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About the City of York  The historic city of York is situated in the county of North Yorkshire close to the city of Leeds, It dates back to Roman times and was called Jorvik in Viking times. The city has many proud landmark and one is the Minster which can be found in the centre of York, it features large stained glass windows historic sculptures and impressive towers. The city also boasts an historic street called the Shambles which features small shops that date back many centuries. York is the home of the National Railway Museum which features the countries largest collection of Railway locomotives and vehicles. The city is built on the River Ouse which runs through the city on it's final journey to the Humber Estuary at Goole. In the year 2000 the city of York featured in the News, not only in Britain, but right around the world when the mighty Ouse threatened to burst its banks through the city. Modern day York is a thriving place like many major urban areas. But York can also rely on its treasured history that makes it one of the countries most popular tourist destinations.
About the Station  York Hospital Radio provides a radio service to the patients, visitors and staff on Patientline channel 45 on the bedside radio's, in the main Hospital for the city. The station broadcasts 24-hours a day using the latest broadcast computer technology, which the station's 20 presenters use to broadcast programmes round the clock. The stations programmes range from Patient Request Shows to General Entertainment Programmes, that together entertain all ages in the Hospital along with hourly news bulletins and our own local news on a Saturday at 1pm.
Our live request programme, The Request Jukebox is broadcast on weekday evenings. The request presenters or ward walkers visit the patients during the afternoon or early evening. Patients can then request their favourite piece of music from the Jukebox list. Patients and staff also have direct contact with the 24-hour Request Jukebox hot line line on *800 on the Patientline system or on (01904 628800/Hospital Ext 5500) or through our on line request service at The Request Jukebox.  Football is also very important to the people of York and almost everyone in the city supports their local team, York City FC. The "Minster Men" as they're known play at the Kit Kat Crescent ground, which is close to the Hospital. Patients in Hospital can keep up to date with their local side through York Hospital Radio's live match commentary every Saturday afternoon from 3pm in Goal Line (home matches only).
Hospital Radio also broadcasts live performances from the York Theatre Royal exclusively for the patients in Hospital, so every Christmas you can expect to hear the patients booing and cheering along with the audience at the annual panto! 
Above all York Hospital Radio is about entertainment and information.All the volunteers involved are trying to make a patients stay as enjoyable as possible whilst keeping them up to date with what's happening in the great city of York. History of York Hospital Radio York Hospital Radio has been broadcasting to the hospitals of York since 1964, but further back in history there are sketchy details of broadcasts in the 1920's and the 1950's. Hospital Radio in York in its current form really began in 1964 when a group known as the Acomb Tape Recording Association started to make fortnightly taped programmes for the hospitals at Acomb, Naburn and Fulford, eventually expanding to broadcast to 9 hospitals. It must also be acknowledged that there are details of hospital radio in the city in the 1920's, and that football commentaries from Bootham Crescent were first broadcast to fans in hospital in 1959. After 1964, the York Hospital Broadcasting Service (YHBS) grew out of the Tape Recording Association (via the Ebor Tape Recording Club) and moved from Acomb to a pathology lab at Fulford Military Hospital. In 1966, YHBS moved to the second floor of the Grange accommodation block on Huntington Road, York's former workhouse. A studio was set up to make live programmes, as the emphasis shifted away from tape recording. The first live programmes were broadcast in 1968 and the schedule was widened far beyond only request shows. Ever since, the station has expanded into regular football commentaries, music and magazine shows, live outside broadcasts from the Theatre Royal and York Minster and a whole range of venues and events. YHBS soon became the only occupants of the Grange, and it became apparent that the group really needed its own property. It spent 10 years raising £55,000 for, and then building, its own purpose built studio block in the grounds of the Grange. With much ceremony, 1983 saw the move into the new bungalow studio behind Huntingdon Road, but it wasn't to last. The Health Trust wanted to sell its land on the Grange site for student accommodation and it re-housed YHBS (now known by its on air name, York Hospital Radio) into its current Bridge Lane site in 1993. In the year 2001 the station took another major leap forward by launching its 24-hour radio service using the latest broadcast computer technology. 24-hours a day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year York Hospital Radio is now able to provide its unique service around the clock. The station has also recently won awards at the National Hospital Radio Awards organised by the Hospital Broadcasting Association. In 2002 the station won 7th placed runner up in the UK and the following year won the Silver Award in the prestigious Station of the Year competition. During 2004 the station celebrated 40 years of broadcasting to Hospital patients in York. During the year the station produced a special documentary programme, a live simulcast with BBC Radio York and held a Gala Dinner at York Race Course. Patron & Ambassadors Following a re-constitution in 2006. York Hospital Radio was proud to introduce a new team to assist the Executive Committee, they are: Harry Gration - Patron Jules Bellerby - Ambassador Professor Alan Maynard - Ambassador June Snowden - Ambassador
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