Sony Radio Academy Awards
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The Sony Radio Academy Awards (the Sonys), started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry.[1] They were run by ZAFER Associates but are now under the control of The Radio Academy. The categories for the awards are decided by an annual committee, with the aim to include all the main genres from contemporary music, news and speech through to radio drama, comedy and sport, and not discriminating against station size, or niche categories.
The 30th Sony Awards were held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Monday 14 May 2012,[2] with 3 awards presented per category (Gold, Silver and Bronze).
2012 Gold Award Winners
- Breakfast Show of the Year (station with a potential audience of 10 million-plus) - KISS Breakfast with Rickie (Heywood Williams), Melvin (O'Doom) and Charlie (Hedges)
- Breakfast Show of the Year (station with a potential audience of less than 10 million) - Real Radio Breakfast with Gary (Philipson) and Lisa (Shaw)
- Best Music Programme - Fearne Cotton (BBC Radio 1)
- Best Specialist Music Programme - David Rodigan (BBC Radio 2)
- Best Entertainment Programme - Beryl and Betty (Beryl Smith, Betty Renwick) (BBC Radio Humberside)
- Best Speech Programme - Stephen Nolan (BBC Radio 5 Live)
- Best Sport Programme - (Richard) Keys and (Andy) Gray (talkSPORT)
- Best News & Current Affairs - 5 Live Drive with Peter Allen and Aasmah Mir (BBC Radio 5 Live)
- Best Breaking News Coverage - PM (BBC Radio 4)
- Music Radio Personality of the Year - Chris Evans (BBC Radio 2)
- Music Broadcaster of the Year - Jools Holland (BBC Radio 2)
- Speech Radio Personality of the Year - Danny Baker (BBC Radio 5 Live)
- Speech Broadcaster of the Year - Victoria Derbyshire (BBC Radio 5 Live)
- News Journalist of the Year - Mike Thomson (BBC Radio 4)
- Best Interviewer - Eddie Mair interviews Julie Nicholson (BBC Radio 4)
- Station Programmer of the Year - Andy Roberts (KISS)
- Best Station Imaging - BBC Radio 1Xtra
- Station of the Year (with a potential audience of up to 300,000) - KL.FM 96.7
- Station of the Year (with a potential audience of 300,000 - 1 million) - 107.6 Juice FM
- Station of the Year (with a potential audience of 1 million-plus) - Radio City 96.7
- National UK Station of the Year - BBC Radio 6 Music
- Sony Gold Award - Nicholas Parsons
- Special Award - Classic FM
References
- ^ Sean Street (30 August 2009). The A to Z of British Radio. Scarecrow Press. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-8108-6847-2 [Amazon-US | Amazon-UK]. Retrieved 25 March 2012.
- ^ http://www.radioacademyawards.org/news/
