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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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WebStudio is great and all, but doing a show all by your lonesome gets a bit samey. Perhaps you want some company on your show, someone to share the airwaves with.
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== Trivia ==
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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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* In 2013, URY was joint first in Most Nominations with Fly FM, and Most Awarded with Fly FM and URN.
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* Harry Whittaker was the first person in living Student Radio Association history that has received 3 nominations in a single year.
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* In 2018, the team behind URYspy won three SRAs and were invited to speak at that year's RadioTechCon
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* In 2020, URY received its highest number of nominations recorded on this wiki, and the highest number of wins.
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* In 2020, URY won Best Station for the first time in ten years, after being nominated for the first time in eight years.
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Sadly, at the time of writing there's no great solution for this. This page will attempt to summarise the current best practice for getting other people on your show.
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== Award History ==
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== Pre-Record Links ==
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2020 SRAs|2020]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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|-
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| Best Student Radio Chart Show
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| '''URY (Gold)''', Leeds Student Radio (Silver), Surge Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement  (WebStudio)
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| '''URY: WebStudio (Gold)''', URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver), URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement  (Dearie-Me and Silencio)
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| URY: WebStudio (Gold), '''URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver)''', URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
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| Best Journalistic Programming (Candidate Interview Night)
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| URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), '''URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver)''', RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
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| Best Journalistic Programming (URY Newshour)
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| URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver), RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Show/Presenter (Numi Now)
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| URN: The Official Pre-Ocean Show (Gold), Insanity Radio: The D-Whyte Show (Silver), Spark: Drive Time with Emma Millen (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer (Marks Polakovs)
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| URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), '''URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver)''', RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer (Alice Milburn)
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| URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
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| Best Music Show/Presenter (Alex and Numi)
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| Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), '''URY: Alex and Numi (Silver)''', Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
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| Best Music Show/Presenter (Liam Daly)
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| Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), URY: Alex and Numi (Silver), Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
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| Best Student Radio Station (URY)
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| '''URY (Gold)''', Leeds Student Radio (Silver), URN (Bronze)
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If you can't get your co-hosts' voices into WebStudio live, a good option is to pre-record your links. This involves you recording your chatting in advance, then uploading it into Show Planner, and then playing it out live in between songs in WebStudio.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2019 SRAs|2019]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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| Best Student Radio Chart Show
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| '''URY (Gold)''', Fly FM (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement  (Building homebrew studio infrastructure)
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| RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), '''URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver)''', Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement  (Customisable LEDs)
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| RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement  (The Big Campus Sound Project)
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| RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme (The Joel Mitchell Show)
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| Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), '''URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver)''', Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme (URY with Hannah)
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| Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme (The Big URY Show)
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| Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer (Joseph Morrall)
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| '''URY: Joseph Morrall (Gold)''', Surge Radio: Elliot Morris (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Will Hall (Bronze)
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| Best Female (Hannah Sackville-Bryant)
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| '''URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold)''', Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
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| Best Female (Numi Gildert)
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| URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold), Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
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The advantage of this is that it requires no special fiddling on the day of the show. It's just like any other WebStudio show, except that you play your link recordings instead of doing them live. This is certainly the lowest-tech approach.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2018 SRAs|2018]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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| Best Technical Achievement  (URspy)
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| '''URY: URspy (Gold)''', Insanity Radio: Insanity Goes Visual: Project Falcon (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: LSR’s best technical achievement entry (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme (URY:PM - Roku Radio)
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| URN: The Specials (Gold), Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Campaign Relief (Bronze)
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| Best Multiplatform (URspy)
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| '''URY: URSpy (Gold)''', URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Multiplatform (URY Music)
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| URY: URSpy (Gold), URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Station Branding
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| RAW1251am (Gold), Smoke Radio (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer (Alex West)
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| URB: Mitch Thorngate (Gold), Xpress Radio: Sam McGregor (Silver), KCL Radio: Heidi Hamilton (Bronze)
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| Best Female (Hannah Sackville-Bryant)
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| URN: Nikki Osborne (Gold), Smoke Radio: Sofia Loporcaro (Silver), URN: Ella W (Bronze)
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| Best Male (Joel Mitchell)
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| RAW1251am: Adam English (Gold), '''URY: Joel Mitchell (Silver)''', Livewire: Harry Benjamin (Bronze)
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|Kevin Greening Award
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|Stuart Russell (Individual): Poetical (Gold), '''URY: URSpy (Silver)''', URN: The Lightning Draft (Bronze)
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A related advantage is that you can try your links over and over again until they sound good, which may make your show sound slicker. (Though it must be noted that the perfect is the enemy of the good, and to not stress about it too much.)
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2017 SRAs|2017]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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|-
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| Best Technical Achievement  (URY Visualisation)
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| Insanity Radio: Nerve and the New Music Library (Gold), URB:  Radio Catchup (Silver), '''URY: URY Visualisation (Bronze)'''
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| Best Entertainment Programme (URY:PM - with K-Spence)
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| '''URY: URY:PM - with K-Spence (Gold)''', Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Spoil the Ballot (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer (Will Batchelor)
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| '''URY: Will Batchelor (Gold)''', URY: Matt Stratford (Silver), Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
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|-
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| Best Newcomer (Matt Stratford)
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| URY: Will Batchelor (Gold), '''URY: Matt Stratford (Silver)''', Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
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| Best Male (Joshua Kerr)
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| Fly FM: Matt Lynch (Gold), Spark: Tom Glenwright (Silver), Radio Lab 97.1: Luke Gregory (Bronze)
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The obvious problem with this approach is that you lose the immediacy of live radio, which is certainly undesirable. Also, sitting there pressing the "play" button over and over again can get a little boring.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2016 SRAs|2016]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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|-
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| Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast (101 Hour Outside Broadcast)
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| Fly FM: Varsity Series (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: The Leadership Race (Silver), Xpression: 3 Campuses, 2 Counties, 1 Broadcast (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement (Beat the Buzz)
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| '''URY: Beat the Buzz (Gold)''', Dragon Radio: Dragon Site Redesign (Silver), URN: The URN App (Bronze)
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| Best Speech Programming (After The Tone)
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| URN: The Nineteen Percent (Gold), Spark Sunderland: Somewhere On A Blue Horizon (Silver), CSRfm: Chance Encounter (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme (URY:PM - with K-Spence)
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| Surge: The Lowdown with Tom Cross (Gold), URN: The Rustlers (Silver), Livewire: The Tom v Tom Show (Bronze)
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| Best Multiplatform Initiative (URY Music)
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| Leeds Student Radio: Spice UK (Gold), Smoke Radio: National Student Pride 2016 (Silver), URN: Varsity 2016 (Bronze)
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| Best Station Branding
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| Fly FM (Gold), URN (Silver), '''URY (Bronze)'''
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| Best Female (Kat Spencer)
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| Fly FM: Jen Thomas (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: Jaguar Bingham (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Kerry Maule(Bronze)
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| Kevin Greening Award
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| Leeds Student Radio: Yeezy Taught Me (Gold), East London Radio: Andrew Hodges (Silver), '''URY: Biscuit News (Bronze)'''
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To use this approach, [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PwHvL9HU8eY5GqAvQgJGOEyZnmdGoc18CzFvP3alcWo/edit follow this guide]. (If you can't access the document, contact someone on the [https://ury.org.uk/teams/management/ Management Team] on Slack.)
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2015 SRAs|2015]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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| Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast (Elections Results Night)
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| Xpress Radio: The Welsh Varsity 2015 (Gold), '''URY: Elections Results Night (Silver)''', Shock Radio: Three Peaks Challenge (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement (URY: Roses mini OB Kits)
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| University Radio Bath: Visualisation Rebuild and URB Digital (Gold), '''URY: Roses mini OB Kits (Silver)''', URN: OB1 – Universal Outside Broadcaster (Bronze)
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| Best Sport Programming (URY Sports Hour)
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| URN: URN Sport (Gold), URN: Varsity Basketball 2015 (Silver), Xpression FM: Boxing Varsity ’14 (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme (Harry Whittaker Show)
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| '''URY: Harry Whittaker Show (Gold)''', Forge Radio: Ben Bason (Silver), Shock Radio: The Paul Jones Show (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer (Rebecca Saw)
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| '''URY: Rebecca Saw (Gold)''', Leeds Student Radio: Louisa Fox (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Bethany Bartley-Jeacock (Bronze)
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| Best Male Presenter (Harry Whittaker)
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| Leeds Student Radio: Sammy Jones (Gold), Fly FM: James Lewer (Silver), '''URY: Harry Whittaker (Bronze)'''
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== Pre-Record Entire Show ==
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2014 SRAs|2014]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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| Best Journalistic Programming (River Safety: York’s Rising Problem)
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| SCRATCH RADIO (Gold), '''URY: River Safety: York’s Rising Problem (Silver)''', URN (Bronze)
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|}
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You may be thinking, "if I'm pre-recording bits of my show, why not edit it all together in one go?" And indeed, this is possible. There are quite a few caveats though:
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{| class="wikitable"
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|+[[2013 SRAs|2013]]
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|-
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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|-
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| Best Technical Achievement (Talkback)
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| URYB: 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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| [[Best Technical Achievement (Show Planner)]]
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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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| 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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| Best Specialist Music Programming (Ellie Wright's World Music)
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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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| 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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| Best Male (Harry Whittaker)
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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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* This is very time-consuming.
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* You will need legal copies of all the music you want to play - you '''cannot''' download songs from Show Planner.
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* You will need to tracklist each song as it is played (otherwise you are in breach of the [[Presenters' Contract]]).
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* Currently there is no way to play it automatically, so you will need to play the show out via WebStudio at the scheduled time. (The Computing Team are working on this though.)
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! Nominations
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! Winner
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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 (Coco Electro)
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| ???: Dance Revolution (Gold), LSRFM: Mim Shaikh Presents The Shaikh World Show (Silver), '''URY: Coco Electro (Bronze)'''
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Given the above, if you wish to use this approach, please speak to the Programme Controller ([mailto:pc@ury.org.uk pc@ury.org.uk] or ''@Michael'' on Slack) and he will point you in the right direction.
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[[Category: Awards]] [[Category: History]]
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== Have Someone Else Mix It ==
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If you don't have the technical skills to mix a multi-person show yourself, you could ask someone else to do it. A number of our presenters and technicians have the skills and equipment to do it - so for you it'd be as simple as joining a Zoom call.
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One massive caveat though: many (if not all) of those people are '''extremely busy''' at the present time, with uni work, URY admin, and personal commitments. Don't count on this.
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If you want to do this, ask around in #remote-broadcasting in Slack. '''Make sure you have this sorted at least a week before your show.''' Remember that ultimately your show is your responsibility, and we will not be held responsible if you can't find someone to mix it for you. For this reason, you should always have a back-up plan.
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== Mix It Yourself ==
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If you're adept with audio routing (either physical or virtual), there's no reason why you couldn't mix in your guests yourself - essentially, mix them on top of your microphone feed into WebStudio.
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There are many different ways of doing this. We have [https://ury.org.uk/ceedox/engineering:documentation:voicemeeter_guide a guide] to one way, using Voicemeeter on Windows. If you're using macOS or Linux, there are certainly tools for that. If you prefer to do it in hardware, there are ways to do that too.
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Remember, however, '''you do this at your own risk'''. While the Engineering and Computing teams will make an effort to support you, there are no guarantees and responsibility remains with you if your show goes wrong. For this reason, this should only be attempted if you know what you're doing and how to fix it without anyone from URY helping you.
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== Bribe The Computing Team To Implement Native Multi-Person Shows In WebStudio ==
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I'm told they accept payment in alcoholic and/or caffeinated beverages.
 
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