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Sandy Silver interview April 8, 2022 CHONfm
Technical updates remote community satellite services completed
With the aging Telesat Canada Anik F1R geostationary satellite coming to it’s EOL (end of life) in fall – 2021, a new satellite has taken over the job to distribute the CHON-FM signal to all communities across the North.
This transition required new programming of the main satellite receivers and most of all, the major large satellite dishes in all communities (large white dishes with a red lightning symbol on them) had to be readjusted.
This massive engineering project was completed in November 2021.
20 First Nations Yukoners are being paid to learn their language "I would love to see all my cousins and all young First Nations people from the Yukon pick up their language," says one participant hired for a new language program. Nika Silverfox-Young introduced herself in Northern Tutchone on a phone call with CHONfm this afternoon. She didn’t translate to English because according to her Elders, that normalizes the […]
