Hello All!

As you may have read, LU Radio is holding a fundraising Radio-A-Thon on March 27th and 28th from 9am to 9pm both days. Instead of having us all simply chat away, we would love some guests to come on and chat with us and/or play music. If you are interested in being a guest on the Radio-A-Thon please get in touch with Don Drouillard at dondrouillard@gmail.com . Space is limited (and we are limited to acoustic performances, our studio is small) so please get in touch with us ASAP if you are interested in performing and/or being a guest during our Radio-A-Thon.

Thanks, and hope you all tune in!

Five years ago this week LU Radio launched into the airwaves of Thunder Bay. For 5 years now we’ve been broadcasting at 102.7FM here in town and world-wide at www.luradio.ca even longer. In fact, LU Radio actually started about 17 years ago, broadcasting strictly in the halls of Lakehead University. However, it’s the FM broadcast that really pushed LU Radio into the ‘limelight’ so to speak and has really gotten us noticed in Thunder Bay. The outpouring of support from the students of Lakehead University as well as the Thunder Bay Community and the dedication and hard work put forth by our volunteer base has been absolutely incredible. Many faces have moved through the station over the years, and every one of them deserves to give themselves a pat on the back for their part in the growth of the station.

For those of you here in Thunder Bay, I encourage you to take a drive past our house at 707 Oliver Rd. and see the sign that The Old Vicar (host of Harpin’ With The Blues on Saturday 10:30-Noon) has created for us. Special thanks go out to Wanson Lumber and Tangent Stairs here in Thunder Bay. Both companies helped to supply the station with the materials needed to craft this incredible sign! For those of you outside Thunder Bay, pictures will be coming soon!

You’ll probably have noticed the new website, which is going to allow us to expand what it is we do here online. Special thanks to Andrew Doran host of Frequency (Friday 10pm-Midnight) for working so hard on this! The blogs feature isn’t ready to go yet BUT Andrew is working hard to get it ready so keep your eyes open for it! Also, thank you to Dan Klein, host of Thursday Afternoon Jazz (Thursday 2-4pm) for getting us a server so we can stream again so quickly! Finally, a special thanks to the Kyle Family and Mary J. for helping out with the Open House today! Oh, and thank you to everyone who dropped by to say hello!

I could probably thank each and every person here but no one would read it so…thank you all. Whether you are a volunteer, programmer, former LU Radio member, listener and/or supporter. Everything you have done has helped to get us where we are. It’s been an amazing 5 years and we’re looking forward to many, many more!

It’s been so busy around here lately that I keep forgetting to update in advance!! Going on this evening (Tuesday Feb. 23rd) beginning at 5pm and running all night until 7am it’s the Homelessness Marathon originating at CKUT in Montreal. LU Radio  will be hosting a segment live here at the station from 1-2am. We will be discussing homelessness and poverty in Thunder Bay and Northern Ontario. Since we had some technical issues today, we will be broadcasting from inside the station instead of outside, feel free to call in, we’ll do our best to get questions answered and on the air! 807-766-7207.

Wednesday at 7pm, the Lakehead Thunderwolves Women’s Basketball team will be hosting a playoff game at home for the first time in years! I encourage you all to attend the game if you can, but if not, never fear, we will be broadcasting the game live here on LU Radio. We will also be broadcasting the Mens Basketball playoff home game on Saturday at 7pm here at the station! This does mean that Classical Thunder Bay and Rawk Star Gurl’s Rawkin’ Hour of Rawk And Roll will be pre-empted but should be back on track next week!

Don’t forget that NEXT Friday, March 5th, LU Radio celebrates our 5th birthday with an open house here at 707 Oliver Rd. from noon-8pm. There will be DJ’s on hand, cake to be eaten and new stuff happening here on the website and here in our front yard! Stop by or give us a call at 343-8881 if you would like some more information!