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, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ London 94.9's Jono Coleman and Joanne Good won the Breakfast Programme Award and Nicola Rees of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Leeds hit Gold in the Reporter category.
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Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Northampton and Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Local Radio.
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They went to Margaret Hyde, the Managing Editor of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Essex, whose distinguished career in Local Radio began back in June 1973 as a journalist at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ 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 Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Deputy Director-General Mark Byford.
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Thirty-nine Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Local Radio stations and services put forward 256 entries for the awards, which are named in honour of Frank Gillard, the founder of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Local Radio.
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At the Gillard Awards evening, a Radio Academy Fellowship was conferred on the former Managing Editor of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ 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
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ London 94.9 - Jono And Jo Breakfast Show
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Gloucestershire - Mark Cummings at Breakfast
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Lincolnshire - The Breakfast Show with Rod Whiting
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Programme Presenter
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Northampton - Bernie Keith
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Sheffield - Toby Foster
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Suffolk - Nick Pandolfi
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Coverage of a News Story
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Shropshire - the Herceptin story
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ London 94.9 - Rolling news coverage 7 July 2005
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Nottingham - the Danielle Beccan murder trial
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Interactive Programme
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Oxford - Planet Speedway
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Norfolk - David Clayton's Norfolk Years
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Three Counties Radio - Treasure Quest
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Reporter
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Leeds - Nicola Rees
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Southern Counties Radio - Allison Ferns
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Sports Coverage
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Suffolk - Riding Roughshod
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Sheffield - Football Heaven - Derby Day Special
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Merseyside - FA Cup Final: Liverpool v West Ham
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Social Action Campaign
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Hereford & Worcester - Hearing Voices
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Cornwall - Sea Sense
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Lancashire - Rice Appeal
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Radio Feature
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Solent - Finding Dad
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Hereford & Worcester - George
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Northampton - The Nag's Head, Wollaston
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Outside Broadcast
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Manchester - The Bomb 10 Years On
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Berkshire - The Queen's 80th Birthday
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ London 94.9 - the 2006 London Marathon
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Religious Programming
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Devon - The Weekend Breakfast Show
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Lancashire - Joe Wilson - Lancashire Sunday
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Nottingham - Breakfast Compilation
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Radio Promotion
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Coventry & Warwickshire - Liz'll Fix It
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Bristol - Brunel 200
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Berkshire - The Reading FC Promotion Campaign
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Diversity
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Merseyside - Ticket To Ride - Journeys on a Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Bus
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ London 94.9 - Compilation
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Leicester - Telling Lives
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Outstanding Contribution To Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Local Radio
Paul Rowley - Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Regional Political Unit
Margaret Hyde - Managing Editor Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Essex
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Station Of The Year
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Manchester
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ London 94.9
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓƵ Radio Berkshire
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