24th Sony Radio Academy Awards

The 24th Sony Radio Academy Awards were held on 8 May 2006 at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane in London.There were 29 categories of award and two special awards.

Programme awards and winners

*The Breakfast Show Awards — "Nick Ferrari at Breakfast" (LBC 97.3FM)
*The Music Programme Award — "Mornings with Rick Shaw" (Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands)
*The Specialist Music Programme Award — Zane Lowe (BBC Radio 1)
*The News and Current Affairs Programme Award — "1800 News Bulletin" (BBC Radio 4)
*The Sports Programme Award — "Fighting Talk" (BBC Radio Five Live)
*The Speech Programme Award — "The Stephen Nolan Show" (BBC Radio Ulster)
*The Interactive Programme Award — Scott Mills (BBC Radio 1)
*The Entertainment Award — Chris Moyles (BBC Radio 1)

Personality awards and winners

*The Music Broadcaster of the Year — Zane Lowe (BBC Radio 1)
*The Music Radio Personality of the Year — Chris Evans (BBC Radio 2)
*The News Journalist of the Year — Angus Stickler (BBC Radio 4)
*The Speech Broadcaster of the Year — Eddie Mair (BBC Radio 4)
*The Station Programmer of the Year — Richard Park (Magic 105.4)

Production awards and winners

*The Drama Award — "No Background Music" (BBC Radio 4)
*The Comedy Award — "The Ape That Got Lucky" (BBC Radio 4)
*The Feature Award — "A Requiem for St Kilda" (BBC Radio 4)
*The Musical Special Award — "" (BBC Radio 4)
*The News Feature Award — "Return to Sarajevo" (BBC World Service)
*The Breaking News Award — The London Bombings (Capital Radio)
*The Live Event Coverage Award — The Boat Race 2005 (LBC)
*The Community Award — "Hearing Voices" (BBC Hereford & Worcester)
*The Promo Award — "Kerrang! Christmas" (Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands)
*The Competition Award — "Xfm’s Rock School" (Xfm)
*The Station Imaging Award — Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands

tation awards and winners

*Station of the Year with a potential audience of under 300,000 — Coast 96.3 (North Wales Coast)
*Station of the Year with a potential audience of 300,000 – 1 million — Pirate FM (Cornwall, Plymouth & West Devon)
*Station of the Year with a potential audience of 1 million plus — Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands
*Digital Terrestrial Station of the Year — Planet Rock
*UK Station of the Year — BBC Radio 1

pecial awards

*The Special Award — The Beethoven Experience
*The Gold Award — Terry Wogan

External links

* [http://www.radioawards.org/winners06/win06.htm The Sony Radio Academy Awards]