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Friday, December 19, 2014
Radio Cowichan does Christmas — with strings attached LEXI BAINAS CITIZEN
Volunteer firefighters tackle a fire in a camper filled with garbage located in a wooded area behind the Super 8 motel south of Duncan on Tuesday evening. The flames were contained to a small area and were extinguished before they could spread. [KEVIN ROTHBAUER/CITIZEN]
Last week Christmas arrived in a big way at the Radio Cowichan studios in Lake Cowichan. According to program director Mike Bishop of CICV Radio 98.7 FM, there were strings attached “and keyboards and percussion instruments and some lovely voices as well.” A total of 11 Cowichan Lake area musicians stormed the station to produce an in-house Christmas music CD to be played on air throughout the festive season. It’s all about brightening the holiday airwaves with seasonal songs sung by Lake Cowichan folks, Bishop said. “We’re going to set up a whole bunch of microphones and such and do a recording session of all the Christmas carols that they know,” he said before the session. “Then, we will make them into individual songs and during the whole 24-hour broadcast day we will just insert the locally-produced songs of the season.” All the recording was done on
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one day. “This is just the kind of locally produced Canadian Content music that a community station needs,” said program manager Rick Endres. The finished CD contains 12 Yuletide classics ranging from Angels We Have Heard on High to Christmas in Killarney. Even outside the broadcast area, which is currently only around Cowichan Lake, it’s possible to pick up the programming by tuning in to cicv.streamon.fm. At Cowichan Lake, it’s on the radio dial at 98.7 FM. Broadcasting on the web is a real asset for the community station. The station’s mobile crew atteded the Lake Cowichan School Christmas concert, Thursday, Dec. 18, and recorded it in its entirety. It will be rebroadcast on the weekend. That way the students themselves will be able to enjoy hearing their show and they can let grandparents and other relatives know when to listen. See SIGNAL, Page 10