From our radio fam­i­ly to you and yours, we wish­ing you noth­ing but the best over the hol­i­days and in the year ahead! Though the bet­ter part of the last 2 years has been stress­ful and weird, we remain stead­fast in our belief that by stick­ing togeth­er we can hope­ful­ly come out of this COVID-induced haze in the new year. 

Start­ing Mon­day Decem­ber 20^th and run­ning until Tues­day Jan­u­ary 4^th, the sta­tion will be closed — yes, we real­ize that we’ve been closed since March 2020, but we mean that our staff and vol­un­teers will be tak­ing some well earned days away from radio relat­ed things. While some pro­grams will run as usu­al, oth­ers are tak­ing a break and in their stead we’ll be bring­ing you some spe­cial sea­son­al pro­gram­ming. Dur­ing the break some of our syn­di­cat­ed talk pro­gram­ming, includ­ing Democ­ra­cy Now will be air­ing repeats or maybe pre-empt­ed for some sea­son­al or end of the year specials.

It’s cer­tain­ly been a cou­ple of strange years for our vol­un­teers — we’ve been pro­gram­ming from home for the past 21 months, but we are hope­ful that bet­ter days are on the near hori­zon. With the Uni­ver­si­ty Of Man­i­to­ba slow­ing open­ing up again in Jan­u­ary, we are aim­ing to get our pro­gram­mers back to doing what they love to do — being in the booth live each week, mak­ing great radio that comes from the heart. We can’t thank you, our loy­al lis­ten­ers, enough for all your sup­port through­out this stretch — your emails and calls have been the fuel that has kept us going, strength­en­ing our resolve and sharp­en­ing our focus!

We see you, we hear you and most of all, we appre­ci­ate you — thank you for your support.

The UMFM staff and Volunteers