Former Student Radio Association Station of the Year, CUR1350 is gearing up to become a new community radio station aimed at students, staff, academics and alumni. Based within the world famous city of Cambridge, 'Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University Radio' is preparing to launch its unique services after it was awarded a community FM licence by OFCOM (the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) on Tuesday 17 March 2009.

With big plans to become the centre of the academic community in Cambridge, the team currently behind CUR1350 have worked closely with OFCOM and various student community groups to secure the coveted community radio licence which will see the new project launch on FM radio in the near future.

Run entirely by volunteers at Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Universities, the latest round of OFCOM licensing could not have fallen at a better time, with the organisation CUR 1350 - Cambridge Universities Radio celebrating its 30th Birthday. Founded in 1979, the then Cambridge University Broadcasting Society set up a series of restricted licence broadcasts from the basement of a graduate house at the cities Churchill College. Eventually reaching AM radio waves in 1998, the now 'CUR1350' has grown to include the communities of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Universities, becoming the UK's number 1 student radio station in 2007.

Applying for FM was the next natural progression for the fledgling broadcasting service which now aims to become a 21st Century Media Hub.