Tune in to Coventry’s local hospital radio, FREE 24/7! Now available on Smart Speakers and the MyTunerRadio App!
Listen on your bedside unit, online, or via the Coventry Hospital Radio App at www.coventryhospitalradio.org. If you are staying in Hospital you can find us FREE of charge on your bedside unit or online: www.coventryhospitalradio.org
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Join Richard Smith for a special 2 hour version of his A to Z of Pop from 1pm. Each week chatting and playing music from a different topic ie, Country, Instrumentals, Names, Northern Soul and Transport: www.coventryhospitalradio.org for more details.
21/12/2024
21/12/2024
Join Geoff Manns from 11am for Audiophile, features Connections, four tracks which have something in common, Bookstore when I look at the week’s best sellers and review a book, and a spot on hobbies. This is all mixed in with a big helping of music, stirred well and served with a side order of smiles. Listen in for FREE on your bedside unit or online at www.coventryhospitalradio.org
21/12/2024
Join Fred Setters from 10am for an hour of 80's music, This show is called "Simply 80's" you will hear from the likes of Bananarama, Duran Duran, Madonna, Madness, The Bangles and many, many more. So join Fred FREE on your bedside unit across UHCW and online at: https://fastcast4u.com/player/coventry/
21/12/2024
Join Julie Hughes Rowlands this morning from 8am-10am for all of this: "Julies here with a dolly mixture of music. Some old, some new and also some local groups and music from albums thrown in, plus your news headlines on when your waking up into the weekend." Listen in at www.coventryhospitalradio.org or for FREE on your bedside unit.
20/12/2024
If you struggle to sleep at night don't worry every night until 7am we have launched "CHR Through The Night" this is relaxing/soft/mellow music to help you sleep or relax and of course we will have the news headlines every hour.
20/12/2024
If you have some free time and like the idea of meeting new people while contributing to your local hospital radio station, we might have the perfect role for you in our team! Details are on our website: www.coventryhospitalradio.org
20/12/2024
The British Medical Journal (BMJ) contacted the Hospital Broadcasting Association a couple of months ago, as they wanted to produce a feature of hospital radio for their Christmas journal.
We're excited to see the final publication which is available both online and in print! It really highlights the power of hospital, health and wellbeing broadcasting and the future role it can play in promoting health and wellbeing.
Visit the BMJ website here: https://www.bmj.com/content/387/bmj.q2788 to read more and to hear interviews with representatives from the HBA, clips from award winning stations and volunteers from across the country.
HBA Member station volunteers can find the full article that appears in the print version, as a PDF via the Members Resource Centre on the HBA website.
20/12/2024
Join Laura and Simon from 7pm for three hours of great music ranging from the 60s to present day. There will be several games throughout the show and they will play all your requests too! Join them for a bucket load of laughs as they get you ready for the weekend.
20/12/2024
Hi there, I’m Ellis, here with you for half an hour of music that I call ‘Easy Listening With Ellis’. Join me every Friday between 6.30 – 7pm only on Coventry Hospital Radio.
20/12/2024
Let the weekend commence, Join Moz Baker from 4pm as he will get your weekend underway with an eclectic mix of tunes from across the decades. From Sinatra to Styles, Streisand to Swift there's a little something for everyone. Test your knowledge with his Mystery Icon quiz as well as Cov Kid memories, Sky Blue Anthems, "Better than the Original" and the classic show tune. Most of all though he aims to have some fun.
All the details on how to tune in are at www.coventryhospitalradio.org
20/12/2024
Visiting a loved one at UHCW this Christmas? Here's some information you may want to know👇
We have extended visiting hours on Christmas Day and Boxing Day from 11am to 8pm. Birth partners are welcome 24 hours a day as normal.
🅿From 10pm on Christmas Even to 8am on Boxing Day, parking is free at both University Hospital, Coventry and the Hospital of St. Cross, Rugby.
📺Patients will be able to access free bedside TV on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day.
Our priority is to protect patients and staff and, to help us do this, we ask that you do not attend if you have symptoms of flu, Covid-19 or other respiratory viruses, or if you have had any diarrhoea and/or vomiting within the previous 48 hours.
Join Richard Smith every Friday Afternoon for "My Favourite Song" It is 60 minutes of people from the entertainment world telling you all about their favourite songs. The show starts at 3pm and you can listen in for FREE across UHCW on your bedside unit or online at www.coventryhospitalradio.org
20/12/2024
Do you like 60's music? Join Gary Davies LIVE at 1pm for a totally 60's show where he looks back at the top 20's of this week as it was throughout the 60's decade on https://fastcast4u.com/player/coventry/ or through your bedside unit/Coventry Hospital Radio App.
20/12/2024
Join Kaydon Gaylor from 12pm with Midday Madness. It is 10 decades of music from the 1920s to the 2020s alongside your lunchtime news headlines. Listen in for FREE on your bedside unit across UHCW or online on our website or the Coventry Hospital Radio App
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Hospital radio in Coventry first started in 1971 when an American patient wanted to listen to Coventry City football matches and found out that it wasn't possible. When he got out of the hospital he set up a trust fund which paid for the landlines to connect the hospital to the Sky Blues old home ground of Highfield Road. All home matches were then broadcast Until the move from Highfield Road to the Ricoh Arena in 2005.
It was soon realised that the network used for broadcasting the games could also be used for a hospital radio circuit. This was the begining and in 1972 Hospital Radio in Coventry was establised. In the early 1970’s the station was known as Walsgrave Radio.
In 1980 the radio joined the Hospitals Voluntary Organisation and the name changed to Coventry Hospitals Broadcasting Service.
Many members soon joined, and a veriety of programmes were soon winging their way to patients in the numerous hospitals in Coventry. During the1980’s when local radio stations were springing up, there were a steady stream of volunteers eager to learn the skills of broadcasting so they could apply for jobs.
2003 saw the indroduction of a 24 hour broadcasting system and the use of new software packages, enabling us to broadcast direct from a computer to the patients. This system made it quicker to play a patients request since most of our CD music is held on the database.
In July 2006 a brand new hospital was opened and we moved out of a broom cupboard into a state of the art studio which broadcasts to about 1200 beds through bedside units.
In 2014 Coventry Hospital Radio as it’s now known started broadcasting online via it’s own website www.coventryhospitalradio.org as well as throughout Coventry University Hospital.
CHR currently has 37 volunteers, 30 of which have regular shows playing a mixture of Jazz, blues, Rock, Pop, World Music, Oldies and the music of today along with loads of requests for the patients.