Sony Awards: The winners
So, we know that Chris Moyles was mocked - mocked - by being told that he's one of the very best broadcasters in Britain. But who else won Sony prizes?
Vanessa Feltz won speech personality of the year, although she beat Ian Wright on TalkSport to that one, so maybe not quite so unusual. Nick Ferrari won speech broadcaster (a subtly different category), which was more surprising
David Rodigan's Kiss programme won best specialist music show, Chris Evans took both music radio personality and the entertainment award, which seems to confirm the theory that Evans does his best work when he's not trying to be "Chris Evans off the telly".
Radio 3 was, as Gordon Smart pointed out, station of the year. Kerrang was best station broadcasting to an TSA of a million plus, somehow being specialist and general at the same time according to the judges (no, us neither.) BBC Hereford & Worcester won the station prize at the next tier down, and Beacon Radio in Shropshire picked up the best small station award.
Fun Kids - perhaps the most godawfully named radio staion in the entire world - picked up digital station of the year.
Music broadcaster of the year went to Mark Radcliffe, which is well-deserved. Although you have to feel sorry for Stuart Maconie who seems to have been inadvertently labelled a sidekick by the Sonys. Which isn't fair at all.
Winners in full:
The Music Programme Award
Words and Music – BBC Radio Arts and Radio 3 for Radio 3
The Specialist Music Programme Award
David Rodigan – Kiss Specialist Production Team for the Kiss Network
The Music Radio Personality of the Year
Chris Evans – BBC Radio 2
The Music Broadcaster of the Year
Mark Radcliffe – Smooth Operations for BBC Radio 2
The Music Special Award
Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth – BBC Radio 3
The Entertainment Award
Chris Evans Drivetime – BBC Radio 2
The Music Programming Award
Classic FM
The Drama Award
Mr Larkin's Awkward Day – BBC Radio Drama for Radio 4
The Sports Award
5 Live Olympic Breakfast – BBC News Programmes and BBC Sport for 5 Live
The Speech Award
Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode – BBC News for 5 Live
The News and Current Affairs Award
The World Today – BBC World Service News and Current Affairs for the World Service
The News Special Award
The Investigation: Never Too Old To Care – A Stark Production for BBC Radio Scotland
The News Journalist of the Year
Gavin Lee – BBC News for 5 Live
The Speech Radio Personality of the Year
Vanessa Feltz – BBC London 94.9
The Speech Broadcaster of the Year
Nick Ferrari – LBC 97.3
The Breakfast Show Award
5 Live Breakfast – BBC News for 5 Live
The Listener Participation Award
Electric Radio Brixton: Daily Show – Prison Radio Association and Electric Radio Brixton for Electric Radio Brixton
The Comedy Award
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! – Komedia Entertainment and Smooth Operations for BBC Radio 4
The Feature Award
Between The Ears: Staring At The Wall – BBC Radio Documentaries for Radio 3
The Interview Award
Feargal Keane interviews Lana Vandenberghe – Taking a Stand, BBC Radio Current Affairs for Radio 4
The Breaking News Award
The Rangers Riot – BBC Radio Manchester
The Live Event Coverage Award
Absolute Coldplay – Absolute Radio and TBI Media for Absolute Radio
The Community Award
A Sound Fix (Spots) – Prison Radio Association for Electric Radio Brixton
The Themed Programming Award
Family Life – BBC Hereford and Worcester
The Promo Award
Kiss The Planet – What Will You Do? – Kiss Imaging Team for the Kiss Network
The Competition Award
Facebuck – Galaxy Network Imaging for Galaxy (Manchester, Birmingham, Yorkshire and North East)
The Station Imaging Award
1Xtra
The Internet Programme Award
The Budgerigar and the Prisoner – Clifton Diocese.com
The Multiplatform Radio Award
Wimbledon – BBC Radio 5 Live Interactive for 5 Live
Station of the Year (Under 300,000 listeners)
Beacon Radio (Shropshire)
Station of the Year (300,000 – one million)
BBC Hereford and Worcester
Station of the Year (One million plus)
Kerrang 105.2
Digital Station of the Year
Fun Kids
UK Station of the Year
BBC Radio 3
3 comments:
Hello, I'd just like to say that Stuart Maconie was nominated for the same award as Mark Radcliffe so he had a chance of winning.
James
Judging from their 'This just in...' segment, it would appear Mr. Maconie is in fact a reader of XRRF. And you're absolutely right- Mark Radcliffe winning was well deserved.
The best moments of the night, having watched most of the webcast, aren't documented there - The New York Dolls presenting Radcliffe's award and taking minutes to get to the stage, a pissed Martin O'Neill going on about the Small Faces when he should have been doling out a special achievement prize, one of the award winners marvelling of another award presenter "I'm sitting near Gene Hunt! Fire up the Ferrari!"
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