Timeline
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This is the general URY timeline, arranged by decade.
60s
- 1960: The UK's first student radio station is founded as Crush Radio (but it doesn't legally broadcast for a while).
- 1967: URY is founded as the UK's first legal independent broadcasting radio station, as Radio York under a test licence from the BBC.
- 1969: Radio York is refounded as University Radio York and opened with a guest broadcast by John Peel.
70s
80s
90s
00s
- 2005: URY wins the SRA Award for Best Student Station.
10s
- 2011: URY joins the UK Radioplayer service as one of the first stations to do so.
- 2012: URY moves to a larger webcaster licence. At the same time, Tom Whitehouse ends his long tenure as Honorary President and is replaced.