The Frank Gillard Awards 2004 have been evenly distributed in contrast
with previous years where stations like Derby and Leeds dominated.
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The 14 awards this year were shared by 13 stations with only 91Èȱ¬
Radio Kent gaining more than one, taking Gold for its Breakfast
and Outside Broadcast entries.
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The awards, which celebrate the very best of 91Èȱ¬ Local Radio, were
presented by the Director-General of the 91Èȱ¬, Mark Thompson,
at a ceremony held at Birmingham's International Convention Centre last
night (14 October).
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Solent was named Station of the Year winner
repeating its triumph from 2000 in the inaugural Frank Gillard Awards.
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91Èȱ¬ Essex missed out in the Outside Broadcast category
for its recreation of Sixties pirate radio but its programme All At
Sea about the early days of the Essex pirate stations scooped the Gold
award in the Feature category.
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Cleveland is celebrating after pulling off
an amazing double this year. Its Gold in the Coverage of a News Story
category for the State Visit of President Bush repeated the programme's
triumph in the Event category at the national Sony Awards.
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Nick Pandolfi from rural 91Èȱ¬ Radio Suffolk triumphed
over 91Èȱ¬ London's Vanessa Feltz in the Programme Presenter category
but 91Èȱ¬ London's Ben Wilkins guaranteed
a Gold for the metropolitan station for his Reporter entry.
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The Outstanding Contribution to 91Èȱ¬ Local Radio award went to Peter
Adamson of 91Èȱ¬ Radio Humberside.
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Peter was a contributor on the station in the late Seventies when he
was a teacher, but then went on to present a weekly jazz programme across
ten northern stations and to become the station's key mid-morning presenter.
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He has now presented more than 4,000 programmes for the station, but
is stepping down from his regular Soapbox phone-in later this month.
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Before the awards ceremony 91Èȱ¬ Local Radio's first and only Controller,
Michael Barton, was honoured with the fellowship of
the Radio Academy by Helen Boaden, 91Èȱ¬ Director of News and Chair of
the Radio Academy.
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Speaking at the ceremony, Mark Thompson congratulated the winners and
said: "91Èȱ¬ Local Radio is a public service cornerstone, a place where
the 91Èȱ¬'s relationship with communities up and down the country comes
to life."
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Judges for this year's awards included past and present Local Radio
broadcasters along with leading journalists, managers and regulators
from both public service and commercial radio.
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The awards are named in honour of the founder of 91Èȱ¬ Local Radio in
England, Frank Gillard, who died in 1998.
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Full list of winners (in Gold, Silver and Bronze order):
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The Breakfast Programme
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Kent - Good Morning Kent
91Èȱ¬ GMR - Greater Manchester's Breakfast
91Èȱ¬ WM - The Adrian Goldberg Breakfast Show
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Programme Presenter
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Suffolk - Nick Pandolfi
91Èȱ¬ London 94.9 - Vanessa Feltz
91Èȱ¬ Radio Solent - Julian Clegg
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Coverage of a New Story
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Cleveland - The State Visit of President Bush
91Èȱ¬ Radio Humberside - Soham murders and the Bichard Inquiry
91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham - The murder of Marian Bates
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Interactive Programme
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham - Groundswell: No Room for Students?
91Èȱ¬ Radio Leeds - It's Your Call
91Èȱ¬ Radio Stoke - Inside Lives
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Reporter
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91Èȱ¬ London 94.9 - Ben Wilkins
91Èȱ¬ Radio Cambridgeshire - Max Rushden
91Èȱ¬ Radio Lincolnshire - Scott Dalton
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Sports Coverage
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Merseyside - I Don't Know What It Is But I Love It - The
Story Of Rome '84
91Èȱ¬ Radio Cleveland - The Welsh Weekender (Silver)
91Èȱ¬ Radio Humberside - Hull City: Promotion to Division Two (Bronze)
91Èȱ¬ Radio Oxford - British Speedway GP 2004 (Bronze)
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Social Action Campaign
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Gloucestershire - Bio-Diversity Day
91Èȱ¬ Radio Devon - The Chestnut Appeal Story
91Èȱ¬ Radio Merseyside - Taking Care on 91Èȱ¬ Radio Merseyside
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Radio Feature
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91Èȱ¬ Essex - All At Sea
91Èȱ¬ Three Counties Radio - The Stephen Rhodes Consumer Programme
91Èȱ¬ Radio York - One Soldier's Story
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Outside Broadcast
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Kent - The Drive Show D-Day OB
91Èȱ¬ Radio Leeds - The Funeral of John Charles
91Èȱ¬ Essex - Pirate Radio Essex
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Religious Programming
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Leeds
91Èȱ¬ Radio Gloucestershire
91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham
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Radio Promotion
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Devon - Test the County
91Èȱ¬ Radio Lincolnshire - Proud To Be A Yellowbelly
91Èȱ¬ Radio Solent - D-Day Sixty Years On
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Diversity
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Stoke
91Èȱ¬ Radio Nottingham
91Èȱ¬ London 94.9
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Outstanding Contribution to 91Èȱ¬ Local Radio
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Peter Adamson - 91Èȱ¬ Radio Humberside
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Station of the Year
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91Èȱ¬ Radio Solent
91Èȱ¬ Essex
91Èȱ¬ London 94.9
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