Local 107.3FM

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  • Local 107.3FM Picks Up Two National Community Radio Awards

    Local 107.3FM Picks Up Two National Community Radio Awards

    From June 7-11, 2017, Local 107.3FM joined over 100 delegates in Abbotsford, BC to represent community radio stations from all across Canada at the National Campus & Community Radio Conference. Along with several days of panels and workshops, the week’s events included the National Community Awards. With 20 categories receiving over 200  topnotch submissions, competition was certainly fierce from producers all across the country. It is with ecstatic fervor that we can announce that for the first time ever, we took home two separate awards.  These awards will sit alongside previous national awards for Best Small Station (2002) and Community Development (2012).

    Best In Creative Production
    Michael Mohan/Abigail Smith/Mike Specht/Sadie Donahue

    Judge’s Comments: “Beautiful, simple production. Haunting. Reminds me of WireTap.”

    Funded by the Saint John Community Arts Funding Board, local photographer/filmmaker and St. Stephen native Michael Mohan was chosen as Local 107.3FM’s first-ever artist-in-residence in August 2016. Working with Local-FM staff, Mohan created a fictional call-in show titled “Loveline” in which film, radio, and memory overlap. You can view the trailer for the accompanying short film here. There were pieces about this project on The East and CBC.

    Best In Syndicated Radio Show
    !earshot 20 (Anthony Enman & Brian Cleveland)

    Judge’s Comments: “Interesting to discover Canadian Artists – Great hosts.”

    Produced from Local 107.3FM, !earshot 20 is a nationally-syndicated radio program presently airing on over 30 campus and community radio stations across Canada (from Halifax, NS to Kamloops, BC). The program features a countdown of !earshot’s top 20 most played albums on campus and community radio stations in Canada, musician interviews, entertainment news from Exclaim!, and more.

  • Quality Block Party

    Quality Block Party

    Local 107.3FM are proud sponsors of the upcoming Quality Block Party!

    A new celebration of independent New Brunswick culture and talent, the Quality Block Party will bring together some of New Brunswick’s most talented artists for five days of music and mayhem during the 2017 East Coast Music Award Week in Saint John: April 26th-30th.

    Reflecting on the breadth and passion of New Brunswick talent, this block party offers a supplement and added experience to the ECMAs to those living in Saint John and to friends visiting from away.

    Music, art and speaker performances will take place all week in multiple Uptown Saint John businesses found on the Quality Block on Germain and Princess Streets. The amazing line-up already includes:

    Julie Doiron, Motherhood, Little You Little Me, Galpines, The Squirts, Janowskii, Keith Hallett, Bad People, CHIPS, The Waking Night, Reagans Rayguns, Jane Blanchard, The Hypochondriacs, Owen Steel, Young Satan In Love, Beard Springsteen, Nerve Button, Right Shitty, Some Dads, Penny Blacks, Graeme Kennedy, Cellarghost, Math Class, Butcher, ER and the Other, Wrote, 1995 Zellers, plus more artists and events to be announced.

    We can’t wait to bring you more details along the way!

  • Thank You, Saint John!

    Thank You, Saint John!

    Funding drive is an exhausting week in the most positive sense of the word. Months of planning from staff is put into action by our tireless volunteers who give it their all and hope you respond. Well, Saint John; respond you did! You made those phones ring and threw your love online to give us our best funding drive result ever.

    We expect to announce a final, official tally at the end of November as we collect donation bins and last minute pledges, but our preliminary total is amazing:

    $3773!

    That’s nearly double what you helped us raise in 2015!

    Thank you, thank you, a million times thank you!

  • Welcome Sadie Donahue To Our Team This Summer!

    Local 107.3FM is happy to announce the inclusion of summer intern Sadie Donahue to our team for the next eight weeks as our Marketing/Fundraising Assistant. A local artist in her own right who is working towards obtaining a Bachelor of Music degree at Mount Allison University, Sadie joins us with experience from CHMA 106.9 FM in Sackville where, in addition to producing radio, she has been involved in organization, promotion, sponsorship, networking, and more.

    Sadie writes: “Becoming so involved with the station gave me the chance to meet people I may have otherwise not met, introduced me to music that I now love, and has taught me not only the importance of reaching out to a community, but how to reach a community. Radio is important to me because it gives a community a mutual interest, a mutual goal, and a sense of a collective purpose for your area. It can also be a way for an individual to express themselves to a community, whether it is through their discussions/music on their show or what an individual chooses to vote for within a certain poll.”

    Say “Hi!” to Sadie when you see her around the station and events this summer.