ABSTRACT
The Nottingham Trent University first began broadcasting in 1996 when its Students’ Union decided a radio station would complement the student newspaper, Platform, and add to their entertainment programme. As SU general manager Sylvia Whalton explains, the
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university helped fund the station’s first year, matching the SU’s investment of £25,000 to help equip purpose-built studios in the Student Union building, and pay for a full-time station manager. ‘We had a full time manager for four years,’ Sylvia explains. ‘This was to give us continuity between the RSLs and, because we were new to this field, to give us some assurances about what was being broadcast and that the equipment was being handled properly.’
