Cabin Radio

Cabin Radio is a Canadian independent hyperlocal web media organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.^[1] Launched in 2017 by Ollie Williams, a former BBC Sport reporter who moved to Yellowknife in the 2010s after marrying a Canadian woman he met while covering the 2010 Winter Olympics, the organization currently operates a news website and an Internet radio stream, as well as posting news updates to various social networking sites.^[1]

The website grew from three million page views in its first year in operation to over 13 million annual views by 2024.^[2]

In 2025, the Michener Award foundation awarded Cabin Radio a $125,000 Norman Webster Fellowship grant for a journalistic investigation into failures in the circuit court system of the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories.^[3]

Community radio

In 2019 the company submitted an application to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission for a community radio license.^[4] The CRTC did not issue a decision until 2023, denying the company's application on the grounds that the Yellowknife market could not support a new radio station.^[5]

However, following widespread community opposition to the decision, the CRTC announced in 2024 that it would reopen the process, stating that the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2023 Canadian wildfires had highlighted the critical importance of reliable community-based news and information services in times of emergency.^[6] A new round of hearings started in February 2025,^[7] with the CRTC considering Cabin Radio's application alongside a competing application by Vista Radio.^[8]

On July 30, 2025, the CRTC approved Cabin Radio's application, assigning it the frequency of 93.9 FM ^[9] and the call sign CJFC-FM ^[10].