History
URY was set up in 1967 by Mike Greasley, then a student of the university. The station broadcast for the first time that year as Radio York under a test licence, and was the first station independent of the BBC to broadcast legally in the UK. The station was relaunched as University Radio York in 1969, featuring a guest broadcast by DJ John Peel.
The station switched from its original 998 kHz induction loop system to a LPAM licence in 1999, and now broadcasts across the both of York University's Heslington and Heslington East campuses on 1350AM. The station has also conducted several RSL FM broadcasts across the whole of the city, the last of these being in 2008.
Initially the station's purpose was to broadcast lectures and educational material as well as popular music, however the output is now mainly entertainment-based, with additional specialist arts and speech programming. News was provided by The Student Broadcast Network until its demise however, the station's long-running news programme York Report at 6pm is still a pivotal part of the evening schedule.
In 2008, URY broadcast 12 hours of US Presidential Election coverage.
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