Viken Afarian. Mondays @ 9.30 pm, Saturdays @ 8 am, and Sundays @ 7.30 am

Born in Beirut Lebanon, Viken is educated in Montreal with a Bachelor in Science (Agriculture) from McGill University.

Over the years Viken has held many managerial positions in the private sector and is now the operations manager at Lernapharm, a local pharmaceutical company. He is married to his lovely wife Soline and has a daughter.

Since his university years Viken has been active in many social and community organizations and has been a member of his students’ council; a member of the McGill board of governors; has held many responsible positions in the Armenian community of Montreal; was an active member of the 1989 Armenian earthquake relief organization; has run for municipal office; was a school commissioner at the Commission scolaire de Montreal; was a member of the board of the Fondation de la Tolérance, Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne and the “Complexe aquatique, sportif et communautaire de Cartierville”, a member of the “Conseil des relations interculturelles du Québec”; in 2002 received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal and since 2004 has produced the Armenian program on Mike FM.

Voice of Tekeyan. First Monday of the month @ 9.30 pm.

Dr. Artin Arzoumanian is a retired Medical Doctor, born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, and graduated from Beirut’s American University as an MD. He came to Canada in 1966, specialized in Nuclear Medicine and worked in the Montreal General Hospital until his retirement in 2002. He has been active in the Montreal Armenian community serving mainly in the St. Gregory Armenian Cathedral and the Tekeyan Armenian Cultural Association. He has been in charge of the Voice of Tekeyan Armenian program on CKDG 105.1 FM (now Mike-FM) since its inception in 2004.

Voice of Tekeyan is an Armenian language two-hour radio program broadcast on the first Monday of each month from 9:30pm to 11:00pm. It is sponsored by the Tekeyan Armenian Cultural Association, and is the successor of the first Armenian radio hour in Canada that was broadcast weekly for close to 20 years in the 60’s to 80’s from another radio station. The current programs consist of songs, music, news, community calendar, interviews and special programs dedicated to anniversaries of Armenian intellectuals, holidays and historical events.