About Bay Radio

"Broadcast... Even if you have nowhere to do it but in your lounge"

Those were the words uttered from Gareth Corbin's mouth in 1997, as the early stages of a student radio station in Aberystwyth were coming together. It all happened, as it always does when it comes to students and media, one idle Tuesday when Gareth and a number of other friends sat down in the pub and said, "What Aberystwyth needs is a student radio station".

From the start, the long-term plan was to build a radio station serving the student population of Aberystwyth. After working with the Guild of Students, Bay Radio came to life at 10am on 11th January 1999. First broadcasting from the DJ booth from the union restuarant with a mixer, 2 CD players and a Mini Disk player. Over the first year more equipment was bought, and the Bay Radio News room was opened in Llanbadarn. From there, daily news was produced and sent to the studio in Penglais.

As the second year of broadcasting began, the on-air hours expanded and the station ran from 9am until 7pm in the evening.

After more fundraising and generation of income through advertising, Bay Radio got its hands on the first, and most essential, part of a professional broadcast studio, a brand new mixer. As the news rooms moved into a new office in the Guild buildings in Penglais they also got a number of different pieces of kit.

By 2001, Bay Radio was on the move again, this time to their present home in the depths of the Union (after sharing their offices with the student magazine "The Courier"), where a dedicated team of volunteers work to make the station essential listening for the students and staff of Aberystwyth University.

We now broadcast on the internet all day every day and have our strongest membership numbers for some years and a large team of dedicated presenters, producers and other bods on the air!