The Student Radio Awards is an annual event hosted by the Student Radio Association. Every year, URY enters itself for several different awards, sometimes winning.
Trivia
- URY's very own Coco Cole was one of the Voices of the Awards in 2012. A small amount of gratification was to be had when she eventually had to read out URY's Best Technical Achievement submission name.
- In 2013, URY was joint first in Most Nominations with Fly FM, and Most Awarded with Fly FM and URN.
- Harry Whittaker was the first person in living Student Radio Association history that has received 3 nominations in a single year.
- In 2018, the team behind URYspy won three SRAs and were invited to speak at that year's RadioTechCon
- In 2020, URY received its highest number of nominations recorded on this wiki, and the highest number of wins.
- In 2020, URY won Best Station for the first time in ten years, after being nominated for the first time in eight years.
Award History
2020
| Category
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Nominations
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Winner
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| Best Student Radio Chart Show
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URY
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URY (Gold), Leeds Student Radio (Silver), Surge Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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WebStudio
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URY: WebStudio (Gold), URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver), URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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Dearie-Me and Silencio
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URY: WebStudio (Gold), URY: Dearie-Me and Silencio (Silver), URN: Broadcasting from home...for free (Bronze)
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| Best Journalistic Programming
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Candidate Interview Night
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URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver), RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
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| Best Journalistic Programming
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URY Newshour
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URB: Biscuitgate: The Rise and Fall of Glynis Breakwell (Gold), URY: Candidate Interview Night (Silver), RadioLaB971FM: Meet the Smugglers (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Show/Presenter
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Numi Now
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URN: The Official Pre-Ocean Show (Gold), Insanity Radio: The D-Whyte Show (Silver), Spark: Drive Time with Emma Millen (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer
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Marks Polakovs
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URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer
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Alice Milburn
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URN: Ricky Eatough (Gold), URY: Marks Polakovs (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Rin Dacheva (Bronze)
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| Best Music Show/Presenter
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Alex and Numi
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Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), URY: Alex and Numi (Silver), Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
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| Best Music Show/Presenter
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Liam Daly
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Spark: Emma Millen (Gold), URY: Alex and Numi (Silver), Quest Radio: Katie Bevano (Bronze)
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| Best Student Radio Station
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URY
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URY (Gold), Leeds Student Radio (Silver), URN (Bronze)
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2019
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
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| Best Student Radio Chart Show
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URY
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URY (Gold), Fly FM (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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Building homebrew studio infrastructure
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RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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Customisable LEDs
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RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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The Big Campus Sound Project
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RAW 1251AM: Digiplay (Gold), URY: Building homebrew studio infrastructure (Silver), Fly FM: Fly FM On Demand (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme
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The Joel Mitchell Show
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Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme
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URY with Hannah
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Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme
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The Big URY Show
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Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Gold), URY: The Joel Mitchell Show (Silver), Nerve Radio: The Cal & Ben Show (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer
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Joseph Morrall
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URY: Joseph Morrall (Gold), Surge Radio: Elliot Morris (Silver), RAW 1251AM: Will Hall (Bronze)
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| Best Female
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Hannah Sackville-Bryant
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URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold), Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
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| Best Female
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Numi Gildert
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URY: Hannah Sackville-Bryant (Gold), Fly FM: Emma Snow (Silver), Fly FM: Zofia Hare (Bronze)
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2018
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
|
| Best Technical Achievement
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URspy
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URY: URspy (Gold), Insanity Radio: Insanity Goes Visual: Project Falcon (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: LSR’s best technical achievement entry (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme
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URY:PM - Roku Radio
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URN: The Specials (Gold), Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Campaign Relief (Bronze)
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| Best Multiplatform
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URspy
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URY: URSpy (Gold), URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Multiplatform
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URY Music
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URY: URSpy (Gold), URN: The Lightning Draft (Silver), Xpress Radio: International Women’s Day on Xpress Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Station Branding
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URY
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RAW1251am (Gold), Smoke Radio (Silver), Leeds Student Radio (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer
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Alex West
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URB: Mitch Thorngate (Gold), Xpress Radio: Sam McGregor (Silver), KCL Radio: Heidi Hamilton (Bronze)
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| Best Female
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Hannah Sackville-Bryant
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URN: Nikki Osborne (Gold), Smoke Radio: Sofia Loporcaro (Silver), URN: Ella W (Bronze)
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| Best Male
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Joel Mitchell
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RAW1251am: Adam English (Gold), URY: Joel Mitchell (Silver), Livewire: Harry Benjamin (Bronze)
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| Kevin Greening Award
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N/A
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Stuart Russell (Individual): Poetical (Gold), URY: URSpy (Silver), URN: The Lightning Draft (Bronze)
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2017
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
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| Best Technical Achievement
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URY Visualisation
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Insanity Radio: Nerve and the New Music Library (Gold), URB: Radio Catchup (Silver), URY: URY Visualisation (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme
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URY:PM - with K-Spence
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URY: URY:PM - with K-Spence (Gold), Smoke Radio: Thursday Breakfast with Gabriel and Joe (Silver), URN: Spoil the Ballot (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer
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Will Batchelor
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URY: Will Batchelor (Gold), URY: Matt Stratford (Silver), Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer
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Matt Stratford
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URY: Will Batchelor (Gold), URY: Matt Stratford (Silver), Purple Radio: Matthew Calvert (Bronze)
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| Best Male
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Joshua Kerr
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Fly FM: Matt Lynch (Gold), Spark: Tom Glenwright (Silver), Radio Lab 97.1: Luke Gregory (Bronze)
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2016
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
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| Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast
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101 Hour Outside Broadcast
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Fly FM: Varsity Series (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: The Leadership Race (Silver), Xpression: 3 Campuses, 2 Counties, 1 Broadcast (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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Beat the Buzz
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URY: Beat the Buzz (Gold), Dragon Radio: Dragon Site Redesign (Silver), URN: The URN App (Bronze)
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| Best Speech Programming
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After The Tone
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URN: The Nineteen Percent (Gold), Spark Sunderland: Somewhere On A Blue Horizon (Silver), CSRfm: Chance Encounter (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme
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URY:PM - with K-Spence
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Surge: The Lowdown with Tom Cross (Gold), URN: The Rustlers (Silver), Livewire: The Tom v Tom Show (Bronze)
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| Best Multiplatform Initiative
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URY Music
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Leeds Student Radio: Spice UK (Gold), Smoke Radio: National Student Pride 2016 (Silver), URN: Varsity 2016 (Bronze)
|
| Best Station Branding
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URY
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Fly FM (Gold), URN (Silver), URY (Bronze)
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| Best Female
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Kat Spencer
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Fly FM: Jen Thomas (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: Jaguar Bingham (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Kerry Maule (Bronze)
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| Kevin Greening Award
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N/A
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Leeds Student Radio: Yeezy Taught Me (Gold), East London Radio: Andrew Hodges (Silver), URY: Biscuit News (Bronze)
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2015
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
|
| Best Live Event or Outside Broadcast
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Elections Results Night
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Xpress Radio: The Welsh Varsity 2015 (Gold), URY: Elections Results Night (Silver), Shock Radio: Three Peaks Challenge (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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URY: Roses mini OB Kits
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University Radio Bath: Visualisation Rebuild and URB Digital (Gold), URY: Roses mini OB Kits (Silver), URN: OB1 – Universal Outside Broadcaster (Bronze)
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| Best Sport Programming
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URY Sports Hour
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URN: URN Sport (Gold), URN: Varsity Basketball 2015 (Silver), Xpression FM: Boxing Varsity ’14 (Bronze)
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| Best Entertainment Programme
|
Harry Whittaker Show
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URY: Harry Whittaker Show (Gold), Forge Radio: Ben Bason (Silver), Shock Radio: The Paul Jones Show (Bronze)
|
| Best Newcomer
|
Rebecca Saw
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URY: Rebecca Saw (Gold), Leeds Student Radio: Louisa Fox (Silver), Leeds Student Radio: Bethany Bartley-Jeacock (Bronze)
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| Best Male Presenter
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Harry Whittaker
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Leeds Student Radio: Sammy Jones (Gold), Fly FM: James Lewer (Silver), URY: Harry Whittaker (Bronze)
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2014
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
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| Best Journalistic Programming
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River Safety: York’s Rising Problem
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SCRATCH RADIO (Gold), URY: River Safety: York’s Rising Problem (Silver), URN (Bronze)
|
2013
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
|
| Best Technical Achievement
|
Talkback
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URYB: 1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), URY: Show Planner (Silver), Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
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| Best Technical Achievement
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Show Planner
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1449AM URYB's UK Radioplayer Console & Unified Station Management Application (Gold), URY: Show Planner (Silver), Shock Radio: New Broadcast Architecture (Bronze)
|
| Best Specialist Music Programming
|
Bos Tones
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Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
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| Best Specialist Music Programming
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Ellie Wright's World Music
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Will Metcalf (Gold), Monster FM: Roya's Celtic Show (Silver), Fly FM: The Urban Swift with Temi Jonah (Bronze)
|
| Best Entertainment Show
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The Harry Whittaker Show
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The Morning Show with Giles Gear (Gold), Wake and Bake with Laurence and Gareth (Silver), The Harry Whittaker Show - ((URY)) (Bronze)
|
| Best Male
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Harry Whittaker
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Pure FM: Glen Scott (Gold), Radio LaB: Danny Fullbrook (Silver), Spark FM: Jonny Chambers (Bronze)
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| Best Newcomer
|
Harry Whittaker
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Ben Sheppard (Gold), Harry Whittaker - ((URY)) (Silver), Dom Stirling (Bronze)
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| Best Speech Programming
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The New World Order: Part 2: 1651
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URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold), URY: Trimble (Silver), A Seaside Town (Bronze)
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| Best Speech Programming
|
Trimble
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URY: The New World Order: Part 2: 1651 (Gold), URY: Trimble (Silver), A Seaside Town (Bronze)
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2012
| Category
|
Nominations
|
Winner
|
| Best Student Radio Station
|
URY
|
URN (Gold), URY (Silver), 107 Spark FM (Bronze)
|
| Best Specialist Music Programming
|
Coco Electro
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???: Dance Revolution (Gold), LSRFM: Mim Shaikh Presents The Shaikh World Show (Silver), URY: Coco Electro (Bronze)
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