CKLN Shite
Got a note this morning via FB from Verlia Stephens, saying she had "just got a letter from Mike and Tony stating that my volunteer services at CKLN are no longer needed effective immediately". (Mike and Tony are Mike Phillips and Tony Barnes Station Manager and Program Director respectively)
For those who don't live in Toronto, Verlia is the highly respected programmer/DJ whose 'Limin' in de African Diaspora' show on CKLN (Wednesdays at 11am) has run for many years now. (She is also a friend, as are - full disclosure - Claudia McCoy, Paul Corby and Victor Bains Marshall, three other programmers at the station)
This letter that Verlia received is the latest episode in the long running and bitter controversy at CKLN that I blogged about earlier in the year. Since apparently other CKLN volunteer programmers have received similar letters in the last day or so, it looks like CKLN management have now decided to make huge changes over there, changes which would affect CKLN's audience in a major way.
Whether the programmers who received the termination notices are the same ones who have attended meetings to oppose current management is unclear to me. And will this turmoil affect CKLN's flagship shows such as Ron Nelson's Reggaemania' and Denise Benson's 'Mental Chatter' is also a matter of speculation.
Meanwhile, Verlia says she will show up tomorrow at the station as per normal. Since I had already intended to drop by with some Pupy music and giveaways for Lulaworld, I'll be there as well.
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