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CKRZ-FM
CKRZ-FM is a radio station in Ohsweken, Ontario. Owned by the Southern Onkwehon:we Nishinabec Indigenous Communications Society (SONICS), the station airs a community radio format for the region's Six Nations and Mississauga First Nations.
History.
The station started broadcasting in 1987. Its frequency is 100.3 FM and is available on Rogers cable, channel 951 in Brantford, Kitchener, Woodstock and London.
CKRZ's broadcasts are multilingual, broadcasting in Cayuga, Mohawk, and other languages.
On Sundays, CKRZ-FM still hosts a radio bingo with jackpots of up to $16,000.
Financial crisis.
On January 29, 2009, the station announced that due to a rising debt load of more than $100,000 and reduced advertising revenue, it would leave the air on February 1, 2009. At an emergency meeting of SONICS' board and membership, the members subsequently voted to continue the station, as they considered it an asset to the community.
Walt Juchniewicz, a broadcast engineer from Hamilton