CUR1350 (Cambridge University Radio)

City of license	Cambridge
Broadcast area	University of Cambridge & ARU
Slogan	Work Hard, Play Harder!
First air date	February 1979
Frequency	1350 KHz (MW), CURintheBAR cable, Online,
Format	Variety - Music & Speech (Music: rock/dance/indie/pop, Speech: news/arts/debates/comedy)
Owner	CUR Media
Website	www.cur1350.co.uk

CUR1350 (formerly known as Cambridge University Radio) is a student-run radio station at the University of Cambridge. The station broadcasts on a mediumwave frequency of 1350 kHz, from a studio located in the basement of a house owned by Churchill College. CUR1350 is a member of the Student Radio Association. Image File history File links Cur1350logoshadowed. ... In the United States (and potentially elswhere), each radio station or TV station is assigned a city of license by the Federal Communications Commission that they must serve. While this has become far less meaningful over the decades, stations are still required to post their public file somewhere within the... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The revamped main entrance to Anglia Ruskin University on East Road, Cambridge. ... Look up Slogan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Sine waves of various frequencies; the bottom waves have higher frequencies than those above. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... This page as shown in the AOL 9. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Full name Churchill College Motto Forward Named after Sir Winston Churchill Previous names - Established 1960 Sister College(s) Trinity College Master Sir John Boyd Location Storeys Way Undergraduates 440 Postgraduates 210 Homepage Boatclub Churchill College Main Entrance Churchill College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of... The Student Radio Association (SRA) is a national organisation set up to support student radio stations in the UK. It receives support from the Radio Academy. ...

History

In 1979, the student-run Cambridge University Broadcasting Society founded a radio station. Despite successfully applying for a number of short-term FM licenses, the station lacked a way of continuously broadcasting to the University's students, and so struggled to achieve widespread popularity. This page refers to the year 1979. ... Frequency modulation (FM) is a form of modulation which represents information as variations in the instantaneous frequency of a carrier wave. ...

In 1992 the station was granted permission to install induction loops around the Cambridge colleges of New Hall and Churchill, allowing residents to listen to CUR945 (as it was then known) over a short-range, mono, mediumwave broadcast. The widespread growth of the Internet, along with many colleges installing high-speed Ethernet connections in student rooms, prompted the station to launch a simultaneous webcast in 1998. This allowed students from throughout the University to listen to the station whenever they were near a computer. In 2004, the internet audio webcasts were upgraded, and in 2005 a user-friendly station player was launched. 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... Full name New Hall Motto - Named after - Previous names - Established 1954 Sister College St Annes College President Anne Lonsdale Location Huntingdon Road Undergraduates 377 Graduates 74 Homepage Boatclub New Hall is a womens college in the University of Cambridge. ... Full name Churchill College Motto Forward Named after Sir Winston Churchill Previous names - Established 1960 Sister College(s) Trinity College Master Sir John Boyd Location Storeys Way Undergraduates 440 Postgraduates 210 Homepage Boatclub Churchill College Main Entrance Churchill College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of... Monaural (often shortened to mono) sound reproduction is single-channel. ... Mediumwave radio transmissions serves as the most common band for broadcasting. ... Ethernet is a large and diverse family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs). ... Web radio (or Internet radio) is a broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...

However, the station's members continued to aspire to expanding to a radio station receivable by traditional radio sets and, in 2002, the station successfully applied for a long-term, low-powered AM license. Still broadcasting today on 1350 kHz, the station is now known as CUR1350. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Low-power broadcasting is the concept of broadcasting at very low power and low cost, to a small community area. ...

CUR1350 is also a current applicant for a Community Radio Licence and are awaiting a decision by the industry regulator, Ofcom. Should the application be successful, CUR1350 will gain a licence to broadcast to Cambridge University and ARU in the FM waveband, bringing the station to more parts of Cambridge University and ARU in high-fidelity audio, as well as making it listenable on many more types of radio receivers. // Ofcom was designed to be a super regulator, required in an age where many media platforms are converging. ...

In 2006, CUR1350 launched a project to install a cable service to multiple sites across the University of Cambridge and ARU. Dubbed "CURintheBAR" the station is distributed via the universities' LAN network to receiving units positioned in student bars and cafes where it is relayed over loudspeakers. The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The revamped main entrance to Anglia Ruskin University on East Road, Cambridge. ...

CUR1350 is financially self-sufficient via on-air and on-line advertising and sponsorship. Profits are invested back into the station to improve the service for listeners and the experience for station members. The station receives no funding from either university or any student union. CUR1350 is now a major player in the radio market of 18-30 year olds in Cambridge.

Current broadcasts

CUR1350 currently broadcasts continuously, with an automated playout system filling the intervals between live broadcasts. During termtime, much of the station's output is live between the hours of 8am and 1am. Programmes are produced and presented by undergraduate and postgraduate students at both the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge campus of Anglia Ruskin University. A majority of programmes are specialist music shows (e.g. drum and bass, indie rock, garage), though others are aimed at a wider audience (e.g. their breakfast show, theatre/film review show, or local news coverage). The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The revamped main entrance to Anglia Ruskin University on East Road, Cambridge. ... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to DnB or drum n bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Indie rock is a subgenre of rock music often used to refer to bands that are on small independent record labels or that arent on labels at all. ... It has been suggested that UKG: UK Garage and Two-step be merged into this article or section. ...

In 2004 the station won four awards in the annual Student Radio Awards. The presenter Val Mellon (now heard on the national DAB station Core -- see below) won a gold award for Best Entertainment Show, as well as a bronze award for Best Female. A further gold award was presented to the station for Technical Achievement, in recognition of the station's proprietary, platform-independent, webcast player. A silver award was also given to the station for Best Sports Programming, in respect of the station's live coverage of the annual Oxford vs. Cambridge rugby union Varsity match. Sports coverage also earned the station a silver award in 2003, for their annual coverage of the May Bumps -- an inter-collegiate rowing competition held on the River Cam. 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Student Radio Association (SRA) is a national organisation set up to support student radio stations in the UK. It receives support from the Radio Academy. ... Core is a digital radio station broadcasting across the UK on the Digital One multiplex. ... The Varsity Match usually refers to the annual rugby union fixture played between the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in England. ... A bumps race is a form of rowing race in which a number of boats are started a set distance apart and attempt to catch the boat in front. ... The River Cam is a tributary of the River Great Ouse in the east of England. ...

In 2005 CUR1350 was nominated for 4 awards, the 2005 awards seeing twice as many competing entries as the previous year. The nominations for CUR1350 were: Technical Achievement - for the wireless internet link for the Bumps 2005 tannoy, Sports Broadcasting (Ed Bolton) - for The Sports Show including interviews with Chris Eubank, Specialist Music (Samuel Green) - for Kol Cambridge the UK's only broadcast Israeli/Jewish radio show, Station of the Year (Michael Brooks et al). 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Edmund Bolton, (born September 29, 1985, Salisbury, UK), was one of the stars of the first series of the Channel 4 TV show Beauty and the Geek (UK). ... This article or section seems not to be written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopaedia entry. ...

CUR1350 has a reputation for cutting-edge strategy in media. The great majority of technology used by CUR1350 is developed in-house (such as the automated playout system, computerised playout systems and audio routing in the studio) enabling the station to be built to specification. CUR1350 covers 21,000 university members in the University of Cambridge and ARU, and attracts 8,000 listeners each term / 1450 listeners each week. The station is currently experiencing an increase of 3,000 listeners per term on a year on year basis.

Alumni

Several of the station's members have subsequently achieved considerable success in the wider world of radio & television broadcasting. Notable examples include:

• Spencer Bignell (aka Spencer Kelly), is presenter of the BBC TV programme Click Online and formerly presenter on Ocean FM broadcasting across Portsmouth and Southampton.
• Ellie Buchanan (aka Woodstock Taylor), one of the original founders of the Cambridge University Broadcasting Society, was a freelance BBC presenter for many years and is now a successful singer and songwriter.
• Simon Cooper, also one of the original founders of the society, was the Group Public Affairs Director of the GCap radio conglomerate before leaving to establish a public image consultancy firm.
• Chris Dearden is now a news reporter for BBC Radio Wales, after a stint at BBC Essex, BBC London and BBC South East Today.
• Matt Fincham currently presents an overnight slot on Vibe 105-108, as well as depping for several other shows on the station.
• Kevin Greening, a presenter on BBC Radio 1 throughout the latter half of the 1990s, is now a presenter on 102.2 Smooth FM, which broadcasts across Greater London.
• Bern Leckie, current Programme Controller of GCap's DAB stations Core and Chill.
• Chris Mason is a broadcast journalist with BBC Westminster.
• Val Mellon is a presenter on the national DAB station Core.
• Rob Ousbey, Production Coordinator at national speech DAB station Oneword Radio
• Richard Straffon was the overnight presenter on Key 103 in Manchester until April 2005, and is now the drivetime presenter on 97.6 Chiltern FM.
• Matt Price is now a BBC Middle East Correspondent

The station holds annual alumni days, on which former members are invited back to once again produce and present shows for listeners within the University. Presenter Stephen Cole Click Online is a television programme made by the BBC covering news and recent developments in the world of consumer technology. ... // Overview Ocean FM is a British commercial radio station serving South Hampshire, West Sussex and the Isle of Wight primarily for Portsmouth and Southampton. ... Portsmouth is a city of about 189,000 people located in the county of Hampshire on the southern coast of England. ... Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England. ... GCap Media plc is a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. ... BBC Radio Wales is the BBCs national radio station broadcasting to Wales in the English language. ... BBC Essex is the BBC Local Radio service for the English county of Essex. ... BBC London is the brand for the BBCs tri-media radio, television and online service for London and its immediate environs. ... The BBC South Today title card BBC South East Today is the BBCs regional television news programme for Kent, East Sussex, and parts of West Sussex, Surrey and Essex. ... Born in 1964, Kevin Greening is a British radio presenter, who has worked on several BBC Radio stations, and currently presents for 102. ... BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music aimed at the 16-24 age bracket. ... 102. ... Greater London is the top level administrative subdivision covering London, England. ... GCap Media plc is a British commercial radio company formed from the merger of the Capital Radio Group and GWR Group. ... Core is a digital radio station broadcasting across the UK on the Digital One multiplex. ... Look up chill in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Core is a digital radio station broadcasting across the UK on the Digital One multiplex. ... Oneword Radio is a British commercial radio station featuring books, drama, comedy, childrens programming, and discussion. ... Key 103 is a radio station that broadcasts on 103 FM, from a 4KW transmitter on Saddleworth Moor, to Manchester and the north west of England. ... Manchester is a major city within Greater Manchester in North West England, historically notable for being the worlds first industrialised city, and its subsequent central role in the Industrial Revolution. ... Based on Chiltern Road in Dunstable, Bedfordshire. ...

External link

• CUR1350 official website