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Line 1: − Every year, towards the end of the Autumn Term, URY has this awful habit of doing two "festive" "things".+ + − == URY Christmas Single ==+ − URY's Committee, Presenters and general happeners all get together on a Saturday (or other convenient time), to record a cute original music video for a popular song. Of course, this is then followed up with a studio recording of our wonderful voices singing - I can assure you it's an experience. − Usually, these songs are covers of traditional Christmas tunes. Although sometimes they will be parodies relevant to the University of York, or even completely original compositions. As of 2013, all of these are available in URY's Central Music Library.+ − {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"+ − ! Year − ! Song − ! Notes − |- − | 2015 − | All I Want for Christmas is You − | Cover of Mariah Carey's Christmas hit − |- − | 2014 − | Christmas is All Around − | Recreating the opening song to the movie ''Love Actually'' Which itself is a cover of the song "''Love is All Around''" but this has more christmas.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWiOggaWkZU] − |- − | 2013 − | Fairytale of New York − | A nice traditional outright cover. Entirely produced by URY. [http://youtu.be/o22F27cOpGg] − |- − | 2013 − | This is Hes East − | Part of the 2013 Christmas Panto. Yes, we know the panto version doesn't normally do "A Whole New World". [http://youtu.be/qEO9mYaIuTg] − |- − | 2012 − | Merry Christmas Everyone − | There are rumours an alternate version consisting entirely of the URY Computing Team exists, but was never allowed to see daylight. Entirely produced by URY. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6m1Y0Uu6DE] − |- − | 2011 − | Black Christmas − | A parody of Rebecca Black's Friday. Due to lack of forward planning, was performed live on air by whoever was around at the time. Failed miserably. − |- − | 2010 − | I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday − | Outright cover. The music video was produced by YSTV. We don't talk about it. [https://ystv.co.uk/watch/URYXmas/URYXmas2010/] − |- − | 2010 − | I Go To York Uni, It's True − | Little is known of this parody of All I Want For Christmas Is You - not even the source of the vocals. However, we can learn a valuable lesson - the only thing that has changed ever since is that you can't get olives in YUSU Bars anymore. − |- − | 2009 − | Do They Know It's Christmas? − | The older tech we had back then is quite obvious. [https://ystv.co.uk/watch/URYXmas/URY-Christmas-single-2009/] − |- − | 2008 − | Christmas On My Face (A Terrible Case of Xmas) − | This is original. Original! And also The Best Thing! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICvXorh-s] − |} − + + − + − Of course, what radio station would be completely without a Christmas Panto? Featuring a "Celebrity" guest, each year we put our own spin on popular pantomimes. − {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed wikitable"+ − ! Year+ − ! Production+ − ! Guest Star+ − + − |-+ − | 2015+ − | Oliver Twist+ − | TBC+ − | + − |-+ − | 2014+ − | Dick Whittington and His Cat+ − | CBBC's Raven+ − | + − |-+ − | 2013+ − | Aladdin+ − | Jon Lee (off of S Club 7)+ − | Someone talk about this.+ − |-+ − | 2012+ − | I can't remember.+ − | Some Bloke off of Coronation Street, I think.+ − | + − |}+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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Here's a potted '''history''' of the URY '''website''', courtesy of the Wayback Machine.
== c.1999-Oct 2003 ==
[[File:ws1.png]]
The earliest version of the website available on the Web Archive was definitely a product of its time, with the bright orange branding of that era prominent throughout and a very 90s GIF-based sidebar on the left.
It even had a guestbook, with some rather ''interesting'' contents.
[[Category: URY History]]
At one point in 2000, [[Gavin Atkinson]] updated the site.
This design was created by [[Leo Warner]], and doesn't really work too well in 1080p.
== Christmas Panto ==
=== Webcasting ===
At the start of Web Archive captures of the URY website, URY were still broadcasting only on 999kHz and did not yet simulcast on the Internet; however, by 2003, URY had leapt forward into the Internet Age by hosting a worldwide live stream... using ''RealPlayer''. Oh well...
== Oct 2003-Summer? 2006 ==
! Notes
[[File:ws2.png]]
A radically new website design was launched in time for Autumn term 2003, featuring for the first time what seemed to be sensible web design (for it was a new millennium and the days of gaudy sidebars and orange on grey were far behind the URY computing team, in all their wisdom).
The guestbook and RealPlayer streams were still there, though.
This website ''does'' work quite well in 1080p, considering.
The then Head of Production, Simon Taghioff, was instrumental in this overhaul.
== 2006-2010 ==
[[File:ws3.png]]
A minor update of the previous website, with even more orange... and no guestbook in sight! RealPlayer by now had been joined by MP3 and Ogg Vorbis streams as URY's streaming technology marched on.
What the ''hell'' is that font on the advertising banner?
This design was jiggled around a bit over its four years of service, but remained mostly the same.
== 2010-2011 ==
[[File:URYsite09.png]]
In what was probably the most short-lived (and expensive!) of website designs, URY got [http://www.freelancegraphicdesigner.co.uk/ury-web-design.html a professional graphics designer] in to completely redesign the website in conjunction with URY's comprehensive rebranding.
The result was a lovely set of graphics (lovely being subjective on whether or not you like Impact as a font), but the code for the website wasn't as lovely. According to legend, the site was programmed in under a week to meet harsh deadlines and was therefore effectively hacked together. Despite all this, it worked for a year and as of writing the code is still there in heavily modified form.
Sources indicate that a DaveX was responsible for the coding.
== 2011-2012 ==
[[File:ws2011.png]]
The current website was largely the result of a rehashing of the design from last year by the combined efforts of [[Darren Webb]] and [[Rob Stonehouse]] on design and [[Matt Windsor]] on programming (which mainly involved tidying up the previous round of code and implementing the design changes in HTML5 and CSS).
This website won a YUM award in 2011.
There's still no guestbook.
== 2012-2013 ==
[[File:ws2012.png]]
In October 2012, the website was completely replaced with a shinier, newer, completely re-written site based on Django (a Python web framework). Despite the shiny new design, we immediately regretted this decision. The site was put live before it was ready - features were missing and never were fully implemented on this generation, and large amounts of it relied on a completely new database schema, so all of the Members' Internal website tools broke with the replacement. It suffered in service for less than a year before it was retired on August 2013.
== 2013-Present ==
''For a picture, load up [http://ury.org.uk ury.org.uk]!''
Sticking with the Python, Matt Windsor again went on an endeavour for a better website. With an entirely new codebase in Pyramid (another Python web framework) and SQLAlchemy, and a few shinifications to the actual design itself, this site went into production in August 2013, at the same time as our upgrade to Apache 2.4 and the replacement of Members' Internal with MyURY. Over the remainder of the Summer Holidays, MyURY was expanded to ensure it had capabilities to actually maintain this website, and so shiny Banner and Podcast systems were available and the site once again looked pretty.
There's still no guest book, but there is a sign up form on the Get Involved page.