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| − | URY is not a 24-hour radio station (usually), so it has a '''sustainer''' whose job is to play something during downtime to make sure URY never broadcasts dead air.
| + | Here is a monument to URY's changing '''technology'''. |
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| − | This page is a tribute to the various sustainer systems URY has had over the years.
| + | * [[Broadcasting History]] |
| − | | + | * [[Sustainer]] (also known as '''URY Jukebox''') |
| − | == Sustainer Technology Through The Ages ==
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| − | === 19??-19?? Other radio stations ===
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| − | Before URY had its own sustainer, it broadcast a feed from other radio stations. The [[80s Technical Manual]] makes reference to Viking FM being the radio station in this role in 1988.
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| − | It is currently not known to this wiki what URY did back in its foundation years (BBC feed? Dead air? Caroline!?), as commercial independent radio wasn't exactly around back then.
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| − | === 19??-19?? Student Broadcast Network ===
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| − | [http://web.archive.org/web/19991116112903/http://ury.york.ac.uk/schedule/t-sbn.htm Back in the 90s] the sustainer service came from the ''Student Broadcast Network'' who broadcast news, music and programming on a national basis for student radio: | |
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| − | While we're not broadcasting our own programmes, we relay the Student Broadcast Network. Broadcasting live via satellite, SBN is a service exclusively for student radio stations in the UK. During the day it provides stations with a non-stop mix of student orientated music with news on the hour every hour. Throughout the night there's a line-up of student programmes, combining live shows from their studios in London and programmes provided by student radio stations around the country.
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| − | URY is not a 24-hour radio station (usually), so it has a '''sustainer''' whose job is to play something during downtime to make sure URY never broadcasts dead air.
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| − | This page is a tribute to the various sustainer systems URY has had over the years.
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| − | == Sustainer Technology Through The Ages ==
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| − | === 19??-19?? Other radio stations ===
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| − | Before URY had its own sustainer, it broadcast a feed from other radio stations. The [[80s Technical Manual]] makes reference to Viking FM being the radio station in this role in 1988.
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| − | It is currently not known to this wiki what URY did back in its foundation years (BBC feed? Dead air? Caroline!?), as commercial independent radio wasn't exactly around back then.
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| − | The earliest schedules available from archives of the URY website shed no light on this, sadly.
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| − | === 19??-1998 Student Radio Network ===
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| − | Reference is made between Summer 1997 and Summer 1998 of URY relying on the Student Radio Network for out-of-hours broadcasting. The wiki team currently don't know much about the SRN, but it was likely similar to the Student Broadcasting Network URY later used.
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| − | === 1998-19?? Student Broadcast Network ===
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| − | [http://web.archive.org/web/19991116112903/http://ury.york.ac.uk/schedule/t-sbn.htm Back in the 90s] the sustainer service came from the ''Student Broadcast Network'' who broadcast news, music and programming on a national basis for student radio.
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| − | While we're not broadcasting our own programmes, we relay the Student Broadcast Network. Broadcasting live via satellite, SBN is a service exclusively for student radio stations in the UK. During the day it provides stations with a non-stop mix of student orientated music with news on the hour every hour. Throughout the night there's a line-up of student programmes, combining live shows from their studios in London and programmes provided by student radio stations around the country.
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| − | </blockquote>
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| − | The SBN folded in 2004.
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| − | === ????-???? OWEN ===
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| − | ''More information needed.''
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| − | This may be the source of the ''Overnight Owen'' slots that appear in the schedule at around 2005.
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| − | === 2012-present INSIDIOUS TONES ===
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| − | The current jukebox system is provided by a LiquidSoap system affectionately named "If No Show, I Do An Instantly Organised Unending Show: Totally Outrageous Nonstop Entertainment System", or ''INSIDIOUS TONES'' for short (also known as just ''iTones'').
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| − | == Branding ==
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| − | Though currently known as the URY Jukebox, the sustainer service previously went by other names:
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| − | * Non-Stop Music
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| − | * URY Music Jukebox
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| − | * Overnight Owen
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