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The Student Radio Awards is an annual event hosted by the [[Student Radio Association]]. Every year, URY enters itself for several different awards, sometimes winning.
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  |brief=Maintains URY's computer systems, both hardware and software.  Keeps the URY streams and website running.
  |csec=[[Constitution#Computing_Team|Here]]
  |roles=[[Head of Computing]]<br />[[Assistant Head of Computing]]<br />[[Webmaster]]<br />[[Computing Officer]] (multiple)
  |teammail=computing@ury.org.uk
  |freshermail=computing@ury.org.uk
  |hotmail=head.of.computing@ury.org.uk
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'''Computing Team''' is the URY [[team]] responsible for maintaining URY's computer ordinance, both hardware and software.


== What do we do? ==
== Trivia ==
* URY's very own [[Coco Cole]] was one of the Voices of the Awards in 2012.  A small amount of gratification was to be had when she eventually had to read out URY's Best Technical Achievement submission name.
* In 2013, URY was joint first in Most Nominations with Fly FM, and Most Awarded with Fly FM and URN.
* Harry Whittaker was the first person in living Student Radio Association history that has received 3 nominations in a single year.
* In 2018, the team behind URYspy won three SRAs and were invited to speak at that year's RadioTechCon
* In 2020, URY received its highest number of nominations recorded on this wiki, and the highest number of wins.
* In 2020, URY won Best Station for the first time in ten years, after being nominated for the first time in eight years.


We like to think of ourselves as the ''everything'' team, because while we're limited to poking anything that involves computers, we actually do an incredible amount of stuff:
== Award History ==


=== Website ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2020 SRAs|2020]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Student Radio Chart Show
| URY
| '''URY (Gold)''', Leeds Student Radio (Silver), Surge Radio (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement 
| WebStudio
| '''URY: WebStudio (Gold)''', URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver), URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement 
| Dearie-Me and Silencio
| URY: WebStudio (Gold), '''URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver)''', URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
|-
| Best Journalistic Programming
| Candidate Interview Night
| URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), '''URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver)''', RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
|-
| Best Journalistic Programming
| URY Newshour
| URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver), RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Show/Presenter
| Numi Now
| URN: The Official Pre-Ocean Show (Gold), Insanity Radio: The D-Whyte Show (Silver), Spark: Drive Time with Emma Millen (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Marks Polakovs
| URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), '''URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver)''', RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Alice Milburn
| URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
|-
| Best Music Show/Presenter
| Alex and Numi
| Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), '''URY: Alex and Numi (Silver)''', Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
|-
| Best Music Show/Presenter
| Liam Daly
| Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), URY: Alex and Numi (Silver), Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
|-
| Best Student Radio Station
| URY
| '''URY (Gold)''', Leeds Student Radio (Silver), URN (Bronze)
|-
|}


We look after the URY website, revamp or replace it when it gets old (about twice a year), and make sure that other teams are able to keep it full of content.
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2019 SRAs|2019]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Student Radio Chart Show
| URY
| '''URY (Gold)''', Fly FM (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement 
| Building homebrew studio infrastructure
| RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), '''URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver)''', Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement 
| Customisable LEDs
| RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement 
| The Big Campus Sound Project
| RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Programme
| The Joel Mitchell Show
| Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), '''URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver)''', Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Programme
| URY with Hannah
| Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Programme
| The Big URY Show
| Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Joseph Morrall
| '''URY: Joseph Morrall (Gold)''', Surge Radio: Elliot Morris (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Will Hall (Bronze)
|-
| Best Female
| Hannah Sackville-Bryant
| '''URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold)''', Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
|-
| Best Female
| Numi Gildert
| URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold), Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
|-
|}


The website is written in Pyramid, which is a '''Python''' web framework.  Coincidentally, computer science students at time of writing now learn Python as an introductory programming language.  We also have some Web systems written in '''PHP''' and '''Ruby'''.
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2018 SRAs|2018]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Technical Achievement 
| URspy
| '''URY: URspy (Gold)''', Insanity Radio: Insanity Goes Visual: Project Falcon (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: LSR’s best technical achievement entry (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Programme
| URY:PM - Roku Radio
| URN: The Specials (Gold), Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Campaign Relief (Bronze)
|-
| Best Multiplatform
| URspy
| '''URY: URSpy (Gold)''', URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
|-
| Best Multiplatform
| URY Music
| URY: URSpy (Gold), URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
|-
| Best Station Branding
| URY
| RAW1251am (Gold), Smoke Radio (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Alex West
| URB: Mitch Thorngate (Gold), Xpress Radio: Sam McGregor (Silver), KCL Radio: Heidi Hamilton (Bronze)
|-
| Best Female
| Hannah Sackville-Bryant
| URN: Nikki Osborne (Gold), Smoke Radio: Sofia Loporcaro (Silver), URN: Ella W (Bronze)
|-
| Best Male
| Joel Mitchell
| RAW1251am: Adam English (Gold), '''URY: Joel Mitchell (Silver)''', Livewire: Harry Benjamin (Bronze)
|-
| Kevin Greening Award
| N/A
| Stuart Russell (Individual): Poetical (Gold), '''URY: URSpy (Silver)''', URN: The Lightning Draft (Bronze)
|-
|}


Our website runs on the '''Nginx''' web server, with some of our backend systems using bits of '''Apache'''.
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2017 SRAs|2017]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Technical Achievement 
| URY Visualisation
| Insanity Radio: Nerve and the New Music Library (Gold), URB:  Radio Catchup (Silver), '''URY: URY Visualisation (Bronze)'''
|-
| Best Entertainment Programme
| URY:PM - with K-Spence
| '''URY: URY:PM - with K-Spence (Gold)''', Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Spoil the Ballot (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Will Batchelor
| '''URY: Will Batchelor (Gold)''', URY: Matt Stratford (Silver), Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Matt Stratford
| URY: Will Batchelor (Gold), '''URY: Matt Stratford (Silver)''', Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
|-
| Best Male
| Joshua Kerr
| Fly FM: Matt Lynch (Gold), Spark: Tom Glenwright (Silver), Radio Lab 97.1: Luke Gregory (Bronze)
|-
|}


=== Servers ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2016 SRAs|2016]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast
| 101 Hour Outside Broadcast
| Fly FM: Varsity Series (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: The Leadership Race (Silver), Xpression: 3 Campuses, 2 Counties, 1 Broadcast (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement
| Beat the Buzz
| '''URY: Beat the Buzz (Gold)''', Dragon Radio: Dragon Site Redesign (Silver), URN: The URN App (Bronze)
|-
| Best Speech Programming
| After The Tone
| URN: The Nineteen Percent (Gold), Spark Sunderland: Somewhere On A Blue Horizon (Silver), CSRfm: Chance Encounter (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Programme
| URY:PM - with K-Spence
| Surge: The Lowdown with Tom Cross (Gold), URN: The Rustlers (Silver), Livewire: The Tom v Tom Show (Bronze)
|-
| Best Multiplatform Initiative
| URY Music
| Leeds Student Radio: Spice UK (Gold), Smoke Radio: National Student Pride 2016 (Silver), URN: Varsity 2016 (Bronze)
|-
| Best Station Branding
| URY
| Fly FM (Gold), URN (Silver), '''URY (Bronze)'''
|-
| Best Female
| Kat Spencer
| Fly FM: Jen Thomas (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: Jaguar Bingham (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Kerry Maule (Bronze)
|-
| Kevin Greening Award
| N/A
| Leeds Student Radio: Yeezy Taught Me (Gold), East London Radio: Andrew Hodges (Silver), '''URY: Biscuit News (Bronze)'''
|-
|}


We run our own physical servers, which involves a lot of nipping into our server shed to turn things off and on, swap cables around and shout at power supplies.  If you like pulling things out of racks, staring at them, sticking RAM in them and putting them back in racks, then we offer one of the finest physical server admin experiences available to York students.
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2015 SRAs|2015]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast
| Elections Results Night
| Xpress Radio: The Welsh Varsity 2015 (Gold), '''URY: Elections Results Night (Silver)''', Shock Radio: Three Peaks Challenge (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement
| URY: Roses mini OB Kits
| University Radio Bath: Visualisation Rebuild and URB Digital (Gold), '''URY: Roses mini OB Kits (Silver)''', URN: OB1 – Universal Outside Broadcaster (Bronze)
|-
| Best Sport Programming
| URY Sports Hour
| URN: URN Sport (Gold), URN: Varsity Basketball 2015 (Silver), Xpression FM: Boxing Varsity ’14 (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Programme
| Harry Whittaker Show
| '''URY: Harry Whittaker Show (Gold)''', Forge Radio: Ben Bason (Silver), Shock Radio: The Paul Jones Show (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Rebecca Saw
| '''URY: Rebecca Saw (Gold)''', Leeds Student Radio: Louisa Fox (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Bethany Bartley-Jeacock (Bronze)
|-
| Best Male Presenter
| Harry Whittaker
| Leeds Student Radio: Sammy Jones (Gold), Fly FM: James Lewer (Silver), '''URY: Harry Whittaker (Bronze)'''
|-
|}


Of course, it isn't all about the hardware.  We also do a lot of system administration on the software side, making sure that all the processes that keep URY running stay up and don't tie themselves in knots.  We run '''FreeBSD''' and '''Debian GNU/Linux''', with a '''Windows Server''' domain controller for the desktop systems.
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2014 SRAs|2014]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Journalistic Programming
| River Safety: York’s Rising Problem
| SCRATCH RADIO (Gold), '''URY: River Safety: York’s Rising Problem (Silver)''', URN (Bronze)
|-
|}


=== Desktops ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2013 SRAs|2013]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Technical Achievement
| Talkback
| URYB: 1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), URY: Show Planner (Silver), Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
|-
| Best Technical Achievement
| [[Show Planner]]
| 1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), '''URY: Show Planner (Silver)''', Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
|-
| Best Specialist Music Programming
| Bos Tones
| Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
|-
| Best Specialist Music Programming
| Ellie Wright's World Music
| Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
|-
| Best Entertainment Show
| The Harry Whittaker Show
| The Morning Show with Giles Gear (Gold), Wake and Bake with Laurence and Gareth (Silver), '''The Harry Whittaker Show - ((URY)) (Bronze)'''
|-
| Best Male
| Harry Whittaker
| Pure FM: Glen Scott (Gold), Radio LaB: Danny Fullbrook (Silver), Spark FM: Jonny Chambers (Bronze)
|-
| Best Newcomer
| Harry Whittaker
| Ben Sheppard (Gold), '''Harry Whittaker - ((URY)) (Silver)''', Dom Stirling (Bronze)
|-
| Best Speech Programming
| [[The New World Order: Part 2: 1651]]
| '''URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold)''', URY: Trimble (Silver), A Seaside Town (Bronze)
|-
| Best Speech Programming
| [[Trimble]]
| URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold), '''URY: Trimble (Silver)''', A Seaside Town (Bronze)
|-
|}


Each studio has a few computers, typically running '''Windows''', that are used by presenters for playing out sound, connecting to the Internet, and using our Studio Information Service.  These have to be maintained, of course, and it's us that rise to the challenge.
{| class="wikitable"
|+[[2012 SRAs|2012]]
|-
! Category
! Nominations
! Winner
|-
| Best Student Radio Station
| [http://www.studentradioawards.co.uk/content/Awards/2012/Winners/pdf_w3s1i1.pdf URY]
| URN (Gold), '''URY (Silver)''', 107 Spark FM (Bronze)
|-
| Best Specialist Music Programming
| Coco Electro
| ???: Dance Revolution (Gold), LSRFM: Mim Shaikh Presents The Shaikh World Show (Silver), '''URY: Coco Electro (Bronze)'''
|}


 
[[Category: Awards]] [[Category: History]]
=== Software ===
 
Compteam develop and maintain most of our software in-house, a fact that we are very proud of - know of any other society at the university that can say that? Know of any other student radio station that can say that? We don't. We've listed some of our things below, and linked to our ''Ceedox'' wiki which keeps all our technical documentation and secrets. You have to have a URY account to see those pages, I'm afraid, but York students can get one instantly by going to [https://ury.org.uk/getinvolved].
 
==== LoggerNG ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:loggerng Ceedox Documentation]
 
LoggerNG is our new-for-2013 output logging system. Our Ofcom licence means we have to have a log of 42 days of output at all times - if we aren't recording, we aren't broadcasting. The old logger system runs on some vintage desktop hardware from around 2001, so we needed something new.
 
LoggerNG includes two dedicated servers, a ''sox''-based recording program, 65 days of FLAC files and a HTML5 download interface on a third server. It's a big thing, and needs to work 100% of the time, all the time (well, term time).
 
==== Broadcasting and Presenting Suite (BAPS) ====
This is another one of our older systems. Written around 2003 in Managed C++, at the time it was seen as everything a presenter would need to do a show - on a computer. Of course, the original designers did not plan for a decade in the future, where social media, HTML5 and APIs are the way of the future, so it is now starting to seem somewhat dated.
 
The server side of the system manages the ability to play out different audio to different sound cards. It lacks lots of functionality, but is in fact very very good at what it does.
 
Our 2013/15 roadmap is all about keeping this stable background service (the BAPS server), but refresh the way users can interact with it, using the Radio API Daemon (RAPID) and extending the existing capabilities of our Show Planner (HTML5/JS).
 
==== If No Show, I Do an Instantly Organised, Unending Show - Totally Outrageous Non-stop Entertainment System (insidious Tones (iTones)) ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:insidioustones Ceedox Documentation]
 
Publically known as URY's Campus Jukebox, this is the system that plays songs when there's not a presenter on air. It's another of our mission critical things as we can't broadcast silence, but it also has lots of neat tricks in the form of a web interface to define a range of pre-defined playlist schedules and some automated playlist generation. Its scheduler is part of the MyRadio framework and integrates with the telnet interface of a little-known thing called Liquidsoap (a Savonet project). Trust us when we say it is very powerful and a lot of fun to play with.
 
==== MyRadio ====
This magical little thing is designed to be the glue for URY's services. Written in PHP, Twig and HTML5, this is essentially our intranet. Here's some of the things it pulls together:
 
* Presenter Training
* Show Scheduling
* URYPlayer Podcasts
* Show Resources (beds, jingles etc.)
* Show Planning
* In-Studio Information (live messages, news & stats)
* Chart & Playlists
* Central Music Library
* iTones
* Mailing Lists
* Webcams (and archives)
* Show Monitoring
* Statistics
 
All of this is also exposed using an API [https://ury.org.uk/api/] which provides us with easy control and remote access to all of the above as well as Users, Committees, Images, Tracklists and our Studio Selector.
 
This API is then in turn used by a range of our resources, including our RadioPlayer page, E-mail service, MixCloud uploader, Presenter website pages, IRC bot and more. Put simply, this bundle of PHP holds our station together.
 
Oh, did I mention we're trying to generalise it so other stations can learn what we do under the hood? It's open sourced at [https://github.com/UniversityRadioYork/MyRadio]!
 
==== Show Planner ====
[https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/computing:software:in-house:myury:nipsweb Ceedox Documentation]
 
Built upon the MyRadio framework, Show Planner is a HTML5 version of the in-studio BAPS client, but in a web browser. It allows anyone to plan shows, upload files and do lots of other neat stuff. If you like lots of pretty client side stuff, with a multi-user editable backend, then you'll love this.
 
During initial development, it went through several names - BAPSWeb 2, BAPS Planner and NIPSWeb, before eventually being named the more simple Show Planner. It replaced BAPSWeb, a single several-thousand line PHP file and a Comic-Sans interface which were developed around the same time as BAPS itself.
 
Version 1 was featured as part of our Less Black and More  Graphics entry in the Student Radio Awards 2012, but was replaced by the MyRadio integrated version over the next year.
 
Version 2 of this little gizmo won us a Silver Best Technical Achievement at the Student Radio Awards 2013.
 
Version 3 is current near-completion, the client-side complete rewritten as part of MyRadio's move to Bootstrap.
 
=== Fun ===
 
Though Compteam have the burden of a lot of responsibility for critical systems most of the time, really most of us are here to '''have fun'''.
 
Being in and around a student radio station gives people who want to play around with new ideas in an existing context a real jumpstart, and as a consequence whenever we're not fixing stuff we're often in URY working on making new things.  Here are a few examples:
 
* BAPS, URY's very own custom playout system (Matt Fortune, 20??/??)
* The studio clock system (Lloyd Wallis, 2011/12)
 
== Prospective members ==
 
Computing Team is always looking for new members, so if you're interested by what we do, send us an email (see the infobox on the right hand side)!
 
URY membership is £7 if you make a regular habit of poking our systems, but anyone is free to come and have a go. The team often has meetings at on Wednesdays in VBar around 7pm.
 
=== What we use ===
 
As Computing Team's goals involve education and development just as much as professionalism and dependability, there is no requirement for prior knowledge.  That being said, some knowledge of any of the following would be a great start:
 
* Administration of Unix-style systems, especially Debian GNU/Linux and FreeBSD
* Administration of Windows client systems, Active Directory and Windows Server
* Python 2, especially Django
* SQL, especially PostgreSQL
* PHP
* Network administration (hardware and software)
* Continuous integration - Jenkins/Hudson, Travis
* Shell scripting
* Systems programming - C, Go, etc.
 
It'd be great if you're:
* Ready to learn and develop "on the job"
* Able to work both independently and as a team member
* Willing to investigate the way things are done and experiment with new ideas
* Willing to ask questions in order to get a better understanding
* Able to balance course and URY work, and not overly prioritise the latter over the former
 
== History ==
 
* Computing Team was formed by separation from the [[Technical]] Team as URY's dependency on computer systems increased during the late 90s and early 2000s.
* URY's longest ever serving servers (heh) were the [[First Generation Computing Loggers]], in production for 14 years and with 10 years of HDD runtime hours each.
 
== Members (past and present) ==
 
=== Heads of Teams ===
* ''2014-present'': [[Anthony Williams]]
* ''2011-2014'': [[Matt Windsor]]
* ''2010-2011'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* ''2009-2010'': [[Alex Williams]]
* ''2008-2009'': [[Gareth Andrew Lloyd]]
* (More to be inserted here)
 
=== Other Members ===
 
In a rough reverse chronological order.
 
* [[Qumarth Jash]]
* [[Charles Pigott]]
* [[Sam Willcocks]]
* [[Adam Taylor]]
* [[Andrei-Costin Zisu]]
* [[Vivan Jayant]] (Webmaster, 2012)
* [[Sam Gamble]] (2011-12)
* [[Anthony Williams]]
* [[Danny Bell]]
* [[Donal Cahill]]
* [[Lloyd Wallis]] (2011-2014, still an active alumnus)
* [[Andy Durant]] (as a "computerneer")
* (Expand this list!)
 
== Big Updates ==
During breaks between terms, CompTeam will often update or upgrade a large number of services. We like to post a list of changes toward the end of the break.
 
* [[Computing Updates: Christmas 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Summer 2013]]
* [[Computing Updates: Easter 2013]]

Latest revision as of 13:07, 8 November 2020

The Student Radio Awards is an annual event hosted by the Student Radio Association. Every year, URY enters itself for several different awards, sometimes winning.

Trivia

  • URY's very own Coco Cole was one of the Voices of the Awards in 2012. A small amount of gratification was to be had when she eventually had to read out URY's Best Technical Achievement submission name.
  • In 2013, URY was joint first in Most Nominations with Fly FM, and Most Awarded with Fly FM and URN.
  • Harry Whittaker was the first person in living Student Radio Association history that has received 3 nominations in a single year.
  • In 2018, the team behind URYspy won three SRAs and were invited to speak at that year's RadioTechCon
  • In 2020, URY received its highest number of nominations recorded on this wiki, and the highest number of wins.
  • In 2020, URY won Best Station for the first time in ten years, after being nominated for the first time in eight years.

Award History

2020
Category Nominations Winner
Best Student Radio Chart Show URY URY (Gold), Leeds Student Radio (Silver), Surge Radio (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement WebStudio URY: WebStudio (Gold), URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver), URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement Dearie-Me and Silencio URY: WebStudio (Gold), URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver), URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
Best Journalistic Programming Candidate Interview Night URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver), RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
Best Journalistic Programming URY Newshour URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver), RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Show/Presenter Numi Now URN: The Official Pre-Ocean Show (Gold), Insanity Radio: The D-Whyte Show (Silver), Spark: Drive Time with Emma Millen (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Marks Polakovs URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Alice Milburn URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
Best Music Show/Presenter Alex and Numi Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), URY: Alex and Numi (Silver), Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
Best Music Show/Presenter Liam Daly Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), URY: Alex and Numi (Silver), Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
Best Student Radio Station URY URY (Gold), Leeds Student Radio (Silver), URN (Bronze)
2019
Category Nominations Winner
Best Student Radio Chart Show URY URY (Gold), Fly FM (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement Building homebrew studio infrastructure RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement Customisable LEDs RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement The Big Campus Sound Project RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Programme The Joel Mitchell Show Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Programme URY with Hannah Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Programme The Big URY Show Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Joseph Morrall URY: Joseph Morrall (Gold), Surge Radio: Elliot Morris (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Will Hall (Bronze)
Best Female Hannah Sackville-Bryant URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold), Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
Best Female Numi Gildert URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold), Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
2018
Category Nominations Winner
Best Technical Achievement URspy URY: URspy (Gold), Insanity Radio: Insanity Goes Visual: Project Falcon (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: LSR’s best technical achievement entry (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Programme URY:PM - Roku Radio URN: The Specials (Gold), Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Campaign Relief (Bronze)
Best Multiplatform URspy URY: URSpy (Gold), URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
Best Multiplatform URY Music URY: URSpy (Gold), URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
Best Station Branding URY RAW1251am (Gold), Smoke Radio (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Alex West URB: Mitch Thorngate (Gold), Xpress Radio: Sam McGregor (Silver), KCL Radio: Heidi Hamilton (Bronze)
Best Female Hannah Sackville-Bryant URN: Nikki Osborne (Gold), Smoke Radio: Sofia Loporcaro (Silver), URN: Ella W (Bronze)
Best Male Joel Mitchell RAW1251am: Adam English (Gold), URY: Joel Mitchell (Silver), Livewire: Harry Benjamin (Bronze)
Kevin Greening Award N/A Stuart Russell (Individual): Poetical (Gold), URY: URSpy (Silver), URN: The Lightning Draft (Bronze)
2017
Category Nominations Winner
Best Technical Achievement URY Visualisation Insanity Radio: Nerve and the New Music Library (Gold), URB: Radio Catchup (Silver), URY: URY Visualisation (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Programme URY:PM - with K-Spence URY: URY:PM - with K-Spence (Gold), Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Spoil the Ballot (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Will Batchelor URY: Will Batchelor (Gold), URY: Matt Stratford (Silver), Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Matt Stratford URY: Will Batchelor (Gold), URY: Matt Stratford (Silver), Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
Best Male Joshua Kerr Fly FM: Matt Lynch (Gold), Spark: Tom Glenwright (Silver), Radio Lab 97.1: Luke Gregory (Bronze)
2016
Category Nominations Winner
Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast 101 Hour Outside Broadcast Fly FM: Varsity Series (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: The Leadership Race (Silver), Xpression: 3 Campuses, 2 Counties, 1 Broadcast (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement Beat the Buzz URY: Beat the Buzz (Gold), Dragon Radio: Dragon Site Redesign (Silver), URN: The URN App (Bronze)
Best Speech Programming After The Tone URN: The Nineteen Percent (Gold), Spark Sunderland: Somewhere On A Blue Horizon (Silver), CSRfm: Chance Encounter (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Programme URY:PM - with K-Spence Surge: The Lowdown with Tom Cross (Gold), URN: The Rustlers (Silver), Livewire: The Tom v Tom Show (Bronze)
Best Multiplatform Initiative URY Music Leeds Student Radio: Spice UK (Gold), Smoke Radio: National Student Pride 2016 (Silver), URN: Varsity 2016 (Bronze)
Best Station Branding URY Fly FM (Gold), URN (Silver), URY (Bronze)
Best Female Kat Spencer Fly FM: Jen Thomas (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: Jaguar Bingham (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Kerry Maule (Bronze)
Kevin Greening Award N/A Leeds Student Radio: Yeezy Taught Me (Gold), East London Radio: Andrew Hodges (Silver), URY: Biscuit News (Bronze)
2015
Category Nominations Winner
Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast Elections Results Night Xpress Radio: The Welsh Varsity 2015 (Gold), URY: Elections Results Night (Silver), Shock Radio: Three Peaks Challenge (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement URY: Roses mini OB Kits University Radio Bath: Visualisation Rebuild and URB Digital (Gold), URY: Roses mini OB Kits (Silver), URN: OB1 – Universal Outside Broadcaster (Bronze)
Best Sport Programming URY Sports Hour URN: URN Sport (Gold), URN: Varsity Basketball 2015 (Silver), Xpression FM: Boxing Varsity ’14 (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Programme Harry Whittaker Show URY: Harry Whittaker Show (Gold), Forge Radio: Ben Bason (Silver), Shock Radio: The Paul Jones Show (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Rebecca Saw URY: Rebecca Saw (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: Louisa Fox (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Bethany Bartley-Jeacock (Bronze)
Best Male Presenter Harry Whittaker Leeds Student Radio: Sammy Jones (Gold), Fly FM: James Lewer (Silver), URY: Harry Whittaker (Bronze)
2014
Category Nominations Winner
Best Journalistic Programming River Safety: York’s Rising Problem SCRATCH RADIO (Gold), URY: River Safety: York’s Rising Problem (Silver), URN (Bronze)
2013
Category Nominations Winner
Best Technical Achievement Talkback URYB: 1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), URY: Show Planner (Silver), Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement Show Planner 1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), URY: Show Planner (Silver), Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
Best Specialist Music Programming Bos Tones Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
Best Specialist Music Programming Ellie Wright's World Music Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
Best Entertainment Show The Harry Whittaker Show The Morning Show with Giles Gear (Gold), Wake and Bake with Laurence and Gareth (Silver), The Harry Whittaker Show - ((URY)) (Bronze)
Best Male Harry Whittaker Pure FM: Glen Scott (Gold), Radio LaB: Danny Fullbrook (Silver), Spark FM: Jonny Chambers (Bronze)
Best Newcomer Harry Whittaker Ben Sheppard (Gold), Harry Whittaker - ((URY)) (Silver), Dom Stirling (Bronze)
Best Speech Programming The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold), URY: Trimble (Silver), A Seaside Town (Bronze)
Best Speech Programming Trimble URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold), URY: Trimble (Silver), A Seaside Town (Bronze)
2012
Category Nominations Winner
Best Student Radio Station URY URN (Gold), URY (Silver), 107 Spark FM (Bronze)
Best Specialist Music Programming Coco Electro ???: Dance Revolution (Gold), LSRFM: Mim Shaikh Presents The Shaikh World Show (Silver), URY: Coco Electro (Bronze)
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