{"id":582174,"date":"2026-04-04T17:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:52:09","slug":"future-of-mun-radio-uncertain-after-student-union-pulls-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582174\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of MUN Radio Uncertain After Student Union Pulls 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\/04\/935-chmr-fm-microphone-in-main-broadcast-booth.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Future of MUN Radio Uncertain After Student Union Pulls Funding\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A microphone in the main broadcast studio at CHMR-FM (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>A student and former radio host on CHMR believes MUNSU\u2019s decision to cut funding to the\u00a0station was made too quickly and without \u201cmeaningful consultation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MUNSU will no longer fund the station, citing its own financial concerns and what it says is low listenership.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriela Nabakijje, who hosted Campus Connect on MUN Radio for two years, argues that the student survey conducted by the union was too general and may not reflect students\u2019 opinions. She believes that if the station had one more year, it could have developed a survival plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis felt more like a last-minute decision. I feel like they should have taken more time. If we got the year rather than just this semester,\u201d she told VOCM News. \u201cThat point of they did a survey and some students who shared that they don\u2019t really use the station, but that, have they asked the students who actually use the radio station?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; A microphone in the main broadcast studio at CHMR-FM (VOCM News) A student and former radio host&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-582174","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\/582174","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=582174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582174\/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=582174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}