University Radio York

University Radio York, usually known as URY, is the University of York's student-run radio station. Broadcasting since 1968, it aims to inform and entertain students through a wide range of music and spoken programmes. Its studios are based in Vanbrugh College, but the station's activities extend across campus and into the city's cultural life.

Presenters devise programmes around their own interests, producing specialist music selections, conversation, interviews and podcasts. Live sessions give local and touring musicians an opportunity to perform, while the news team creates reports, analysis and discussion. Campus events and student elections supply subjects closely connected to the audience's own university experience.

URY Newshour and URY Sportshour give reporting dedicated appointments, while the URY Chart Show and SRA Chart Show connect music with student listening choices. Other programme titles include Sounds of the North, Rock Around the World, Soul Soup and The LP Lexicon. The The Show Show, presented by Elizabeth Slater and Holly Macnamara, discusses film and television. Comedy society contributions add another campus perspective, alongside the station's many individual music and conversation formats.

URY's sports team covers university competition, including the Roses tournament, and volunteers can become involved in presentation, production, journalism or engineering. The station offers a setting in which students develop skills while making programmes for fellow students. Its sound reflects that changing membership, bringing different musical tastes and perspectives together with reporting from university life.