Volunteer-powered, listener supported - we couldn’t exist without either.
The dollars and cents of it.
Running a radio station, even one staffed predominantly by volunteers, costs money.
Like any other station, we have maintenance costs, rent, office supplies, licensing, insurance and other things to pay for. CJSR also spends a fair amount of its budget helping to raise more money—things like the swag we give out to donators at Fundrive aren’t free, and neither is the infrastructure we’ve had to build to accept donations.
Still, we run CJSR on a shoestring budget, and we do it with our principles intact: CJSR might be swimming in money if we took corporate ads, for instance, but we don’t because we believe that being the voice of the under-represented in this city means doing it with every second of airtime, and corporate advertising doesn’t really fit into that.
Friends of CJSR
Local businesses that back the station
Friends of CJSR are Edmonton businesses and organizations that sponsor the station. Every spot they get is produced in-house.
