{"id":549925,"date":"2026-03-20T22:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549925\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T22:35:09","slug":"chmr-manager-blindsided-by-munsus-plans-to-cut-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549925\/","title":{"rendered":"CHMR Manager \u2018Blindsided\u2019 by MUNSU\u2019s Plans to Cut Funding"},"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\/2026\/03\/935-chmr-fm-recording-studio.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"CHMR Manager 'Blindsided' by MUNSU's Plans to Cut Funding\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The recording studio at CHMR-FM (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Memorial University\u2019s Students\u2019 Union is considering shutting down a long-time staple that has developed the careers of countless broadcasters and journalists.<\/p>\n<p>MUN Radio, which goes by the call letters CHMR, has been broadcasting for the last 50 years, but MUNSU is planning to bring forward a motion that will bring the station\u2019s long history to an end. <\/p>\n<p>Station manager Rhea Rollman says the news came as a complete shock.<\/p>\n<p>She says they had \u201cno idea\u201d it was coming. She says neither she nor the CHMR board of directors received any official communications about the decision. \u201cIt is really shocking.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p>She says as manager she was hoping to make the station more autonomous and not as reliant on funding from MUNSU.<\/p>\n<p>What happens next remains to be seen, as she says she\u2019s not sure MUNSU has the legal authority to shut the station down.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; The recording studio at CHMR-FM (VOCM News) Memorial University\u2019s Students\u2019 Union is considering shutting down a long-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-549925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549925","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=549925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}