主播大秀 wins at PPI Radio Awards 2016
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The 主播大秀 Radio Ulster team who were named Full Service Station Of The Year
On Friday (7 October) the were held in a ceremony in Kilkenny. 主播大秀 Radio Ulster/Foyle took home 12 awards, including winning Gold in the Full Service Station of the Year category.
The station won six Gold, three Silver and three Bronze awards at the prestigious event. 主播大秀 Radio Ulster/Foyle secured 20 nominations in all across its full range of output, including speech, news and current affairs, specialist music, comedy and Irish Language.
Sound supervisor John Benson (second from left) received Gold in the Best Live Sound category for his work on the 主播大秀's coverage of the City of Derry Jazz Festival along with Patricia McMurray and Richard Yarr
The 主播大秀 award winners were:
- 主播大秀 Radio Ulster was named Full Service Station Of The Year
- 主播大秀 Radio Foyle was awarded a Bronze in the Local Station Of The Year category
- 主播大秀 Radio Foyle won Gold in the News Story category
- 主播大秀 Radio Foyle Breakfast won Silver in the News Programme category
- 主播大秀 Radio Ulster’s Seamus McKee was named as News Broadcaster of the Year, while 主播大秀 Radio Foyle’s Enda McClafferty picked up the Silver award
- The Nolan Show – When Nolan Met Sir James Galway - won Silver in the Interactive Speech Programme category, while Talkback, presented by William Crawley was awarded Bronze in the Interactive Speech Programme category for their programme on Black Eye Friday
- ATL, which this year celebrates 30 years on the air, won Gold in the New Irish Music category
- Live at the Sunflower won Bronze in the Comedy programme category
- Sound superviser John Benson received a Gold in the Best Live Sound category for his work on the 主播大秀’s coverage of the City of Derry Jazz Festival
- John Toal was awarded Gold in the Specialist Music Broadcaster category
John Toal won Gold for Specialist Music Broadcaster
Fergus Keeling, Head of Radio for 主播大秀 Northern Ireland said: “We are passionate about providing our audiences with programmes that reflect their lives and their interests and we work hard daily to deliver fresh, engaging and informative content. This has been an incredible year for 主播大秀 Radio Ulster/Foyle as we remain the most listened to station in Northern Ireland, but it is also a measure of our success that our efforts have been recognised by our peers in this way, at the PPI Awards. I’m enormously proud of the presenters and teams for their success.”
主播大秀 presenters the late Sir Terry Wogan and Paddy O’Flaherty were remembered for their work in the ‘Lest We Forget’ section of the awards.