The Sony Radio Academy Awards – the biggest awards night in the radio calendar – have taken place in London.
The BBC won 22 Golds whilst commercial radio took home 13, with the Guardian and a prison radio station taking one each.
The full list is below:
Sony DAB ‘Rising Star’ Award
Broken Hearts DJs – Jazz FM
Clara Amfo – KISS
Frank McWeeny – French Radio London
Luke Franks – Fun Kids
Phil Taggart – BBC Radio 1/BBC Radio Ulster
Winner: Luke Franks – Fun Kids
Station of the Year (under 300,000)
Gold: KL.FM
Nominee: Moray Firth Radio
Nominee: Garrison FM
Best Breaking News Coverage
Gold: PM – BBC Radio 4
Silver: August Riots – BBC News for BBC Radio 5 live
Bronze: Gary Speed’s Death – Somethin’ Else & BBC Radio Sport for BBC Radio 5 live
Nominee: The Riots – GMG Radio North West News Team for Real Radio North West
Nominee: Birmingham Riots – Free Radio Birmingham (brmb)
Best Community Programming
Gold: Face To Face – Prison Radio Association for National Prison Radio
Silver: Handle with Care – BBC Radio Berkshire and Company Paradiso for BBC Radio Berkshire
Bronze: Behind Bars – Prison Radio Association for National Prison Radio
Nominee: Lonely At Christmas – BBC Radio Oxford
Nominee: Cocaine Unwrapped – – GMG Radio North West News Team for Real Radio North West
Best News and Current Affairs Programme
Gold: 5 live Drive – BBC News for BBC Radio 5 live
Silver: SITREP – BFBS
Bronze: The Sunday Roast with Caroline – 106 JACKfm Oxfordshire
Nominee: The World At One – BBC Radio 4
Nominee: Radio 1 Newsbeat – BBC Radio 1
Best Sports Programme
Gold: Keys & Gray – talkSPORT
Silver: Rock ‘N’ Roll Football – Survival Sunday – USP Content for Absolute Radio
Bronze: Kicking Off With Colin Murray – BBC Radio Sport for BBC Radio 5 live
Nominee: Gerr’um On Side – UTV Media for 102.4 Wish FM and 107.2 Wire FM
Nominee: My Sporting Life – talkSPORT
Best Music Feature/Special/Documentary
Gold: Feeling Good – The Nina Simone Story Part 1 – Sue Clark Productions for BBC Radio 2
Silver: Pete Townshend – Before I Get Old – Just Radio Ltd for BBC Radio 2
Bronze: Killing Bono – A Life In The Shadow of Superstardom – GMG Radio for Real Radio and Real Radio XS
Nominee: The Music That Melted – BBC Radio Documentaries for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: Radio 1 Stories – The Amen Break – BBC Radio 1
Best News Feature/Special/Documentary
Gold: Child of Ardoyne – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 3
Silver: Assignment: Blasphemy – A Matter of Life and Death – BBC World Service News & Current Affairs for BBC World Service
Bronze: The Kill Factor – BBC Radio Current Affairs for BBC World Service
Nominee: Lives in a Landscape: The Hackney Riots – BBC Radio Documentaries for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: Filesharing Special – BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat
Best Feature/Special/Documentary
Gold: Walking With The Wounded – GMG Radio North West News Team for Smooth Radio
Silver: Spike Milligan – The Serious Poet – White Pebble Media for BBC Radio 4
Bronze: The Mousetrap and Me – BBC Radio Wales
Nominee: The Underwater Gendarme – BBC Wales for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: The Five Ages of Brandreth – BBC Political Programmes for BBC Radio 4
Best Comedy
Gold: Mark Steel’s In Town – BBC Radio Comedy for BBC Radio 4
Silver: Another Case Of Milton Jones – Pozzitive Television for BBC Radio 4
Bronze: Down The Line – Down The Line Productions for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: Adam & Joe – BBC Radio 6 Music
Nominee: The National Theatre of Brent’s Iconic Icons – CPL Productions for BBC Radio 4
Best Drama
Gold: On It – Woolyback Productions for BBC Radio 4
Silver: Use It or Lose It – Falling Tree Productions for BBC Radio 3
Bronze: A Tale of Two Cities – BBC Radio Drama London for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: A Time to Dance – Sweet Talk Productions for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: North by Northamptonshire – BBC Radio Comedy for BBC Radio 4
Best Use of Multiplatform/Social Media
Gold: Now Playing@6Music – Somethin’ Else for BBC Audio & Music Interactive and BBC Radio 6 Music
Silver: The Classic FM Hall Of Fame – Classic FM
Bronze: BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra homepages – BBC Audio & Music Interactive for BBC Radio 1
Nominee: Heart Breakfast with James & Charlie – Heart Kent
Nominee: Absolute 80s – Absolute Radio
Best Live Event Coverage
Gold: The Royal Wedding – BBC World Service News Programmes for BBC World Service
Silver: Danny Wallace’s Naked Breakfast – Xfm
Bronze: Real Radio Live @ Take That – Real Radio North East
Nominee: England No. 1 Test Side – BBC Radio Sport for 5 live sports extra & BBC Radio 4 Longwave
Nominee: Choice at The Notting Hill Carnival – Choice Programming for Choice FM
Best Single Promo/Commercial
Gold: Geoff Lloyd’s Hometime Show – The Complaints – Absolute Radio
Silver: The Day Before 9/11 – BBC Radio 4 Presentation for BBC Radio 4
Bronze: Campese on Sunday Morning – talkSPORT Creative for talkSPORT
Nominee: Sherlock Returns – BBC Radio Cross Trails for BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5 live and BBC Radio 6 Music
Nominee: Beat The Star – Global Radio for Heart West Midlands
Best Specialist Music Programme
Gold: David Rodigan – Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 2
Silver: The Ronnie Wood Show – Somethin’ Else for Absolute Radio
Bronze: Another Country with Ricky Ross – BBC Radio Scotland
Nominee: Friday Night Is Music Night – BBC Radio 2
Nominee: Music: Response – Xfm
Best Station Imaging
Gold: BBC Radio 1Xtra
Silver: Capital Network
Bronze: BBC Radio 2
Nominee: KISS & ReelWorld Productions for KISS
Nominee: JACKfm Oxfordshire
Best Competition
Gold: 2 Strangers And A Wedding – 106 JACKfm Oxfordshire & glide FM 107.9 Oxfordshire
Silver: Christian O’Connell’s Early Morning Game – Absolute Radio
Bronze: Danny Wallace’s QuizFace – Xfm
Nominee: Christmas is Cancelled – Pirate FM
Nominee: Superstar DJ – BBC Radio 1
Best Entertainment Programme
Gold: Beryl and Betty – BBC Radio Humberside
Silver: Adam & Joe – BBC Radio 6 Music
Frank Skinner – Avalon for Absolute Radio
Nominee: Boogie and Dingo’s Big Saturday Show – Bauer Radio Scotland
Nominee: Real Radio Breakfast with Dixie & Gayle – Real Radio Yorkshire
Best Music Programme
Gold: Fearne Cotton – BBC Radio 1
Silver: In:Demand Scotland – Bauer Radio Scotland
Bronze: In Tune – BBC Radio 3
Nominee: Steve Lamacq – BBC Radio 6 Music
Nominee: Michael Bublé – Magic 105.4
The 2012 Special Award
Classic FM
Best Internet Programme
Gold: Science Weekly: Sounds of the Space Shuttle – An Acoustic Tribute – The Guardian
Silver: Days In The Life – Guardian News & Media for The Guardian
Bronze: Do The Right Thing – Fuzz Productions Ltd for British Comedy Guide
Nominee: Front Room Fringe – Forth One
Nominee: Mindcast: Bipolar – Matt Wilkinson in association with Wise Buddah Creative for Mind
Best Speech Programme
Gold: Stephen Nolan – BBC News for BBC Radio 5 live
Silver: Gardeners’ Question Time – Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 4
Bronze: World Have Your Say – BBC World Service News Programmes for BBC World Service
Nominee: Ken Livingstone and David Mellor – LBC 97.3
Nominee: Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review – Somethin’ Else for BBC Radio 5 live
Music Radio Personality of the Year
Gold: Chris Evans – BBC Radio 2
Silver: Lauren Laverne – BBC Radio 6 Music
Bronze: Christian O’Connell – Absolute Radio
Nominee: Huey Morgan – BBC Radio 2 &Wise Buddah Creative for BBC Radio 6 Music
Nominee: Gemma Cairney – BBC Radio 1Xtra
Best Use of Branded Content
Gold: Danny Wallace’s Naked Breakfast – Global Radio for Xfm
Silver: The KISS Chosen One with Blackberry – KISS
Bronze: Car Wars – Real Radio Yorkshire
Nominee: The Power of Dreams on Classic FM with Honda – Classic FM
Nominee: Rock ‘N’ Roll Football with Sky Sports – Absolute Radio
Music Broadcaster of the Year
Gold: Jools Holland – BBC Radio 2
Silver: Sean Rowley – BBC Radio Kent
Bronze: Mistajam – BBC Radio 1Xtra
Nominee: Tom Service – BBC Radio 3 for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 & BBC Radio 6 Music
Nominee: Mark Radcliffe – Smooth Operations (Productions) Ltd for BBC Radio 6 Music & BBC Radio 2
Speech Radio Personality of the Year
Gold: Danny Baker – Campbell Davison Media for BBC Radio 5 live
Silver: Alan Brazil – talkSPORT
Bronze: Alan Robson – Metro Radio
Nominee: Richard Bacon – BBC News for BBC Radio 5 live
Nominee: Toby Foster – BBC Radio Sheffield
Breakfast Show of the Year (under 10 million)
Gold: Real Radio Breakfast with Gary and Lisa – Real Radio North East
Silver: BBC Essex Breakfast – BBC Essex
Bronze: Adam Tomlinson at Breakfast – BBC Radio York
Nominee: Juice FM Breakfast with Adam and Leanne – 107.6 Juice FM
Nominee: Porridge – Prison Radio Association for National Prison Radio
Best Promotional/Advertising Campaign
Gold: Wimbledon 2011 – Fresh Air Production for BBC Radio Cross Trails for BBC Radio 2, 5 live & Local Radio
Silver: The Rugby World Cup 2011 – talkSPORT Creative for talkSPORT
Bronze: Britain Loves Radio – Radio Advertising Bureau for Commercial Radio
Nominee: Red Nose Day – Fresh Air Production for BBC Radio Cross Trails for BBC Radio 1, 2 & Local Radio
Nominee: In The Mind of a Car Thief – Eagle Radio & Eagle Extra for UKRD Group
Speech Broadcaster of the Year
Gold: Victoria Derbyshire – BBC News for BBC Radio 5 live
Silver: Jeremy Vine – BBC Radio 2
Bronze: Evan Davis – BBC News for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: Nick Ferrari – LBC 97.3
Nominee: Jenni Murray – BBC General Factual for BBC Radio 4
Breakfast Show of the Year (10 million plus)
Gold: KISS Breakfast with Rickie, Melvin and Charlie – KISS
Silver: The Christian O’Connell Breakfast Show – Absolute Radio
Bronze: The Chris Evans Breakfast Show – BBC Radio 2
Nominee: Heart Breakfast (London) – London’s Heart
Nominee: 5 live Breakfast – BBC News for BBC Radio 5 live
News Journalist of the Year
Gold: Mike Thomson – BBC News for BBC Radio 4
Silver: Metro Radio News Team – Metro Radio
Bronze: 106 JACKfm News Team – 106 JACKfm Oxfordshire
Nominee: John Sudworth – BBC Radio 4
Nominee: GMG Radio North West News Team – Smooth Radio, Real Radio & Real XS
Station Programmer of the Year
Gold: Andy Roberts – KISS
Nominee: Clive Dickens – Absolute Radio
Nominee: Moz Dee – talkSPORT
Best Interview
Gold: Eddie Mair interviews Julie Nicholson – BBC Radio 4
Silver: Jeremy Vine interviews Helena Tym – BBC Radio 2
Bronze: Victoria Derbyshire interviews Ken Clarke – BBC News for BBC Radio 5 live
Nominee: Mark Lawson interviews Ricky Gervais – BBC Radio Arts for BBC Radio 4
Nominee: Andrew Peach interviews Anne Diamond – BBC Radio Berkshire
Station of the Year (300,000 – 1 million)
Gold: 107.6 Juice FM
Nominee: BBC Radio Berkshire
Nominee: Free Radio Coventry & Warwickshire (Mercia)
Station of the Year (1 million plus)
Gold: Radio City 96.7
Nominee: BBC World Service
Nominee: BBC Radio 4 Extra
UK Station of the Year
Gold: BBC Radio 6 Music
Nominee: BBC Radio 2
Nominee: Kerrang! Radio
The 2012 Gold Award
Nicholas Parsons
Posted on Monday, May 14th, 2012 at 10:47 pm by RadioToday UK