Campus media continue their award success
York University enhanced its standing in the world of student media with the success of its television and radio societies.
At the National Student Television Association Awards, YSTV collected the ‘Best Station Ident’ award after being highly commended in last year’s awards and winning it in 2003. They narrowly missed out on the ‘Best Broadcaster’ category to Loughborough’s student station.
15 stations participated in the awards and conference, which was hosted jointly at Leeds by YSTV and Leeds Student Television who themselves scooped four awards. This academic year has seen award winning performances on all fronts of the student media, including URY winning ‘Best Student Station’ at the Student Radio Associations awards in its first year of entry.
As part of the prize the station gets to broadcast live from Radio 1 on Monday May 29th at the BBC’s London studios, with three URY presenters going on air. The bank holiday broadcast will be on in the 4am-7am slot preceding the JK and Joel show.
Programme Controller Sarah Forster said “”We’re really excited to get this chance to be on national radio, our hard work has paid off. Hopefully it means a lot more people will get to enjoy what URY is about, rather than having to limit it to just York’s students.” The station is planning to continue its outside broadcasts, hosting a live event in JJ’s bar featuring Dublin band Director in week 3.
The event is supported by Leeds group The Hair and campus favourites The Memos. Tickets are priced £2 and are available from YOUR:SHOP.
