CUR1350
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| City | Cambridge |
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| Broadcast area | University of Cambridge & ARU |
| Frequency | 97.2 MHz (FM), CURintheBAR cable, www.camfm.co.uk/player, |
| First air date | February 1979 |
| Format | Variety - Music & Speech (Music: rock/dance/indie/pop, Speech: news/arts/debates/comedy) |
| Owner | Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Student Radio Ltd |
| Website | www.camfm.co.uk |
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 on an FM frequency of 97.2 MHz and online. It currently broadcasts from Fitzwilliam College and Anglia Ruskin University after spending its first 32 years located in Churchill College. Cam FM used to hold the world record for the longest team broadcast marathon, at 76 hours.
In 2009, Cam FM was awarded an FM Community Licence by UK Broadcasting Regulator OFCOM. The station, then known at CUR1350, took on its current name and launched its FM service in October 2010. The station is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin Student Radio Ltd, which is also the FM licence holder.
Cam FM disaffiliated from the Student Radio Association in 2015, despite once winning Best Station at the Association's Student Radio Awards 2007 as CUR1350.
Cam FM is run by a committee of annually elected students and alumni of the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University.
In early 1979, 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.
Despite successfully applying for a number of short-term FM licences, CUR lacked a way of continuously broadcasting to the University's students, and so struggled to achieve widespread popularity.
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