Smoke Radio
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| Broadcast area | UK |
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| Frequency | Live Stream QuickTime |
| First air date | 2004 |
| Format | Contemporary |
| Owner | UWSU & University of Westminster |
| Website | www.smokeradio.co.uk |
Smoke Radio is a student-run radio station at the University of Westminster. The station broadcasts online, from a studio located in the Media Arts and Design campus of the university, located in Harrow. Smoke Radio is a member of the Student Radio Association.
In 2007 Smoke Radio won the Silver Award for "Best Station 2007" at the Student Radio Awards, and then won the award again in 2008, making Smoke Radio the UK's second best Student Radio Station for two consecutive years.
History
It was established in 2004 by then students: Joe Haddow, Tim Pryor, Sam Gregory and Mark Jackson with additional help from others throughout the University of Westminster - including Radio Production Lecturer, Matthew Linfoot. After the intake of new students in September 2005 the station took to running a 24 hour playout system and began a broadcasting a schedule of live programmes during the week.
In 2008 the station completely rebranded. The logo was changed so it was related to other logos used by the University of Westminster's Students' Union. The on air branding was voiced by students Nick 'Fiz' Bright and Sophie Clamp and the music selection was altered to better suit the tastes of Westminster's Student body. In 2010, the voice of Smoke Radio became Luke Shasha. There will be a new voice of Smoke Radio for the term 2011/2012.
Smoke Breakfast
In January 2011, Smoke Radio launched its first Breakfast Show, which currently broadcasts on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Mornings from 8 - 10 am.
Student Radio Awards
2006
In 2006 Smoke Radio had won awards at the Student Radio Awards, including the Gold Award for "Best Journalistic Programming" and two Bronze Awards for "Best Marketing and Station Sound" and "Best Station 2006".
2008
At the 2008 Student Radio Awards, Smoke Radio also picked up a Bronze Award for "Best Interview", for an interview with British humorist, Danny Wallace; and the Gold Award for "Best Newcomer" was awarded to the first-year work of Dan Roberts.
2009
Smoke won two Gold Awards for "Best Marketing and Branding" and "Best Outside Broadcast", the latter being for "Smoke's Summer Send-Off" - a week long broadcast during the final week of 2008's academic year. They were also nominated for "Best Station" and "Best Technical Achievement".
2010
Smoke won a bronze award for 'Best Marketing and Branding'. They were also nominated for "Best Outside Broadcast", "Best Interview", and "Best Speech Based Programme".
2011
Smoke were nominated in the Specialist Music category for the first ever time at the 2011 SRA Awards Nomination Party. They in fact gained two nominations in the category - One each for John Cadigan's World Music Show and another for Frank McWeeney's French Toast.
There were also two nominations for Sam Foster in the Speech category, one for his fabulous 2UP and another for a project called Slapdashery which he worked on alongside Carly Maile.
Smoke received further nominations in the best newcomer category for the current Station Manager 'Natalie Holiday' as well as the best interview for Gary Pounder's in depth chat with Libertines drummer Gary Powell.
The awards night itself proved very successful for the station as French Toast brought home Smoke Radio's only Gold of the night and their first for the Specialist Music category. Natalie Holiday won a Silver and Sam Foster's 2UP also won Smoke their first award (Silver) for the speech category.
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