Student Radio Awards

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

2024

Category	Nominations	Winner
Kevin Greening Award for Creativity	Carols at the Minster in 5.1 Surround Sound	URY: Carols at the Minster in 5.1 Surround Sound (Gold), Shock Radio: Radio-ing with Dan Walters (Silver), Spark: Rainbow R!ot (Bronze)
Best Event Programming	The LSR X URY Presenter Hunt	LSR and URY: The LSR X URY Presenter Hunt (Gold), Nerve Radio: Nerve Radio FM Week: Dylan's Takeover (Silver), URY: Carols at the Minster in 5.1 Surround Sound (Bronze)
Best Student Radio Station	URY	LSR 9Gold), URY (Silver), Shock Radio (Bronze)
Best Chart Show Programming	Jess and Joe's Chart Show	Shock Radio: What The **** is a Chart Show, with Matt and Issy (Gold), URY: Jess and Joe's Chart Show (Silver), Livewire 1350 (Bronze)
Best Event Programming	Carols at the Minster in 5.1 Surround Sound	LSR and URY: The LSR X URY Presenter Hunt (Gold), Nerve Radio: Nerve Radio FM Week: Dylan's Takeover (Silver), URY: Carols at the Minster in 5.1 Surround Sound (Bronze)
Best Technical Achievement	Carols at the Minster in 5.1 Surround Sound	Cam FM: Opening of the Jesus and ARU Studios (Gold), Fuse FM: Studio Refit (Silver), URY: Carols at the Minster in 5.1 Surround Sound (Bronze)
Best News and Journalistic Programming	Election Night	RAW 1251AM: Insight (Gold), Fly Live: Friday Morning with Ben Mellor (Silver), URY: Election Night (Bronze)
The Joe Lyons Award for Best Producer	Fion Cudmore	SRA South Region: Joshua Dodd (Gold), Spark: Rollie Joe Carney 9Silver), URY: Fion Cudmore (Bronze)
Best Presenter	Tom Foreman	Shock Radio: Matt Hallsworth (Gold), Cam FM: Daisy Cox (Silver), URY: Tom Foreman (Bronze) 2023 Category Nominations Winner Best Chart Show Programming URY URY: URY's Entry (Gold), S 2022 Category Nominations Winner Best Chart Show Programming URY URY: URY's Student Radio Chart Show (Gold), Radio LaB 97.1FM: Radio LaB's SRA Chart Show (Silver), LSR: The LSR Christmas Special Chart (Bronze) Best Sport Programming Roses 2022 XpressionFM: Grecian Glory - Exeter City's Promotion (Gold), URN: Women in Sport Show (Silver), URY: Roses 2022 (Bronze) Best Technical Achievement URY FM Purple Radio (Gold), Queen's Radio: Plane Ticket - Radio Play (Silver), URY: URY FM (Bronze) 2021 Category Nominations Winner Best Chart Show Programming URY URY: URY's Student Radio Chart Show (Gold), Surf Radio: The Surf Radio Chart Show (Silver), Xpress Radio (Bronze) Best Sport Programming Roses Unlocked URY: Roses Unlocked (Gold), Purple: Krav Maga 101 (Silver), URN: The Thursday Sports Show (Bronze) Best Multiplatform Initiative Candidate Interview Night Fly: Trent Consent (Gold), Xpression: Love is Blind (Silver), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Bronze) Best Station Branding URY Marketing Team Purple Radio (Gold), Xpression: XpressionFM 2020-2021 (Silver), URY: URY Marketing Team (Bronze) Best Technical Achievement Candidate Interview Night LCR: LiveDisplay (Gold), Purple Radio: Josh Davies (Silver), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Bronze) 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)