Jonty Usborne Explained

Jonty Usborne
Birth Name:Jonathan Usborne
Birth Date:17 July 1990
Birth Place:Brussels, Belgium
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Significant Awards:
  • 2013 Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement
  • 2014 Radio Academy Award for Best Technical Innovation
  • 2014 Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement
  • 2015 Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement

Jonathan "Jonty" Usborne (born 17 July 1990) is a producer and broadcast engineer at BBC News, and writer for The Independent, noted for having won awards such as the Student Radio Award for Best Technical Achievement and the Radio Academy Award for Best Technical Innovation. He is the first university student to have won in a technical category at the Radio Academy Awards., he is a software engineer for the BBC and the chair of the Student Radio Association. He also sits on the trustee board of the Radio Academy.

Life and career

Born in Brussels, raised in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, and educated at Haileybury & Imperial Service College, Usborne became involved in student radio in 2009, after commencing studying economics at the University of Bath.[1] After being elected in 2011 to the position of head of online media at University Radio Bath—the university's student radio station—he developed FRANCESCA, a station management system and console for the UK's Radioplayer application. Usborne submitted his system for consideration in the Best Technical Innovation category at the 2013 Student Radio Awards,[2] and was awarded gold that November.[3] [4] The judges described his application as "a real innovation".[5]

The following year, Usborne developed Responsive Radio, a "new approach to broadcasting", which incorporated ReQuester, an application he had developed that provided feedback to radio presenters about the musical preferences of their listeners.[6] He submitted Responsive Radio with the United Station Management application for consideration in the 2014 Radio Academy Awards.[7] [8] In May that year, Usborne became the first university student to win in a technical category at the Radio Academy Awards, when he received bronze in the Best Technical Innovation category, beating out competition from both Global Radio and the BBC.[9] [10] The judges described the entry as "a great example of technical innovation creating listener benefit", saying that it was "particularly impressive" that it had been created by "a student station with presumably little resource".[9] Responsive Radio and Unified Station Management were also nominated for the Arqiva TechCon Technical Excellence Award in September 2014.[11] In November, Usborne won gold for Responsive Radio in the Best Technical Achievement category at the 2014 Student Radio Awards.[12] [13]

In April 2014, Usborne was elected to the positions of station manager of University Radio Bath and deputy events officer of the Student Radio Association;[14] [15] [16] the following month, he set up and ran the first fully-visualised edition of the Student Radio Chart Show. In October, Usborne was named as one of the Radio Academy's "30 Under 30" of the year.[17] [18] In March 2015, he spoke at that year's Radiodays Europe conference in Milan on the future of radio,[19] [20] and in May was elected to the position of chair of the Student Radio Association.[21] In July he was elected to the trustee board of the Radio Academy,[22] [23] and in November was awarded gold for Best Technical Achievement for a third time at the 2015 Student Radio Awards.[24] After graduating from Bath in June 2016, Usborne joined the media playout department at the BBC as a graduate software engineer, and began developing their online web media player.

Awards and accolades

scope=colYearscope=colAwardscope=colCategoryscope=colDetailsscope=colResultscope=col
2013scope=rowStudent Radio AwardsBest Technical AchievementUK Radioplayer Console and Unified Station Management Application
2014scope=row rowspan=2Radio Academy AwardsBest Technical InnovationResponsive Radio and Unified Station Management
30 Under 30—
scope=rowArqiva TechCon AwardsTechnical ExcellenceResponsive Radio and Unified Station Management
scope=rowStudent Radio AwardsBest Technical AchievementResponsive Radio
2015scope=row rowspan=2Student Radio AwardsBest Technical AchievementVisualisation Rebuild and URB Digital
The Kevin Greening Creativity AwardVisualisation Rebuild and URB Digital

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: McElroy. Steven. 17 August 2009. At the Fringe: Who's in Charge Around Here?. live. Keller. Bill. Bill Keller. The New York Times. 0362-4331. 1645522. https://web.archive.org/web/20090820021024/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/at-the-fringe-whos-in-charge-around-here/. 20 August 2009.
  2. Web site: UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application – 2013 Student Radio Awards Submission for 'Best Technical Achievement' . Usborne . Jonty . July 2013 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20141216063536/http://www.uniradiobath.com/sra-tech.pdf . 16 December 2014 . live . 8 December 2014 .
  3. Web site: GOLD Best Technical Achievement. November 2013. Student Radio Awards. https://web.archive.org/web/20140226201505/http://www.studentradioawards.co.uk/winners/2oxqft6. 26 February 2014. dead. 8 December 2014.
  4. Web site: Best Technical Achievement goes to @1449amurb . 7 November 2013 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20141216053634/https://audioboom.com/boos/1713693-best-technical-achievement-goes-to-1449amurb . 16 December 2014 . live.
  5. Web site: Jonty Usborne – Producer. Developer. Radio Geek. . Usborne . Jonty . 2013 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20100819132931/http://jonty.us/ . 19 August 2010 . live . 8 December 2014 .
  6. Web site: Responsive Radio & Unified Station Management – 2014 Radio Academy Awards Submission for 'Best Technical Innovation' (E2) . Usborne . Jonty . 2014 . University Radio Bath. https://web.archive.org/web/20141214231712/http://uniradiobath.com/RAA14.pdf . 14 December 2014 . live . 14 December 2014 .
  7. Web site: The 2014 Nominees > Best Technical Innovation . April 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20140516034421/http://www.radioacademyawards.org/nominees/index.cfm?nominees_year=2014&winners_award_group_id=7&winners_award_category_id=29 . 16 May 2014 . live . 14 December 2014 .
  8. News: 11 April 2014 . Bath student radio shortlisted in national awards . live . . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223124303/http://article.wn.com/view/2014/04/11/Bath_student_radio_shortlisted_in_national_awards_University/ . 23 December 2014.
  9. Web site: The Winners 2014 > Best Technical Innovation . May 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20140514025823/http://www.radioacademyawards.org/winners/index.cfm?winners_year=2014&winners_award_group_id=7&winners_award_category_id=29 . 14 May 2014 . live . 14 December 2014 .
  10. News: 15 May 2014 . 1449AM URB wins bronze Radio Academy Award . live . . https://web.archive.org/web/20141223124306/http://article.wn.com/view/2014/05/15/1449AM_URB_wins_bronze_Radio_Academy_Award_University_of_Bat/ . 23 December 2014.
  11. Web site: Newsletter: Full Radio Festival line-up revealed! . Abramoff . Gloria . 19 September 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20140923054441/http://www.radioacademy.org/news/blog/2014/09/newsletter-full-radio-festival-line-up-revealed/ . 23 September 2014 . dead.
  12. Web site: URN 1350 wins top Student Radio Awards prize . Martin . Roy . 6 November 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20141117200535/http://radiotoday.co.uk/2014/11/urn-1350-wins-top-student-radio-awards-prize/ . 17 November 2014 . live.
  13. Web site: Media Awards: Student Radio Awards . 12 November 2014 . allmediascotland. https://web.archive.org/web/20141214231753/http://www.allmediascotland.com/broadcasting/74631/media-awards-student-radio-awards/ . 14 December 2014 . live.
  14. Web site: 'The ReelWorld Radio Academy 30 Under 30' list is revealed . 2 October 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20141216034610/http://www.recordoftheday.com/news-and-press/the-reelworld-radio-academy-30-under-30-list-is-revealed . 16 December 2014 . live.
  15. Web site: Election Results 2014 . 11 April 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111103/http://www.studentradio.org.uk/2014/04/election-results-2014/ . 24 September 2015 . live.
  16. Web site: Meet Your New 2014–2015 SRA Team. April 2014. Student Radio Association. London. 14 December 2014. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20180514140805/http://www.studentradio.org.uk/news/9047/. 14 May 2018. dmy-all.
  17. Web site: Meet The ReelWorld Radio Academy 30 Under 30 2014! . October 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20141216025628/http://www.radioacademy.org/30under30/the-reelworld-radio-academy-30-under-30-2014/ . 16 December 2014 . dead . 14 December 2014 .
  18. Web site: 30 under 30 revealed by the Radio Academy . 2 October 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20141004070108/http://radiotoday.co.uk/2014/10/30-under-30-revealed-by-the-radio-academy/ . 4 October 2014 . live.
  19. Web site: Meet the future – Three of ReelWorld 30 under 30 share their visions with BBC's Ben Cooper . 2015 . . Stockholm . https://web.archive.org/web/20150402183443/http://www.radiodayseurope.com/sessions/meet-future-three-reelworld-30-under-30-share-their-visions-bbcs-ben-cooper . 2 April 2015 . dead . 16 March 2015 .
  20. Web site: Radiodays Europe Addresses Modern Challenges . Moro . Davide . 5 January 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150721200049/http://www.radioworld.com/article/radiodays-europe-addresses-modern-challenges/275778 . 21 July 2015 . live.
  21. Web site: SRA AGM Election Results . McCabe . Harvey . 1 May 2015 . . London . https://archive.today/20240527084146/https://www.webcitation.org/6YYISZPy1?url=http://www.studentradio.org.uk/2015/05/sra-agm-election-results/ . 27 May 2024 . dead.
  22. Web site: Radio Academy's new Trustee Board revealed . Martin . Roy . 9 July 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150711123708/http://radiotoday.co.uk/2015/07/radio-academys-new-trustee-board-revealed/ . 11 July 2015 . live.
  23. Web site: New Trustees Announced . 9 July 2015 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20150721135134/http://www.radioacademy.org/news/blog/2015/07/new-trustees-announced-2/ . 21 July 2015 . dead.
  24. Web site: Student Radio Awards 2015 – full winners . Martin . Roy . 5 November 2014 . . London . https://web.archive.org/web/20151108220016/http://radiotoday.co.uk/2015/11/student-radio-awards-2015-full-winners/ . 8 November 2015 . live.

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