-Spartan Youth Radio is the only high school podcast radio station in Canada

-Spartan Youth Radio is produced by volunteers at Espanola High School

-Students also produce content as part of their Media Arts and Communication Technology courses

-Spartan Youth Radio is an award-winning movie producer. Our 2 minute short "They Shuffled Amongst Us" Spartan Youth Radio was the recipient of a Best Buy Best in Class grant of $20,000 to purchase new equipment. The movie cost us $20.00 to make, which means that we are also more commercially successful than Avatar, Casablanca, Star Wars and every Chuck Norris film.

-We have interviewed Billy Talent; author Margaret Atwood; Les Stroud aka the Survivorman; the Weakerthans; Oliver Pride; steampunk bands Abney Park and Vernian Process; Mother Mother; Karen Kosowski; NDP leader Jack Layton; actors Adam Wilson, Kevin Duhaney, Kevin Morrison, Jack Blum, Norma Dell-Agnesse, John Bregar and Travis Van Winkle; comedian and activist Derek Forgie; rappers Kidd Russell and Plex; rocker Derek Miller; Olympian Waneek Horn-Miller; producers Chris Chesser and Janelle Wookey; MP Carol Hughes; adventurer Lawrence Poole and many more we're sure we've missed on this list!

-our student reporters have received mad props from our guests. Actor Kevin Morrison said that "those were the best questions I've ever had...I mean, you did your research!" Author Margaret Atwood wrote in her blog that "my interviewer, Madeline Lemire, was a credit to radio. She did a fine job of it: well-prepared, poised, and a million times friendlier than my first radio interviews back in 1969." An anonymous guest said that "you asked better questions than CTV just did!"