K1037 Kahnawake to Remain on Air for Community
Written by Webadmin on 18 March 2020
Kahnawake’s Covid-19 Task Force is requiring all businesses in the community to identify their essential services. K1037 Radio announced it will abide by a directive from the Task Force and close its doors to the public at the end of the day today (Wednesday). However, as an essential service in the community we will remain on air with live news and other shows. James Java Jacobs is K1037’s Program Director. “We received a directive from the Covid-19 Task Force that all non essential workers are to work from home so that’s what we’re going to implement. Today is going to be the last day for people to work in the office. However, because we are an essential service as the radio station, the on-air personnel will continue to come into the office because if there is something that happens in the community we need the community to know what is happening. All on-air staff will remain but all non essential office staff are to work at home from the end of today,” Jacobs said.
Radio Bingo is still scheduled for this Friday night, March 20th at 7:30 PM.
“I spoke with Lloyd Phillips (Commissioner of Public Safety) and asked his opinion on it and he said: ‘Look there’s a lot of stuff that people can’t do, give them something to do. The distributors are still open so if they get them from there then do it for this week.’ He’s going to assess again next week if maybe we should shut the bingo operation down. But he said this week is a go,” Jacobs said.
