Category: BBC
Date: 07.09.2004
Printable version
The nominations
for this year's Frank Gillard Awards are announced today with
BBC London 94.9 and BBC Radio Nottingham leading the chase
for honours with four nominations each.
Twenty of the 41 eligible stations and services have achieved nominations
for the annual awards that celebrate the very best of BBC Local Radio.
With a high standard of entries across the board, BBC Radio Leeds,
BBC Radio Solent and BBC Essex have three nominations
apiece.
The prestigious Station of the Year category sees three southern stations
fighting it out: BBC Essex, BBC London 94.9 and BBC Radio Solent.
The Outstanding Contribution to Local Radio award reveals
an astonishing record of service.
Nominations include a man who has been reporting on
football for 36 years; a station engineer and IT specialist who has
chalked up 42 years with the BBC; a presenter who has been broadcasting
daily for more than 30 years; and a Local Radio Editor...
For the programme presenter award, Vanessa Feltz of BBC London
94.9 takes on Julian Clegg of BBC Radio Solent and Nick Pandolfi
from BBC Radio Suffolk.
In the Breakfast Programme category, BBC Radio Kent, which was
the runner up last year, hopes to do one better in 2004 against the
big stations GMR and BBC WM.
BBC Radio Leeds defends last year's Outside Broadcast
win, vying with BBC Essex and BBC Radio Kent for the honour.
BBC Radio Devon - another Gold winner from 2003 - is seeking
to keep possession of the Radio Promotion title but will be pressed
for top slot by BBC Radio Lincolnshire and BBC Radio Solent.
BBC Radio Cleveland - which won Gold in the Sony Awards in May
for its coverage of the State Visit of President Bush - is hoping to
repeat that triumph in the Coverage of a News Story category where it
goes up against two stations reporting on high profile murders: BBC
Radio Humberside on Soham and the Bichard Inquiry, and BBC Radio
Nottingham on the murder of Marian Bates.
Gold, Silver and Bronze winners will be announced on Thursday 14 October
in an awards ceremony at Birmingham's International Convention Centre.
Jon Sopel of BBC News is the host and he will
be joined by Mark Thompson, Director-General of the BBC, to present
the coveted miniature busts of Frank Gillard to the Gold winners.
The awards are named in honour of the founder of BBC Local Radio in
England, Frank Gillard, who died in 1998.
The Frank Gillard Awards
2004 - nominations
The Breakfast Programme
BBC GMR Greater Manchester's Breakfast
BBC Radio Kent Good Morning Kent
BBC WM The Adrian Goldberg Breakfast Show
Programme Presenter
BBC London 94.9 Vanessa Feltz
BBC Radio Solent Julian Clegg
BBC Radio Suffolk - Nick Pandolfi
Coverage of a News Story
BBC Radio Cleveland The state visit of President
Bush
BBC Radio Humberside Soham murders and the Bichard
Inquiry
BBC Radio Nottingham The murder of Marian Bates
Interactive Programme
BBC Radio Leeds It's Your Call
BBC Radio Nottingham Groundswell: No Room for
Students?
BBC Radio Stoke Inside Lives
Reporter
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Max Rushden
BBC Radio Lincolnshire - Scott Dalton
BBC London Ben Wilkins
Sports Coverage
BBC Radio Cleveland - The Welsh Weekender
BBC Radio Humberside Hull City: Promotion to
Division Two
BBC Radio Merseyside I don't know what it is
but I love it The story of Rome '84
BBC Radio Oxford British Speedway GP 2004
Social Action Campaign
BBC Radio Devon The Chestnut Appeal Story
BBC Radio Gloucestershire Bio-Diversity Day
BBC Radio Merseyside Taking Care on BBC Radio
Merseyside
Radio Feature
BBC Essex All at Sea
BBC Three Counties Radio The Stephen Rhodes Consumer
Programme
BBC Radio York One Soldier's Story
Outside Broadcast
BBC Essex Pirate Radio Essex
BBC Radio Kent The Drive Show D Day OB
BBC Radio Leeds The Funeral of John Charles
Diversity
BBC London 94.9
BBC Radio Nottingham
BBC Radio Stoke
Radio Promotion
BBC Radio Devon Test the County
BBC Radio Lincolnshire Proud to be a Yellowbelly
BBC Radio Solent D-Day Sixty Years On
Religious Programming
BBC Radio Gloucestershire
BBC Radio Leeds
BBC Radio Nottingham
Station of the Year
BBC Essex
BBC London 94.9
BBC Radio Solent
Outstanding Contribution to BBC Local Radio
To be announced at the awards ceremony
