Student Media

Student media at Sussex have included:newspapers, often weekly; magazines, a radio station, a television station, other printed publications, and online media.

• 237 magazine, produced during 1962/63.
• Wine Press, a Union-funded newspaper which existed for most of the 1960s
• Sussex Outlook, a short-lived 1960s paper.
• Unionews, the main Union publication, produced weekly for much of its existence. It briefly became Speakeasy and then SussExpress.
• The Badger, the present weekly newspaper, started in 1995.

After Unionews ceased production, around 1994 a colour-magazine called Sussed was produced with several editions per term. After the Badger was launched, it was followed by the similar magazine The Pulse, with one or two editions per term.

University Radio Falmer was started in 1976 and continues to this day, now on an online-only basis.

It is interesting to learn that Sussex had a campus TV station before it had a radio station. Starting in the last 1960s, using the Media Services TV studio in EDB (now Silverstone), a TV programme called In Camera was produced in one or more editions per term. Many rooms on campus (school common-rooms/tea bars, lecture theatres etc) were wired up via a Rediffusion network and by turning the control to channel G at the advertised time, you could watch In Camera. The TV station later adopted the name ITVS (“Internal Television Service”) and lasted for most of the 1970s compiling at least one show a week at times. The nature of ITVS changed over the decades, becoming UnionVideo as technology moved on and the heavy unmovable equipment at EDB was replaced by portable camcorders. UniTV is the current equivalent.