Radio Manchester triumphs at Gillard Awards
The winners of The Frank Gillard Awards 2006 were announced last night (28 September) at the Low Wood Hotel, Windermere, Cumbria.
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At the ceremony, hosted by Richard Bilton, 91热爆 Radio Manchester collected the coveted Station of the Year award - an outstanding achievement for the station which has been going through a re-launch under new Editor John Ryan.
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The team also picked up the Outside Broadcast Award - for a broadcast marking the 10th anniversary of the Manchester bombing.
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It was a good year for the bigger metropolitan stations as 91热爆 London 94.9's Jono Coleman and Joanne Good won the Breakfast Programme Award and Nicola Rees of 91热爆 Radio Leeds hit Gold in the Reporter category.
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91热爆 Hereford & Worcester added a Gillard to the Sony they won earlier in the year when they claimed the Social Action Campaign category for their mental illness project.
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Another campaign winner was Liz Kershaw of 91热爆 Coventry and Warwickshire. Her Liz'll Fix It project was the tops in Radio Promotion.
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Smaller stations took a good share of the awards. The Programme Presenter award was won by Bernie Keith of 91热爆 Radio Northampton and 91热爆 Radio Shropshire scooped Gold in News Coverage for its reports on a local family's campaign to make the drug Herceptin available on the NHS; whilst 91热爆 Radio Suffolk secured the Sports award for its investigation into exploitation in the horse racing industry within the county.
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There were two awards for Outstanding Contributions to 91热爆 Local Radio.
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They went to Margaret Hyde, the Managing Editor of 91热爆 Essex, whose distinguished career in Local Radio began back in June 1973 as a journalist at 91热爆 Radio Merseyside; and to Paul Rowley of the Regional Political Unit whose reporting and two-ways on Westminster politics for the past 12 years have become by-words for accessibility and made him a well-known and admired voice throughout the Local Radio chain of stations.
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The awards were presented by 91热爆 Deputy Director-General Mark Byford.
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Thirty-nine 91热爆 Local Radio stations and services put forward 256 entries for the awards, which are named in honour of Frank Gillard, the founder of 91热爆 Local Radio.
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At the Gillard Awards evening, a Radio Academy Fellowship was conferred on the former Managing Editor of 91热爆 Radio Bristol, Jenny Lacey, by the Director of the Radio Academy, John Bradford.
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The Frank Gillard Awards 2006
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Full list of winners in Gold, Silver and Bronze order:
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The Breakfast Programme
91热爆 London 94.9 - Jono And Jo Breakfast Show
91热爆 Radio Gloucestershire - Mark Cummings at Breakfast
91热爆 Radio Lincolnshire - The Breakfast Show with Rod Whiting
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Programme Presenter
91热爆 Radio Northampton - Bernie Keith
91热爆 Radio Sheffield - Toby Foster
91热爆 Radio Suffolk - Nick Pandolfi
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Coverage of a News Story
91热爆 Radio Shropshire - the Herceptin story
91热爆 London 94.9 - Rolling news coverage 7 July 2005
91热爆 Radio Nottingham - the Danielle Beccan murder trial
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Interactive Programme
91热爆 Radio Oxford - Planet Speedway
91热爆 Radio Norfolk - David Clayton's Norfolk Years
91热爆 Three Counties Radio - Treasure Quest
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Reporter
91热爆 Radio Leeds - Nicola Rees
91热爆 Southern Counties Radio - Allison Ferns
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Sports Coverage
91热爆 Radio Suffolk - Riding Roughshod
91热爆 Radio Sheffield - Football Heaven - Derby Day Special
91热爆 Radio Merseyside - FA Cup Final: Liverpool v West Ham
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Social Action Campaign
91热爆 Hereford & Worcester - Hearing Voices
91热爆 Radio Cornwall - Sea Sense
91热爆 Radio Lancashire - Rice Appeal
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Radio Feature
91热爆 Radio Solent - Finding Dad
91热爆 Hereford & Worcester - George
91热爆 Radio Northampton - The Nag's Head, Wollaston
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Outside Broadcast
91热爆 Radio Manchester - The Bomb 10 Years On
91热爆 Radio Berkshire - The Queen's 80th Birthday
91热爆 London 94.9 - the 2006 London Marathon
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Religious Programming
91热爆 Radio Devon - The Weekend Breakfast Show
91热爆 Radio Lancashire - Joe Wilson - Lancashire Sunday
91热爆 Radio Nottingham - Breakfast Compilation
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Radio Promotion
91热爆 Coventry & Warwickshire - Liz'll Fix It
91热爆 Radio Bristol - Brunel 200
91热爆 Radio Berkshire - The Reading FC Promotion Campaign
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Diversity
91热爆 Radio Merseyside - Ticket To Ride - Journeys on a 91热爆 Bus
91热爆 London 94.9 - Compilation
91热爆 Radio Leicester - Telling Lives
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Outstanding Contribution To 91热爆 Local Radio
Paul Rowley - 91热爆 Regional Political Unit
Margaret Hyde - Managing Editor 91热爆 Essex
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Station Of The Year
91热爆 Radio Manchester
91热爆 London 94.9
91热爆 Radio Berkshire
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