Trent Radio AGM 25 Nov 01 General Manager's Report / John K Muir

Established and operated by the students of Trent University,
Trent Radio is designed with the production of exceptional radio
in mind.

Its aims and objectives include producer oriented programming and
broad community participation for the production of creative
local radio.

Administrative Mission:
The provision of radio production equipment and related
training, direction and facilities in support of radio
programming activities and programmer development.

And, general support for the artistic, research and
administrative activities by those involved in the organisation.

In carrying out that mission the following functions are
performed;

The operation and maintenance of 715 George Street which houses
an archive, two radio studios, associated meeting areas,
offices, storage facilities, and a revenue producing residential
rental apartment.

The operation and maintenance of a licensed 250 watt radio
transmission facility at Television Road, with the addition of a
internet accessible stream source

The provision of salaried and contracted programming personnel
with the specific charge to provide direction, support, and
inspiration to volunteer programmers.

Overview:
Operations reflect on-going and project priorities established
over the last four years, as well as moving towards making
support of the mission more manageable.

a) the purchase of a new transmitter and related equipment.

b) the purchase 715 George Street - Trent Radio House.

c) the establishment of a Spoken Word Archive.

d) the establishment of and ongoing improvement to a flexible
      "in-house" computer network with a high speed connection
      to the internet, to aid and abet programming, production
      and support for same.

e) production and distribution of publicity (Trout Rodeo & guides)

f) support for the development of radio art pursuant to
      stimulating innovative programming.

g) on-going maintenance of the music archive

h) general on-going programme direction

i) general day-today administrative and technical direction and
      support

j) related office, building & technical overhead

k) developing on-going and new sources of revenue in support of
      the above.

Operational and Other Highlights not covered in previous reports:

In August 2001 Trent Radio elected to pay off both the mortgage
on the house purchased in 1984 and the bank loan which was
secured for the change of frequency and power in 1997.  It is an
exciting time!

Since starting my work here as General Manager in 1994, I have
seen Trent Radio's revenues rise from about $65,000 per year to
close to $90,000 with expenditures on capital improvements and
debt reduction over that period amounting to about $92,000.  We
should never gloat, but we've all done a good job.

This last year we incurred some heavy expenses to repair the
transmitter but thanks to some outside editing work, and
increased sponsorship revenues we were able to weather the
storm, and look forward to some new challenges such as the
Studio C project and a Heritage Canada funded digital ingest
project being organised by a consortium of universities and
ourselves.

A grant of $3,288 was received from the federal government to
hire a student for twelve weeks during the summer, this is the
same amount as the year previous

The CRTC approved our application to renew our broadcast licence
to 31 August 2007, and accepted the special resolution approved
by the Membership at the last AGM

I would like to single out both Emily Addison and Barb Woolner
for their extraordinary work and support  during the last year.
Thank you!  And, thank you all for your support, encouragement,
good humour, patience and hard work.

John K Muir,  25 Nov 2001