We've Celebrated Another Year of Awesome Programming at CJLO 1690 AM

If you're just tuning in to CJLO for the first time and aren't sure of where to start, or even if you're a long time dedicated listener, we're proud to announce the winners of the 2013 Diego Awards.

The CJLO Diegos is an annual awards ceremony that was created to celebrate a year of hard work and quality programming that our amazing volunteers put into CJLO 1690AM day after day.

It's a celebration of their dedication and tireless effort into making CJLO 1690AM a quality radio station, and a celebration of independent media and community radio at large.

CJLO has over 66 original shows and below are the ones that went above and beyond this past year.

The Winners Of The 2013 Diego Awards

The Robert Vairo Award For Broadcasting Excellence:
Stroll Around The Groove

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The Phil Donahue Award (Best Talk Show):
Funk Shui

The Yank Crime Award (Best Rock Show):
The Feel Good Hit Of The Summer

The Niche Award (Best Specialty Show):
The F-Hole

The Bad News Brown Award (Best Hip Hop Show):
Stroll Around The Groove

The Pete Tong Award (Best RPM Show):
Autobeat

The Smelt Your Face Award (Best Metal Show):
BVST

The Lucky Dube Award (Best World Show):
The Live Wire Show

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The Welcome to the Jungle Award for Best New Show:
Anatomy of Caribbean Music

The CBC Award for On Air Professionalism:
Beats From The East

The Ol' Gil Award (Most Underrated Show):
Going Down Under

The MAPL Award for Canadian Content:
The Commonwealth Conundrum

The Radio 3 Award (New Music Supporter):
Grade A Explosives

CJLOL Award (Funniest Show):
Funk Shui

Most Improvement:
Greedy Graffiti

The Wayne and Schuster Award for Best Team (who host a show):
Julien Bourgeois and Mourad Bennacer (Stroll Around The Groove)

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The Fox News Award for Excellence in News Journalism:
Saturn de los Angeles

The Pitchfork Award For Excellence in Music Journalism:
Fredy Iuni

The Butch Vig Award for Excellence in Production:
Marco Lucci

The Bored and Wanting to Get Out of the House Award (for excellence in volunteer commitment):
Remi Caron

Keener Award for Most Helpful DJ:
Angelica Calcagnile

The Show Me The Money Award For Fundraising:
Caribbean Callaloo

Rob Fleming Award for Best Mix Tape:
Eric the Tutor (The Limelight) - Sextape Sessions V5

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Ryan B. Arditi Lifetime Acheivement Award:
Nassim Tabri (ex-Beautiful Music For Ugly Children host)

(photo by Omar Sonics)