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Program Code: 04851
Credential: Diploma
Start Dates: September
Program Length: 4 semesters
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Humber is proud to have the highest graduate employment and employer satisfaction rate of the GTA colleges based on Colleges Ontario’s key performance indicators for college graduates in 2022-2023.

Program Overview

Humber’s Broadcasting - Radio diploma program is designed to prepare you for the performative, creative, technical and business aspects of the radio and audio world. You will learn about radio station operations, broadcast and production equipment, and the fundamentals of gathering, writing, producing, and delivering content for all genres of radio and podcasting. You will also gain in-demand skills in station management, sales, marketing, news, programming and market research.

Your studies will combine practical and theoretical aspects of radio broadcasting including effective speaking skills that can be applied to announcing, and news and sports delivery. You will also be trained in writing and producing for radio using industry software and audio equipment - to fully prepare you for a variety of careers in radio.

Students in our program contribute to 96.9 FM Radio Humber, our fully licensed campus and community radio station, regulated by the Canadian Radio-Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Our signal transmits in the GTA and our station can be heard world-wide via radio.humber.ca. Your radio broadcasting education will include the opportunity to contribute to Radio Humber by creating original content in our digital studios and bringing it to life for our listeners.

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Work-Integrated Learning  

Students will participate in a mandatory work placement during the last semester of study. Our placement partners include 680 News, Global News Radio 640 Toronto, KiSS 92.5, Rogers Sportsnet 590 The FAN, 102.1 The Edge, Indie 88, Z103.5 FM, Newstalk 1010, and CBC Radio, among others.

The Humber Advantage

Stories in Sound: Humber Radio Graduate Panel and Information Session with Kym Geddes

Watch the “Stories in Sound” Info Session to learn more about the Radio Broadcasting program.

Thank You!

We are grateful to our corporate donors for their generous support of the Broadcasting - Radio program.

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"My time in Humber’s Broadcasting-Radio program will always stand out to me as two of the best years in my life. I made some great friends, and had way more fun than you should be allowed to have in school…Oh yeah, and I learned a ton!

I went to Humber because I didn’t want to just read about “the biz.” I wanted to learn by doing it. By using the equipment, recording projects, working on the school radio station and finding my way with the help of veterans who’d been there, done that and excelled.

Humber delivered in spades on all counts. I had a part-time job at the top news and talk station in the country before I’d even completed my second year, and I never looked back!

Humber delivered a foundation for me to build upon. I fully believe it was what I learned there that set me apart from and ahead of other young broadcasters when I started and I’ll always be grateful for it."

Mark Carcasole, Global News Toronto Reporter & Anchor, Radio Humber Grad

Expert Faculty

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Pina Crispo

Pina Crispo has been working in radio and content creation for the past 25 years. She was the youngest and first female to hold the title of promotion and marketing director under Corus ownership for one of Canada's top alt-rock radio stations, 102.1 The Edge.

Pina's radio career also includes spending time behind the mic while at Q107 Toronto as their street reporter, and she is currently the host and producer of The Parenting Show on Global News Radio 640 Toronto (the only parenting show on terrestrial radio in Canada).

In addition to radio, Pina is a professional voice actor and coach with close to 20 years of experience. Pina's career expands into social media as a blogger and social media manager through her brand Chic Mamma, established in 2011.

Pina enjoys sharing her passion, knowledge, and experience with her students through her Media Branding and Creative Content Development classes that she teaches here at Humber College. Pina is a proud Radio Humber graduate.

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Paul Cross

Paul Cross is a podcaster, broadcaster, documentary maker and professor. His podcast catalogue includes Cross Talk, a series on media history, commentary and analysis with an emphasis on audio media and the importance of listening, and The Erasure of Race: The Killing of Howard Joel Munroe, a collaboration released beginning in May 2021. He has presented feature workshops on specialized aspects of podcasting at Podcamp Toronto in 2019 and 2020. 

Paul's achievements in radio news and documentaries have been recognized by the New York Festivals and the Canadian Association of Broadcasters. His broadcast career includes newscasting on radio stations including CFRB Newstalk 1010, 1050 CHUM, CHUM FM and AM 640. National newscasts he wrote and anchored have been aired on CHUM group and Broadcast News/Canadian Press stations throughout Canada. His research is focused on local radio in times of local crisis.  

Paul's work with students includes news and sports reporting, interviewing, podcasting, documentaries, music program production and audio drama and transmedia storytelling.

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Robyn Foley
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Kym Geddes

Kym Geddes is a certified professional leadership coach and team facilitator.

Her areas of expertise include leadership development, team building, new leader integration, change management, executive presence, and impact and influence communication.

Kym has directed the largest award-winning news/talk radio newsroom in Canada, leading a team in all aspects of the department, including news gathering and story production efforts, and long-range content vision. She also anchored newscasts at the top-rated major market radio stations in Canada.

She was the first woman news director at Canada’s most influential news/talk radio station and was instrumental in leading a cultural transformation focused on diversity, inclusion, equality, and teamwork. She led a major digital transformation initiative and developed and implemented strategies to embrace new technologies and meet the needs of customers and the evolving media landscape.

Kym is a natural relationship builder who has cultivated an extensive professional network with newsmakers, public relations agencies, media professionals, and the business community.

Throughout her career she has been the recipient of numerous awards including multiple Radio Television Digital News Association Canada (RTDNA) awards and the Edward R. Murrow Award USA for Best National Newscast, Best Regional Newscast, and Breaking News. In addition, she received the Distinguished Service Award RTDNA Canada in recognition of outstanding contribution in the continued success of the association and exemplary distinguished service rendered for the benefit and advancement of electronic and digital journalism.

Kym received her certified profession coach designation through the International Coach Federation’s accredited Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC) and she is an Energy Leadership Index master practitioner.

She has completed numerous leadership programs including Franklin Covey: Great Leaders, Great Teams, Great Results; Franklin Covey: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People; and the University of Toronto’s EQ leadership certification.

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Neil Mathur

Neil loves radio. He built his own radio station in the basement as a kid just so he could play songs and talk on the air. In high school, Neil volunteered at McMaster University’s CFMU-FM and knew radio was his calling.

While a student at University of Toronto, Neil developed his radio skills at CHML and CHUM. On-air work followed in Montreal at The Weather Network and 990 CKIS. Neil was music director and assistant program director at Toronto's 97.3 EZ Rock and program director for Classical FM 96.3.

He also consults for media companies looking to grow their relevance and for podcasters refining their craft.

Neil earned his MA in Communication at Emerson College, Boston.

As a student of improv, you can find Neil on stage at Toronto comedy clubs as a member of The Assembly.

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Errol Nazareth

Errol Nazareth is a music journalist and the host of two shows on CBC Radio: Frequencies, which airs across Canada every Tuesday on CBC Music, and Big City Small World, which airs across the GTA every Saturday on CBC Radio One.
He's been playing professionally with words for over 20 years and has written for The Toronto Sun and the alternative weeklies NOW Magazine and Eye Weekly.

Errol teaches in Humber's radio programs, as well as two Media Writing courses and a Music Journalism course at Centennial College. He has also taught journalism at Centennial and at Ryerson University.

He’s judged three butter tart festivals in Ontario over the last few years and counts Public Enemy's Chuck D as a close friend.

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Steve Saylor

Steve is a Humber alumni from the 2010 Radio Broadcasting class. He has been a digital content creator since 2005. He's a podcaster, YouTuber, streamer, graphic designer, social media expert, and an influencer in the video game industry. He currently is an accessibility advocate and consultant for video games.

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Dean Sinclair

Radio enthusiast forever. 
Student talent audio whisperer.
Radio station whisperer.
Work horse -- not a show horse.
Love amazing stories.
Love the gig!

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David Tooke
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John Vercillo

Senior Production Producer for Q107, 102.1 The Edge, Global News Radio 640 Toronto, 95.3 Energy FM with Corus Entertainment Toronto. Career spans over 44 years in the Radio Business with Slaight Communications, WIC Communications and now with Corus Entertainment.

Has taught part time at Humber College for over 15 years in both Radio Broadcasting and Media Foundation.

Education: Honours Diploma - Radio Broadcasting, Humber College (1977)

Your Career

Turn up the volume on your future with a radio broadcasting education from Humber.

Radio and podcasting are thriving fields with hundreds of radio stations across Ontario and thousands more across Canada, the U.S., and the digital and satellite space. With your diploma, you’ll have what it takes to succeed on air and behind the scenes. Our graduates work as music and talk show hosts, news and sports anchors and reporters, podcasters, audio and content producers, sales and marketing representatives, and music and program directors at stations across Canada including prominent Toronto stations such as KiSS 92.5, CHUM 104.5, Sportsnet 590 The FAN, Indie 88.1, 102.1 the Edge, Newstalk 1010, 680News and CBC Radio.

Follow in the footsteps of media personality George Stroumboulopoulos and hundreds of other Humber radio alumni who are household names in their communities and across Canada.

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