{"id":575523,"date":"2026-04-01T16:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:48:10","slug":"munsu-to-provide-update-on-future-of-chmr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/575523\/","title":{"rendered":"MUNSU to Provide Update on Future of CHMR"},"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\/04\/935-chmr-fm-microphone-in-main-broadcast-booth.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"MUNSU to Provide Update on Future of CHMR\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A microphone in the main broadcast studio at CHMR-FM (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Memorial University\u2019s Students\u2019 Union is going to give us an update on the fate of the campus radio station \u2013 CHMR.<\/p>\n<p>A meeting is taking place this evening to discuss the possibility of cutting funding to the station which has been on the air for the last 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Talks of shutting down the radio station has <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/03\/20\/chmr-manager-blindsided-by-munsus-plans-to-cut-funding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been met with criticism<\/a> from some students and the public \u2013 most notably those in the media who cut their teeth in the industry by volunteering at the station. <\/p>\n<p>MUNSU<a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2026\/03\/25\/munsu-to-discuss-fate-of-chmr-in-upcoming-meeting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> has cited financial concerns<\/a> as the reason why it\u2019s considering pulling funding for CHMR.<\/p>\n<p>The union will provide an update tomorrow at 11:50 at the Loft.<\/p>\n<p>VOCM News will have more details as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A microphone in the main broadcast studio at CHMR-FM (VOCM News) Memorial University\u2019s Students\u2019 Union is going&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-575523","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\/575523","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=575523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}