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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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'''Less black and more graphics''' is a [[Computing]] Team [[in-joke]], originating from the [[SRAs]] 2012.
 
  
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== Origin ==
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== Trivia ==
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* URY regularly loses out to Best Station because [[URN]] claim to be better. The majority of the committee justify this with Nottingham being significantly larger, URN having a lot more money, and a part time staff member to run it.
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* 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.
  
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It comes from the rather terse feedback from Computing Team's 2012 Best Technical Achievement entry, [[Presenters First: A Unified Computing Experience]], which is confusingly itself an in-joke.  Quoted for posterity:
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== Award History ==
  
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Subject: The Student Radio Association - Awards Feedback (URY (Best Technical Achievement) - Presenters First: A Unified Computing Experience)<br />
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Date: 2012-12-11 15:02<br />
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From: Student Radio Awards Judges <awards@studentradio.org.uk><br />
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! Nominations
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To: matt.windsor@ury.org.uk<br />
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! Winner
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THE STUDENT RADIO ASSOCIATION - AWARDS FEEDBACK (URY (BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT) - PRESENTERS FIRST: A UNIFIED COMPUTING EXPERIENCE)<br />
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| Best Technical Achievement (Talkback)
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| 1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), URY: Show Planner (Silver), Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
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Hi [[Matt Windsor]],<br />
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| [[Best Technical Achievement (Show Planner)]]
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Firstly, we're sorry that this feedback process has taken slightly longer than we would originally had hoped.<br />
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| 1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), '''URY: Show Planner (Silver)''', Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
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Below you will find the feedback for 'PRESENTERS FIRST: A UNIFIED COMPUTING EXPERIENCE' that you entered into the 'BEST TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT' category for the Student Radio Awards 2012. Depending on the  category, you may have more than one piece of feedback from different judges. To protect the judges anonymity, their names are not included. If you entered this category on behalf of someone else, please forward this on to the participants!<br />
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| Best Specialist Music Programming (Bos Tones)
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| Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
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* A well thought through [[Show Planner|playout system and broadcast work flow manager]]
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* Excellent system, nice use of HTML5.
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| Best Specialist Music Programming (Ellie Wright's World Music)
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* A lot of time and effort and clearly gone in to creating this system and it does quite a few clever things. However, it slightly feels as though the system is trying to be all things to all people. Future development should perhaps focus on making the user interface more friendly ('''less black, more graphics''', standard symbolic buttons etc).
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| Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
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If you would like more information please reply to this email, where someone will get back to you.<br />
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| Best Entertainment Show (The Harry Whittaker Show)
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| The Morning Show with Giles Gear (Gold), Wake and Bake with Laurence and Gareth (Silver), '''The Harry Whittaker Show - ((URY)) (Bronze)'''
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Many Thanks - The Student Radio Association Ltd<br />
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The Student Radio Association Ltd, a company Registered in England and Wales as a Company Limited by Guarantee, No. 06419104. VAT Registration No. 919 2489 90<br />
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| Best Male (Harry Whittaker)
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Registered Office: c/o The Radio Academy, 3rd Floor, 55 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1BS
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| Pure FM: Glen Scott (Gold), Radio LaB: Danny Fullbrook (Silver), Spark FM: Jonny Chambers (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer (Harry Whittaker)
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| Ben Sheppard (Gold), '''Harry Whittaker - ((URY)) (Silver)''', Dom Stirling (Bronze)
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| [[Best Speech Programming (The New World Order: Part 2: 1651)]]
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| '''URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold)''', URY: Trimble (Silver), A Seaside Town (Bronze)
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| [[Best Speech Programming (Trimble)]]
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| URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold), '''URY: Trimble (Silver)''', A Seaside Town (Bronze)
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== Controversy ==
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! Nominations
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| [http://www.studentradioawards.co.uk/content/Awards/2012/Winners/pdf_w3s1i1.pdf Best Station]
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| URN (Gold), '''URY (Silver)''', 107 Spark FM (Bronze)
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| Best Specialist Music Programming
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| ???: Dance Revolution (Gold), LSRFM: Mim Shaikh Presents The Shaikh World Show (Silver), '''URY: Coco Electro (Bronze)'''
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Much was made of the SRA judges' decree that URY's computing services would be improved by less black and more graphics.  It was pointed out that less black would reduce contrast (thus making it harder to read things) and more graphics would clutter the user interfaces up (thus making it harder to read things).
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[[Category: Awards]]
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The other potential issue with this observation was that URY's branding at the time was, in fact, predominantly black. This email therefore specified that we would've won the award if we changed our corporate branding - something which is of course directly under the remit of "Best Technical Achievement".
 
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A retort was sent, but not replied to.  Possibly.
 

Revision as of 21:36, 29 December 2013

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 regularly loses out to Best Station because URN claim to be better. The majority of the committee justify this with Nottingham being significantly larger, URN having a lot more money, and a part time staff member to run it.
  • 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.

Award History

2013
Nominations Winner
Best Technical Achievement (Talkback) 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
Nominations Winner
Best Station URN (Gold), URY (Silver), 107 Spark FM (Bronze)
Best Specialist Music Programming ???: Dance Revolution (Gold), LSRFM: Mim Shaikh Presents The Shaikh World Show (Silver), URY: Coco Electro (Bronze)
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