RADIO CKUT

Purpose

The CKUT Time Capsule will digitally preserve and make accessible the archival fonds generated by a decade of documenting unheard perspectives: a live broadcast by lesbian program Dykes on Mykes taking calls during the 1989 Polytechnique massacre; CKUT’s Community News Department reporting from behind the military lines at the Oka Crisis; detailed coverage of the AIDS crisis from Black, Indigenous, people of color, and queer perspectives. The project will focus on digitizing hundreds of programming guides, photos, documents, and audio recordings from the years 1989 to 1999. The material will be digitized, restored, preserved, and catalogued. CKUT will develop an accessible finding aid for searching the collection, and key files will be published online.