Student Radio Association

Surge is the award-winning student radio station of the University of Southampton. For more information on our annual RSL, follow the link above. Surge used to broadcast as Radio Glen and has been in existence for 31 years. The change of station name to SURGE was due to us taking on annual FM RSLs in association with the Students' Union. More recently we have lost the acronym ('Southampton University Radio from Glen Eyre') and simply refer to ourselves as Southampton University Radio Station, although we have retained the Surge callsign and branding. At Surge we have a policy of total inclusion. No matter what sort of specialist music you want to play your more that welcome to undertake the basic training and have a slot on our schedule. If you're not too keen on presenting on-air, that's fine, as we have a massive range of other jobs on our various teams such as the news team and the music team. You can find contact email addresses for all committee members (heads of departments) on the committee page and they should all be able to explain how you can become involved in their areas. The content of our shows is very important, we need our DJs to provide informative banter that the listeners will enjoy whether it's specialist content, or general entertainment. All of our content adheres to the Office of Communications guidelines which can be found on their site and during your training you will be given full instruction on them. We currently have a wide variety of shows ranging from talk and debate shows to specialist dance shows, and you have quite a lot of scope depending on where your interests lie. We can also air pre-recorded shows and we currently have a range of comedy sketch shows and radio plays in production.

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Station Founded 1970The Southampton University radio station is currently known a Surge, however this is only a recent development. Until Christmas 2000 the station was called Radio Glen. This was changed due to the increased involvement of the station with the rest of the university and not just the Glen Eyre halls of residence, where the AM transmitter is sited.   Henry Walmsley was Chief Engineer for Radio Glen a number of years ago and although he has since left, evidence of his hard work still remains all over the station. He built much of the equipment that is still used everyday by our DJs, although much of it has been heavily modified by subsequent station technicians. The picture to the right is of Henry stood by M block, a photo which was kept on the wall of our old Glen Eyre office. Even today Henry keeps in touch with the station, and is never far away when a member of our technical team have a question about how something works! In its previous incarnation as Radio Glen the station was legal for about 20 years and existed in some form even before then known as Radio Heffalump. The station used to be broadcast by a series of antenna in every block in Glen connected by bits of coaxial cable which were draped all over the place, this is know an an induction loop system, and is now used by very limited number of radio stations. The station originally broadcast from a studio in F block in Glen, and on the photos page, there are a selection of shots showing this studio. In 1998 everything moved to a new specially designed room in New Terrace which provided us with a good technical cupboard and a room to use as an office.

Station Manager: Joseph McLoughlin

Programme Controller: David Gilani

Programme Controller: Harriet Ellis

Head of Production: Becca Roberts

Head of Production: Matthew Whitaker

Head of Music: Emma

Head of Music: Joseph McLoughlin

Head of Music: Alex Rogers

Head of News: Abbie Chapman

Head of News: Emily Sheldrake

Head of Marketing: Alex Copland

Head of Events: Alexandra Cunningham

Head of Events: Alastair Campbell

Head of IT: Nicholas Humfrey

Head of IT: Ben Morton

SU Sabbatical: vpcomms1

Presenter: Becci Ford

Presenter: Oli Narbs

Presenter: Chris Bilko

Producer: James Truman

Alumnus: Paul Kiddle

Alumnus: Jason Allen

Alumnus: Matthew Hurst

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