A Little History

Purple Radio had existed in Van Mildert College for a number years, until 2004 when it was moved to Dunelm House, making it more accessible to all students at the university. The decision was taken to covert the station to internet broadcasting, thus allowing broadcasts to me made all year round and remove our dependency on four week Restrictive Service Licenses. Our first internet broadcast took place at the beginning of Epiphany Term 2005 but due to snow storms, the station was taken off air for another year and launched again in Epiphany Term 2006.

Since then, the station has broadcasted through all the terms successfully and has participted in the first Student Radio Chart Show run and undertaken two 24 hour extravagnzas to raise money for local causes. See our Wikipedia entry if you want to know more about the past of Purple

Why 'Purple Radio'?

Orginally, our station was called Purple FM 107 until 2005 when the transition was made to internet broadcasting. FM 107 were chosen simply because this was the broadcast medium used. When we moved to Dunelm House, Purple Radio made much more sense. Palatinate is the offical colour of the university (#682860 for those interested!) so being the offical radio station, Purple Radio made sense.

Offical Aims of Purple Radio

• To provide a fully fuctioning radio station to all students of University of Durham
• To provide indepdent broadcasts without influence from the DSU or the university
• To train presenters to produce high quality shows that abide Ofcom's rules of broadcasting
• To have an exec team that is elected fairly every year
• To allow those who are interested to broadcast from Dunelm House

Our Studio

Custom built by our first station manager, Mike Hanson, our studio is sound proofed and provides excellent facilities for presenting shows. With capacity for four presenters and two guests, our studio is a pleasant environment that is air conditioned, has subtle lighting as well as the professional audio equipment you would expect.