CFRC 101.9 FMCFRC 101.9 FM

Radio at Queen's began with an engineering professor's wireless club, which talked its way into an experimental licence — call sign 9BT — in the spring of 1922. The first scheduled broadcast went out on 7 October that year: a professor calling the Queen's–McGill football game from the basement of the electrical engineering building. The call letters CFRC arrived with a commercial licence in 1923, and generations of student broadcasters have insisted they stand for Crazy Fellows Raising Cain.

A century on it runs at 3,000 watts, staffed entirely by volunteers and stocked with a library of some 90,000 records, tapes and digital files. The week takes in dad rock done properly, basement noise, Indigenous news and music, syndicated blues, and a Saturday night of house and disco. CFRC Live Sessions puts Kingston bands into Studio A and records what comes out.