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Frank
Gillard Awards - BBC's smaller stations prove small is beautiful
This
year's Frank Gillard Awards ceremony demonstrates that size doesn't
always matter in the radio industry, with many of the major awards
being taken home by the BBC's smaller stations.
The
awards, which celebrate the very best of BBC Local Radio, were presented
by the Director-General of the BBC, Greg Dyke, at a special ceremony
hosted by the BBC Asian Network star presenter, Sonia Deol, and
held at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television
in Bradford last night (6 October 2003).
It
was BBC Radio Derby's night at the awards ceremony.
The station, which did not achieve a single nomination at last year's
awards, took three gold awards this year in the Coverage of a News
Story, Breakfast Programme and Sports Coverage categories (see below
for a full list of winners).
BBC
Radio Suffolk took the prestigious Station of the Year
award and scored gold with its Interactive category entry: Rachel
Sloane in the Afternoon.
BBC
Radio Shropshire, another small station, beat 31 other
entries to win gold in the Voices category. New for this year, the
category featured the best of the BBC Local Radio wide Voices project
which encouraged groups and communities seldom heard on the local
media to voice their interests and concerns.
Speaking
at the dinner after the awards ceremony, Greg Dyke congratulated
the winners and said: "Throughout its 35 year history, BBC
Local Radio has been an innovator but at last the penny is dropping
about Local Radio being a central pillar of the BBC."
He
went on to pinpoint areas in which BBC Local Radio has excelled:
"In the last few years, BBC Local Radio has really cemented
its reputation as a catalyst for social action broadcasting - both
your locally generated projects and your big central campaigns."
BBC
Radio Leeds, which dominated the Awards last year, added
to its haul of Gillards by taking gold in the Outside Broadcast
category for its live broadcast of the Queen's visit to Harewood
House.
The
Outstanding Contribution to Local Radio Award was won by the Radioman
Training Team which was responsible for training all staff during
BBC Local Radio's transition from analogue to digital radio equipment.
Supporting 40 stations they trained 2,500 staff in 6,500 training
sessions.
There
was a special commendation for Peter Grant, one
of the small team from the BBC's General News Service (GNS) which
reported the war in Iraq for all the local stations.
There
were 14 different categories in this year's competition, and the
judges included past and present local radio broadcasters along
with leading journalists, managers and regulators from both public
service and commercial radio.
The
2003 Awards attracted a record number of entries from a record number
of entrants - 313 entries from 44 BBC Local Radio stations and services.
The
annual Frank Gillard Awards were launched in 2000 in memory of the
war correspondent and founder of BBC Local Radio.
Their
aim is to recognise achievements and encourage excellence in the
programming at BBC Local Radio stations across England.
The
following are the Frank Gillard Awards 2003 winners in gold, silver
and bronze order:
The
Breakfast Programme
BBC
Radio Derby - Andy Whittaker's Breakfast Show
BBC
Radio Kent - Good Morning Kent
BBC
Radio Gloucestershire - The Breakfast Show – Storms
Programme
Presenters
BBC
Radio Newcastle - Ian Robinson and Paul Wappat
BBC
Radio Sheffield - Toby Foster
BBC
London 94.9 - Danny Baker
Coverage
of a News Story
BBC
Radio Derby - Royal Pageant Story
BBC
Radio Newcastle - Capital of Culture Bid
BBC
Three Counties Radio - The Luton Town Takeover
Interactive
Programme
BBC
Radio Suffolk - Rachel Sloane in the Afternoon
BBC
Radio Gloucestershire - The Dozy Parker
BBC
Radio Leeds - It's Your Call
Reporter
BBC
Radio Nottingham - Jeremy Ball
BBC
Radio Leeds - Spencer Stokes
BBC
Radio Merseyside - Shari Vahl
Sports
Coverage
BBC
Radio Derby - Derby's First World Boxing Champion
BBC
Radio Solent - When the Saints Marched to Cardiff
BBC
Radio Oxford - 2003 British Speedway Grand Prix
BBC
Radio Sheffield - Sunday Sport (Ice Hockey)
(Derby
won gold, Solent and Oxford joint silver, and Sheffield, bronze)
Social
Action Campaign
BBC
Radio Sheffield - BBC Radio Sheffield Hospice Appeal
BBC
Radio Suffolk - The Hollies
BBC
Radio Bristol with Special Features Unit - Hitting Home
Radio
Feature
BBC
Radio Cleveland - The Daisy Chain Dream
BBC
Radio Cornwall - Launceston Car Park
BBC
Three Counties Radio - Homeless in Bedford
Outside
Broadcast
BBC
Radio Leeds - The Queen's Visit to Harewood House
BBC
Radio Derby - Ashbourne Royal Shrovetide
BBC
Radio Lincolnshire - Dambusters Day
Voices
BBC
Radio Shropshire - Woodside
BBC
Radio Lancashire - Voices in Burnley
BBC
Radio Kent - Romany Voices
Diversity
BBC
GMR
BBC
Radio Derby
BBC
Southern Counties Radio
Radio
Promotion
BBC
Radio Devon - The BBC Radio Devon Chestnut Appeal
BBC
Radio Cleveland - Middlesbrough FC Commentary Campaign
BBC
Radio Kent - Radio Kent Charity Appeal
Station
of the Year
BBC
Radio Suffolk
BBC
Radio Leeds
BBC
Radio Newcastle
Outstanding
Contribution to BBC Local Radio
The
Radioman Training Team
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