Category: Radio; BBC
Date: 11.04.2006
Printable version
BBC social affairs correspondent, Richard
Bilton is the latest in a long line of well known BBC Local Radio alumni to host the Frank Gillard Awards which celebrate the best of BBC Local Radio.
The coveted miniature busts of the founder of BBC Local Radio will be presented to the winners of the seventh awards by BBC Director-General, Mark
Thompson.
Last year's Station of the Year award-winner, BBC Radio
Cumbria, has chosen this year's venue - the Low Wood Hotel at Lake Windermere. The ceremony will take place on Thursday 28 September 2006.
There are 14 categories in this year's Frank Gillard
Awards:
- Breakfast Programme
- Programme Presenter
- Coverage
of a News Story
- Interactive Programme
- Reporter
- Sports Coverage
- Social Action Campaign
- Radio Feature
- Outside Broadcast
- Diversity
- Radio Promotion
- Religious Programming
- Station of the Year
- Outstanding Contribution to
BBC Local Radio
The 39 judges have been recruited from the ranks of active broadcasters and editors in local and national radio, along with major figures from the media and advisory bodies. Most of the judges have strong connections to BBC Local Radio.
Judges include:
- Craig Doyle, Grandstand presenter
- Sophie
Raworth, BBC News presenter
- Carolyn Quinn, presenter of
the Today programme on BBC
Radio 4
- Nina Nannar, ITN media and arts
correspondent
- Dotun
Adebayo, BBC Radio Five Live presenter
- Mary
Rhodes, Eleanor
Oldroyd and Gordon Farquhar, BBC
Sport broadcasters
- John
Bradford, Director
of the Radio Academy
- Ana Leddy, Head of RTE
Radio 1
- Diane
Reid from the Community Media Organisation
Chris Van Schaick, Chairman of the Awards, said: "In 2005 the Frank Gillard Awards
attracted 262 entries from 41 radio stations and services.
"Over the last seven
years, the awards ceremony has earned its place in our calendar. It's proved
to be a great opportunity to celebrate the best in BBC Local Radio and for
our stations to learn from each other."
All BBC Local Radio stations and services are invited to enter the awards, which are highly regarded within the radio industry. The deadline for entries is Friday 30 June.
The awards are named in honour of the founder of BBC Local Radio in England, Frank Gillard, who died in 1998.
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