Member Resources

Sign up for a TOUR to learn all about the station and how to get involved. Tours are held weekdays at noon – please sign up at least one day in advance. If you are not on campus regularly, you can email Zoe at volunteer@citr.ca to sign up for a tour or check out our virtual station tour below.

Opportunities

• Create your own radio show!
• Volunteer for free passes to local events! (email promotions@citr.ca)
• Discorder Magazine: polish your writing, photography, and design skills!
• Get behind-the-scenes with our News, Sports, and Arts teams!
• Come hang out in our lounge with Shaquanda… you’ll see…

Membership gets you:

• A Friends of CiTR card for in-store discounts
• Free technical/production training and access to studio equipment during SUB hours
• Member rates for sound equipment rentals and Mobile Sound
• Inside our 50,000+ CD, LP and 7″ music library

Member links:

• Click here for the Burli Podcast Editor
• Click here for the Podcast Time Marker button
• Click here for CiTR’s record library and playsheets
• Click here for Training Videos – a refresher on how to use equipment

Member resources:

• Our CiTR Programming Policies, CiTR On-Air Codes of Conduct and NCRA Regulatory Guide are the basics for broadcasters. Get to know them.
• The CRTC pages on everything broadcast! Music categories, election campaigns, best practices, Canadian Content, Turntablism, etc.
• Our Programmer Training Manual outlines your on-air role and responsibilities
• Our Setting Up Your Show guide gets your podcasts going
• Our Marantz User Guide gives you cheat notes on how to use our Marantz digital recorders, and the proper Marantz Manual will explain everything in great detail
• Our Zoom User Guide gives you cheat notes on how to use our Zoom digital recorders, and the full ZoomH2 Manual will explain everything in great detail
• Our Live Broadcasting Proposal Form for programmers who want to broadcast live on location
• Our Live Broadcasting Manual will tell you everything to know about broadcasting live
• Here is Tyler Noble’s Remote Broadcasting workshop
• Our Programmers Forum CiTR Programmers Forum
• Watch this video to learn How to Submit Your Podcasts to itunes.
• Check out this Trans Style Guide to help you write clearly, consistently and respectfully about trans issues.

Training

Sign up for our training tutorials:

1. Technical
2. Programming
3. Production

You must sign up in order of sessions offered above and at least 24 hours in advance. We recommend coming in for a tour first. If you are not able to physically sign up at the station, please send us an email at programming@citr.ca.

Once you’ve done your training, you’re ready to submit a show proposal and recorded show demo. Reserve one of our studios to work on your demo by blocking off a time on the studio schedule posted on the door. Print off this show proposal form to begin!
CiTR Show Proposal Form