WINNIPEG - After nearly 10 years, Red River College’s student radio station 92.9 KICK FM will go silent this afternoon. Cre-Comm Radio Inc’s board of directors cited “recent changes to CRTC regulations regarding campus and community radio stations, and financial challenges” for returning the current broadcast license to the CRTC, in a statement posted on their website. The change to the regulations was announced this past January, when the CRTC stated it would cease licensing stations that exist purely for educational reasons. The station, as planned, never became self-sustaining, and Red River College continued to fund KICK FM and provided...
