{"id":306587,"date":"2025-11-25T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306587\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:00:10","slug":"chmr-hosting-series-of-fundraisers-to-keep-station-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306587\/","title":{"rendered":"CHMR Hosting Series of Fundraisers to Keep Station Running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/mun-memorial-university-generic-3.png\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"CHMR Hosting Series of Fundraisers to Keep Station Running\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>CHMR, the Memorial University campus radio station, is launching a series of fundraisers to help keep their operations going. <\/p>\n<p>The station, which mostly consists of volunteers, has been around in various forms since 1951.<\/p>\n<p> In that time the station has played a vital role in giving local artists and community groups a platform, as well as in training broadcasters who would become staples of the province\u2019s media landscape. <\/p>\n<p>CHMR News Director Colleen Power says fundraising has always been a part of the way CHMR is run.<\/p>\n<p>She says everything is more expensive these days and they are just trying to keep the station going. <\/p>\n<p> She says they are going to do a couple of money-raising efforts a year to keep their operations going, noting they need a \u201cbit of a boost.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The station\u2019s first one is a celebrity karaoke event. It is taking place at the Breezeway next Thursday, December 4th.<\/p>\n<p>VOCM\u2019s own Russell Bowers and Richard Duggan, who are CHMR alumni, will be participating. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; CHMR, the Memorial University campus radio station, is launching a series of fundraisers to help keep their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-306587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}