About
The station is primarily designed to be a communication medium for students at Swansea University, with the station also aiming to provide experience of radio broadcasting to its student volunteers. This not only includes presenting but production, playlisting and other aspects of radio as well.
Guests have included The Automatic, Scouting for Girls and Phill Jupitus, amongst others, and has also included outside interviews with Lenny Henry, Fightstar, Feeder, Bombay Bicycle Club, Ed Sheeran amongst others.
The station was opened in November 1968, (making it the second oldest student radio station in the UK after 1967's University Radio York and before 1971's University Radio Essex). Prior to becoming known as Xtreme Radio, the station had three previous incarnations - Action Radio, URA and C-Air.
As of 2011 Xtreme broadcasts programmes between 9am and 12pm Monday to Friday and 11am to midnight on weekends, with non-stop music and hourly news updates on air at all other times. Specialist pre-recorded shows are broadcast after 9pm on most days, and during the day live mainstream shows are broadcast.
Xtreme also broadcasts several speech-based programmes, including campus, local and national sports news and results on its live Saturday afternoon sport show 'The Dugout'. The station is also a part of the Student Radio Association, and syndicates the Student Radio Association Chart on Sundays.
Xtreme re-launched on 19 September 2008 with a brand new website, logo and also launched the Xtreme Lounge, part of the Union nightclub on campus.
The station was formerly part of The Student Broadcast Network. The station also has two advertising slots per hour, these are managed by BAM Student Marketing.
Over the 2010 Summer Holidays, as part of a new agreement between Xtreme and the SU, the Xtreme studios were given their first major facelift in many years.
As of November 2010, the station will no longer be broadcasting on AM due to lack of funds and listenership (on AM).
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