Tune in to Coventry’s local hospital radio, FREE 24/7! Now available on Smart Speakers and the TuneIn 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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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
25/07/2025
If you’re due to attend University Hospital, please be aware that roadworks will be taking place on Clifford Bridge Road from Monday (28th July) as part of the Binley Cycleway project.
Adjustments are being made to the roundabouts leading to the Tesco superstore and the B4082. This phase will last 10 to 12 weeks.
While full road closures or diversions are not required, it’s possible there may be congestion so please allow extra time for your journeys.
25/07/2025
25/07/2025
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 www.coventryhospitalradio.org or through your bedside unit/Coventry Hospital Radio App.
25/07/2025
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
25/07/2025
Join Harry Jones from 10am for an hour & half of classic hits from the 70's/80's and 90's. The tunes will be non stop and it will be like your in the fast lane of music. Listen in at www.coventryhospitalradio.org or FREE on your bedside unit across UHCW NHS Trust.
25/07/2025
Join Clive Brookes from 9am on his castaway island where each week he talks with a different guest about their life and the music that has a special meaning to them. Listen in at www.coventryhospitalradio.org
25/07/2025
Resident Doctors have begun five days of industrial action that will last until 7am on Wednesday.
We have been working hard to put plans in place to protect patient safety and minimise disruption. Unless you have been contacted by us, please continue to attend for booked appointments or procedures.
Our Emergency Department will be busy but we are still here to provide emergency care when you need it. When the situation is not an emergency, please contact NHS 111.
Join Julie Hughes Rowlands this morning from 8am 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." Listen in at www.coventryhospitalradio.org or for FREE on your bedside unit.
24/07/2025
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.
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History of CHR
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.
