Smoke Radio, the radio station for the University of Westminster, has won the Best Student Radio Station award at the Student Radio Awards 2015.
Big winners from the evening include URN, which took home four Gold awards, and University Radio Bath which got two along with Leeds Student Radio and URY. The rest of the winners won one each, they are Xpress Radio, Spark Sunderland, RaW 1251, Fly FM and BIRSt Radio.
The Student Radio Awards are supported by BBC Radio 1 and Global, and had special guests such as Ben Cooper, Ashley Tabor, Richard Park, Mark Goodier and Steve Lamaq giving out the awards.
Clara Amfo and Dave Berry hosted the show whilst Matt Edmondson and Kat Shoob were roaming around in the audience.
The full list of winners are below:
Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast, supported by British Council
Bronze – Three Peaks Challenge – Shock Radio
Silver – Elections Results Night – URY
Gold – The Welsh Varsity 2015 – Xpress Radio
Best Student Radio Chart Show, supported by BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra
Bronze – Leeds Student Radio
Silver – Fly FM
Gold – University Radio Bath
Best Technical Achievement, supported by BBC Digital
Bronze – OB1 – Universal Outside Broadcaster – URN
Silver – Roses mini OB Kits – URY
Gold – Visualisation Rebuild and URB Digital – University Radio Bath
Best Multiplatform Initiative, supported by Kiss
Bronze – Spark Election 2015 – Spark Sunderland
Silver – URN’s Student Leader Elections – URN
Gold – #SpiceUK! – Leeds Student Radio
Best Interview, supported by BBC Asian Network
Bronze – Mental Health Issues in Sport – Xpression FM
Silver – Michael does Wagner – Nerve Radio
Gold – Emma Pearce interviews Mike Buchanan – URN
Best Speech Programming, supported by BBC Radio 4 and 4 Extra
Bronze – Sea Burn – Spark Sunderland
Silver – Nick Slater – Podcast Series – URN
Gold – Both Sides of Dying – Spark Sunderland
Best Journalistic Programming, supported by BBC Newsbeat
Bronze – Hardeep Kaur Dhadda – Scratch Radio
Silver – Nick Slater – Podcast Series – URN\
Gold – The Pulse – URN
Best Sport Programming, supported by BBC Radio 5 live
Bronze – Boxing Varsity ’14 – Xpression FM
Silver – Varsity Basketball 2015 – URN
Gold – URN Sport – URN
Best Specialist Music Programming, supported by BBC Radio 6 Music
Bronze – Friday Nights On Fly FM with Ore
Silver – Urban Soul – Xpress Radio
Gold – Pop Up Folk – RaW 1251AM
Best Entertainment Programming , supported by Absolute Radio
Bronze – The Paul Jones Show- Shock Radio
Silver – Ben Bason- Forge Radio
Gold – Harry Whittaker – URY
Best Marketing and Station Sound, supported by Wise Buddah
Bronze – CSR
Silver – Leeds Student Radio
Gold – URN
Best Newcomer, supported by PPL
Bronze – Bethany Bartley-Jeacock – Leeds Student Radio
Silver – Louisa Fox – Leeds Student Radio
Gold – Rebecca Saw – URY
Best Female Presenter, supported by Global
Bronze – Laurie Charlesworth – Nerve Radio
Silver – Anna Louise Walter – CSR
Gold – Claire Duesbury – Fly FM
Best Male Presenter, supported by Global
Bronze – Harry Whittaker – URY
Silver – James Lewer – Fly FM
Gold – Sammy James – Leeds Student Radio
Kevin Greening Award, supported by North Media Talent
Bronze – Matt Curtis – Fly FM
Silver – Farsity – Xpress Radio
Gold – BIRSt.co.uk – BIRSt Radio
Best Student Radio Station, supported by BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra
Bronze – Spark Sunderland
Siver – URN
Gold – Smoke Radio
