The INCA Media Labs are home to two facilities for students to learn and explore multi-media storytelling.
These spaces include a full service radio podcasting and full service station with go live capabilities. Known affectionately as CFNU, it is a teaching space that includes a live-streaming station for student work and live productions. It is also home to an audio podcasting space. In addition to the media lab, there is also a second television space, complete with anchor desk, for student television productions.
Both spaces are students focused and led by professors and instructions with decades of in-the-field, mainstream journalism experience in radio, television, online, and print journalism.
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CFNU was born in the SIFC trailer, outside College West at the University of Regina, in 1994. Today it is a modern podcast lab and streaming radio studio at First Nations University of Canada.
The radio station project was led by INCA students, including Nelson Bird, with help from INCA instructor Shannon Avison.
“We got a carrier current license that took our audio signal and sent it along the wiring of our SIFC trailer,” explained Avison. “It was pretty primitive, especially by today’s standards; but, it got our broadcasts out to the world…the world of the SIFC trailer and anyone parked nearby.” Fast forward 40 years and our media lab station - CFNU - has the capability to stream to a global audience. Using Internet technology, listeners worldwide can enjoy CFNU at www.cfnuradio.ca.
INCA MedIa Labs Access and Use
INCA Media Labs – Access and Use
INCA Media Labs is a student media production and learning space within the Indigenous Communication Arts (INCA) program at the First Nations University of Canada. The lab supports course-based instruction, student assignments, and approved academic projects.
INCA Media Labs is not a campus radio station and not a community radio facility. Its primary purpose is to serve INCA students and courses.
The lab operates under the supervision of Dr. Merelda Fiddler Potter (Faculty Lead) and Shannon Avison (INCA Program Coordinator). All studio access, bookings, and equipment use must be approved in advance.
Priority use is as follows:
INCA courses
Student assignments and projects
Approved INCA program initiatives
Requests from community organizations or external users must be submitted in writing with project details and requested dates. Approval is not guaranteed and may be declined if it conflicts with student use or the lab’s academic mandate.
All equipment and studio space are reserved for approved academic use, and access may be refused or revoked at the discretion of INCA Media Labs leadership.
For access requests, please contact Dr. Merelda Fiddler-Potter mfiddler@fnuniv.ca or Shannon Avison savison@fnuniv.ca