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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.
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
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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) |