Category: BBC; London; Radio Berkshire
Date: 05.09.2006
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The nominations for this year's Frank Gillard Awards have been announced today.
A record number of 25 stations have achieved nominations in the awards which celebrate BBC Local Radio.
BBC London 94.9 leads the field by being nominated in five categories and
BBC Radio Berkshire with three will be hoping that lightning can strike twice - last
year the station converted all three of its nominations to gold.
In the Breakfast category BBC London 94.9's Jono and Jo Breakfast Show pits its
metropolitan strength against the breakfast offerings of Mark Cummings from
BBC Radio Gloucestershire and Rod Whiting of BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
BBC London 94.9 also features in the Coverage of a News Story category where its
rolling news coverage of July 7 2005 is up against BBC Radio Shropshire's
Herceptin story and the Danielle Beccan murder trial from BBC Radio Nottingham.
For the Programme Presenter award, Nick Pandolfi from BBC Radio Suffolk is
hoping to repeat his 2004 success in 2006 if he can hold off BBC Radio
Sheffield's Toby Foster or BBC Radio Northampton's Bernie Keith.
This year's Sony Community Award winner, the mental health campaign Hearing
Voices from BBC Hereford and Worcester, is hoping for a Gillard Gold to add to
its trophy cabinet in the Social Action category.
Other nominations are
for BBC Radio Cornwall's Sea Sense and BBC Radio Lancashire's Rice Appeal.
There will be a new name on the prestigious Station of the Year award - none of the three nominated stations has won it in the seven years of the
Frank Gillard Awards.
BBC London 94.9 gained bronze in 2004 but BBC Radio
Manchester and BBC Radio Berkshire are new to the category.
The winners will be announced on 28 September at the Gillard Awards
dinner in Windermere, Cumbria.
Richard Bilton will
be the ceremony presenter and BBC Deputy Director-General, Mark Byford, will
present the coveted miniature busts of Frank Gillard to the winners.
Nominations
The Breakfast Programme
Radio Gloucestershire - Mark Cummings at Breakfast
Radio Lincolnshire - The Breakfast Show with Rod Whiting
BBC London 94.9 - Jono and Jo Breakfast Show
Programme Presenter
Radio Northampton - Bernie Keith
Radio Sheffield - Toby Foster
Radio Suffolk - Nick Pandolfi
Coverage of a News Story
BBC London 94.9 - Rolling News Coverage July 7th
Radio Nottingham - The Danielle Beccan Murder Trial
Radio Shropshire - The Herceptin Story
Interactive Programme
Radio Norfolk - David Clayton's Norfolk Years
Radio Oxford - Planet Speedway
Three Counties Radio - Treasure Quest
Reporter
Radio Cambridgeshire - Josef Hall
Radio Leeds - Nicola Rees
Southern Counties Radio - Allison Ferns
Sports Coverage
Radio Merseyside - FA Cup Final: Liverpool v West Ham
Radio Sheffield - Football Heaven - Derby Day Special
Radio Suffolk - Riding Roughshod
Social Action Campaign
Radio Cornwall - Sea Sense
BBC Hereford & Worcester - Hearing Voices
Radio Lancashire - Rice Appeal
Radio Feature
BBC Hereford & Worcester - George
Radio Northampton - The Nag's Head, Wollaston
Radio Solent - Finding Dad
Outside Broadcast
Radio Berkshire - The Queen's 80th Birthday
BBC London 94.9 - The 2006 London Marathon
Radio Manchester - The Bomb 10 Years On
Religious Programming
Radio Devon - The Weekend Breakfast Show
Radio Lancashire - Joe Wilson - Lancashire Sunday
Radio Nottingham - Breakfast Compilation
Radio Promotion
Radio Berkshire - The Reading FC Promotion Campaign: the more they score,
the louder we roar!
Radio Bristol - Brunel 200
BBC Coventry & Warwickshire - Liz'll Fix It
Diversity
Radio Leicester - Telling Lives
BBC London 94.9 - Compilation
Radio Merseyside - Ticket to Ride - Journeys on a BBC Bus
Outstanding Contribution to BBC Local Radio
To be announced on the night
Station of the Year
BBC Radio Berkshire
BBC London 94.9
BBC Radio Manchester.
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