CKDU-FM is a non-profit campus and community radio station based at Dalhousie
University serving listeners throughout the Halifax Regional Municipality. Our mandate is to provide an alternative to private and public broadcasters and serve as a forum for diverse and under-represented voices and artists. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is run by roughly 150 volunteers, a volunteer board of directors, and 4 permanent part-time staff.
Nature of the Job:
CKDU is celebrating thirty (30) years of campus and community radio broadcasting on February 1, 2015. The CKDU Archivist and Documentary Producer will work to preserve, archive and celebrate CKDU's history of audio and visual materials. The Archivist and Documentary Producer will work alongside Programming staff to digitize 150-200 reels that contain spoken word and music programming from the years 1980-2000, while cataloguing the information in a database and creating an accessible platform for broadcast use. Working toward the 30 year anniversary, the Archivist and Documentary Producer will scan, date, and catalogue photos, print materials and awards from CKDU's 30+ years as an active community media centre in Halifax. The Archivist and Documentary Producer will also launch a weekly 1 hour radio program entitled 'Vintage CKDU' wherein these historical tapes will be shared with listeners. The Archivist and Documentary Producer will work with CKDU staff and a committee of volunteers to produce a 30-60 minute audio documentary on CKDU history. Alongside staff, Board, and volunteers, the position will assist in the coordination a community-wide event on CKDU's 30th anniversary February 1 2015 to unveil the audio and visual materials chronicling CKDU's history. On this commemorative date the Archivist and Documentary Producer will release the documentary on CKDU history. In conjunction with the Anniversary, the station will launch a webpage at CKDU.CA that features the audio and visual archives as well as the documentary.
For more information visit ckdu.ca.