our volunteers to find community, make new friends, and to find their niche.
Using those opportunities, though, in turn, Typically Tuesdays holds space for listeners to think about new ideas, to be creative, to explore and to make fun and play.
That's what CJSF has offered us
Home is where your heart is, and my heart is with the music and the people of CJSF. My home at CJSF coincided with my landing in Canada as a permanent resident. You are sure to find some music you will love on CJSF... my radio home and my music home.
Donate to CJSF because we support local, up-and-coming and under-represented artists from Vancouver and around the world. We play what we want, when we want... to support CJSF is to support Freedom on the airwaves!
Thursdays 7-8pm; repeats Tuesdays 3-4pm
When I started at CJSF back in 2010 [at] Ryan Fletcher's show, I found that it was very nice that they had water provided, a little microwave, which was very interesting. It was almost like home, and I felt very much at home having all the comforts of home
[My time at CJSF] was very special because Ryan Fletcher was instrumental in getting me up there and introduced me to radio back in 2010 on his show, Melodies in Mind after working on the show for a few years, it really grew on me, the music, and just the talent that we have in Vancouver I just loved the music. So it stuck with me, I went down the right road.
Fridays 7-9pm, in Russian; repeats Thursdays 7-9am
Home is where you are expected and where you want to come. CJSF is just such a place[,] that connects us with the home we left... because we are all on the same wavelength and understand each other.
Why should folks donate to CJSF? Because it feels right. They know where it is going. They like the inclusive environment. It is useful to their neighbourhood. There are people on the shows that sound like they care about things. It is different from the other channels
Sundays 10-11am
Home is where people can speak their mind without fear of reprisals. In my show, musicians can speak from their heart in music..
People should donate to CJSF because it's where grassroots voices are featured while major media outlets are being more consolidated than ever via mergers and layoffs.
Sundays 2-4pm, in Italian
[CJSF] is the only radio station that brings the best music (at least my show!) and [where] persistent listeners will pay attention and donate generously! We should show passion to the programs when they go on air!
Since the mid-1960s, from the very beginnings of Simon Fraser University, we've been home to offbeat sounds played by all kinds of folks, on campus and beyond. After years of moving between various homes on the airwaves, we settled down 20 awesome years ago in 2003 at 90.1 MHz on the FM dial (and at http://cjsf.ca on the Internet before that!)
But CJSF's home on the radio dial is more than just a frequency - it represents a physical space for the community to create content and share stories that you will not find on mainstream radio. Since August 2021, CJSF has been broadcasting from its new permanent home in the SFU Burnaby campus's Student Union Building, after decades under the Burnaby campus's Rotunda area above the Transportation Centre bus loop.
Help us celebrate 20 years of awesome independent media with your financial contribution to CJSF 90.1 FM: with your support we can continue to awesome independent for another 20 years and beyond.Support our to our 6th annual Fundrive today!
