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Student run radio station at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University

Cam FM (formerly known as Cambridge University Radio and later CUR1350) is a student run radio station at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. The station broadcasts online and has an FM frequency of 97.2 MHz. The station opened studios at Anglia Ruskin University and Fitzwilliam College and started broadcasting in 2012 from these locations after having spent its first 32 years located in Churchill College. Cam FM once held the world record for the longest team broadcast marathon, at 76 hours, and following the significant technical overhaul as a result of the two new studios in 2012, provided the first ever broadcast media coverage of the Oxford vs Cambridge Women's Boat Race from Dorney Lake, as well as live outside broadcasts from Newmarket Races and the Varsity Ski Trip. despite once winning Best Station at the Association's Student Radio Awards 2007 as CUR1350. However, Cam FM rejoined the Student Radio Association in 2019. Cam FM is managed by a committee of annually elected students and alumni of the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.

In early 1979, Simon Cooper, Ellie Buchanan, and David Clouter at the student run Cambridge University Broadcasting Society founded a radio station which was granted permission to install induction loops around the Cambridge colleges of Churchill and later New Hall, allowing residents to listen to Cambridge University Radio (as it was then known) over a short range, mono, mediumwave broadcast. The station subsequently became CUR945. Broadcasting on 1350 kHz, the station was then known as CUR1350. In 2006, CUR1350 launched a project to install a cable service to multiple sites across the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin. Dubbed "CURintheBAR", the station was distributed via the universities' LAN network to receiving units positioned in student bars and cafes, where it was relayed over loudspeakers. In March 2009, the station was granted an FM Community Radio Licence by the UK regulator Ofcom to become the only FM radio station targeting members of Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University. Regular programmes began on the new frequency of 97.2 FM in October 2010; the station is now rebranded as Cam FM. Cam FM is financially self sufficient via on air and online advertising and a yearly membership fee. Profits are invested back into the station to improve the service for listeners and the experience for station members. The station receives no funding from either the university or any student union.

Cam FM currently broadcasts continuously, with an automated playout system filling the intervals between live broadcasts. During term time, much of the station's output is live between the hours of 8am and 1am. Programmes are produced and presented by undergraduate and postgraduate students and alumni at both the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge campus of Anglia Ruskin University. A majority of programmes are specialist music shows (e. g. drum and bass, indie rock, UK garage), though others are aimed at a wider audience (e. g. their breakfast show, theatre/film review show, or local news coverage). Most of the technology used by Cam FM is developed in house, such as their automated playout system, computerized playout systems and audio routing in the studio, enabling the station to be built to specification.

Several of the station's members have subsequently achieved considerable success in the wider world of radio & television broadcasting. Notable examples include:
Kevin Greening, a presenter on BBC Radio 1 throughout the latter half of the 1990s, went on to present on 102.2 Smooth FM, which broadcasts across Greater London, until his untimely death aged 44 in December 2007. Matthew Price is now the BBC's Europe Correspondent, having previously been BBC's New York Correspondent and Middle East Correspondent. Spencer Kelly is the presenter of the BBC TV programme Click Online and was formerly a presenter on Ocean FM broadcasting across Portsmouth and Southampton. Martin Steers is the Station Manager of NLive Radio in Northampton, the Founder and Chair of the UK National Community Radio Awards, and the Founder and Manager of Scout Radio. The station once held annual alumni days, on which former members were invited back to once again produce and present shows for listeners within the University.