Student Radio Awards

The Student Radio Awards is a UK awards scheme celebrating talent within the UK student radio industry, held annually since 1996 by the Student Radio Association and supported by BBC Radio 1.

Many past winners of Student Radio Awards have gone on to become big names within the UK radio industry, most notably of late is Greg James (DJ), (Winner Best Male 2005), who now works at Radio 1, and Philippa TJ, who now works at 6 Music.

The awards themselves are announced in an awards ceremony typically taking place in London in November. The awards are run by the Student Radio Association, in collaboration with various third parties, mainly by Radio 1.

Awards Chair Person

The Current Awards Chairperson is Jo Whiley
Prior to that from inception to the 10th Awards was Steve Lamacq

Awards Judging

The Annual Awards Judging is done in two rounds, coordinated by the Association of Student Radio Alumni on behalf of The Student Radio Association. First round judging is exclusively carried out by ASRA Members.
The top 5 to 7 (category dependent) nominees then go through to the main Judging carried out by A Judging Panel of industry Professionals.
This results in the Top Three (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) for each category being chosen - previous winners are detailed below.

2008 Awards (12th Annual)

The 2008 deadline for awards entries was 16th July. Entries have since been handed to judges for the judging process to begin.

2008 nominees

These are the nominees for the 2008 Student Radio Awards.

best station

This is awarded to the station that has made the biggest impact with its audience in the last year. They’ve achieved everything they aimed to do with flair and attitude, whilst having a lot of fun.

* CUR 1350 * Fly FM * Smoke Radio * 1449AM URB * URN

best female

This category is for a female student radio presenter who deserves particular recognition for their overall presentation style and skills, including production and rapport with their audience.

* Hannah Davies (Xpress Radio) * Jessica Cooper (Fly FM) * Kate Cooper-Owen (LSRfm.com) * Kaz Strong (LSRfm.com) * Tallah Brash (Fresh Air)

best male

This category is for a male student radio presenter who deserves particular recognition for their overall presentation style and skills, including production and rapport with their audience.

* Ben Holt (Xpression) * Mark Crossley (Fly FM) * Rob Watts (URY) * Rory Auskerry (Utopia FM) * Tom O'Brien (Shock Radio)

newcomer of the year

This category is for a member of a student radio station who has been involved for less than one year. They deserve particular recognition for their overall contribution to the station and not necessarily their presenting efforts.

* Andy Vale (GU2) * Dan Bunker (Fly FM) * Dan Roberts (Smoke Radio) * Jordan Rogers-Smith (Fresh Air) * Max Dickens (LSRfm.com)

best specialist music programming

This category is designed to recognise programmes that have a specialist music policy that is more tightly focussed than the station’s main playlist. Judges will consider one-off documentaries or specials but programmes must display a passion for music.

* Armed Response DnB (Subcity) * Evening Show (URN) * Retox (LCR) * The Behr Necessities (Fuse FM) * The CUR 1350 Sessions (CUR 1350)

best journalistic programming

This category is designed to recognise programmes that form part of the station’s news, sport or current affairs output. One-off special features or programmes will be considered as well as regular programmes and services. Special consideration will be given to programmes that are targeted at the student audience.

* Elections Newsfeed (URN) * Scientology in York (URY) * Liquid Leeds (LSRfm.com) * Student Election Highlights (Smoke Radio) * URN News (URN)

best entertainment programming

This category recognises programming that forms part of the station’s entertainment output with a particular emphasis on the items and links within, acknowledging the person or persons responsible for devising, writing and producing them. An example of the genre would be The Chris Moyles Show.

* Breakfast (URY) * Gareth Ragg & Tom Aldridge (URN) * Lunch with Simon & Jenny (Fly FM) * The Student Soundtrack (Surge) * Will & Russ on Primetime (RaW)

best scripted programming

This category recognises the creation of planned comedy or drama programmes; either designed to make listeners laugh or those containing fictional or story-based content or readings.

* Alice in Mouslecoomb (URF) * Embers (Birst) * Mac and Ivan: Exposed (Insanity) * Rich Tea Biscuit (Xpression) * Three Years In Heaven (Birst)

best interview

This category recognises an outstanding interview.

* Goodlass & Marshall (Smoke Radio) * Greg Dyke - Rob Watts (URN) * Interview with Sandi Toksvig (RaW) * Frank Hamilton - John Russell (URN) * The Hoosiers - Llamageddon (Kube)

best outside broadcast

This category is for programmes which were recorded outside of the station’s studios. Judges will be examining the way in which entries captured the essence of the event.

* Bumps Coverage (CUR 1350) * Elections Night 2008 (URN) * InsanityV (Insanity) * Roses (Bailrigg FM) * URN @ The Summer Party (URN)

best technical achievement

This category celebrates a technical development that has improved your student radio station. You have identified a need and designed and developed a practical, successful engineering or IT based solution to fulfil this need, especially where a project shows particular innovation and originality.

* Fresh Air Facebook App (Fresh Air) * All-in-One OB Box (URN) * URB Nonstop V2 (1449AM URB) * urfonline.com (URF) * Xpress Radio CMS (Xpress Radio)

best marketing/branding

This category recognises stations with an increased awareness of on-air and off-air branding. This category is about the balance between on- and off-air station imaging and how the station communicates its image and values in order to attract and retain listeners.

* 1449AM URB * Fly FM * Insanity * Pure FM * Smoke Radio

The awards ceremony is at the o2 Arena in London on November 6th.

Winners 2007 (11th Annual)

Presented by Scott Mills and Edith Bowman

This year a total of 70 stations/entries have been nominated across 12 categories, there has also been a record number of entries.

Student Station of the Year
"Gold": CUR1350 - (University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University)
"Silver": Smoke Radio - (University of Westminster)
"Bronze": Demon FM - (De Montfort University)

Female Presenter of the Year
"Gold": Katherine Godfrey - CUR1350 - (University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University)
"Silver": Faye Lyons-White - LSRfm.com - (University of Leeds)
"Bronze": Becca Day-Preston - Fuse FM - (Manchester University)

Male Presenter of the Year
"Gold": Kenny Donohue - Bailrigg FM - (Lancaster University)
"Silver": Dave Dodd - BIRSt
"Bronze": Greg Hughes - LSRfm.com - (University of Leeds)

Winners 2006 (10th Annual)

Student Station of the Year:
"Gold:" URN (University of Nottingham)
"Silver:" RaW (University of Warwick)
"Bronze:" Smoke Radio (University of Westminster)

Female Presenter of the Year:
"Gold:" Steve Doran, URN (University of Nottingham)
"Silver:" Kim Harris, LSRfm.com (University of Leeds)
"Bronze:" Phillipa Treverton-Jones, URN (University of Nottingham)

Male Presenter of the Year:
"Gold:" Andrew Jackson, FUSE FM (University of Manchester)
"Silver:" Phil Noyce, Insanity 1287AM (Royal Holloway, University of London)
"Bronze:" Ian Chaloner, URN (University of Nottingham)

ee also

*The UK Student Radio Association

External links

* [http://www.studentradio.org.uk/awards/ Student radio awards]