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Awards presented at Radio Academy forum
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 30 March 2009
The Radio Academy last week staged its first Radio & Music Forum, designed to bring together the great and good of both the radio and music sectors so to assess whose industry was in the biggest mess. Do you know, I think I’d say radio.
No, that wasn’t the real reason for meeting, it was a chance for radio and music types to explore how they can better work together, to meet their respective challenges in this here digital age. It was also an opportunity to dish out some awards – some existing gongs, and some new ones – to those music business types who support or work with radio, and vice versa.
The Scott Piering Award, an established prize that acknowledges collaboration between the music and radio industries, went to BPI chief and former EMI UK boss Tony Wadsworth (pictured, photo from the Radio Academy), while two plugging awards, presented in association with Record Of The Day, went to Neil Adams of, well, Neil Adams PR, and Charlie Lycett of Lucid PR.
There were also awards for music business types. There were two new gongs for live music broadcasting, which went to the BBC Electric Proms and the Xfm Session. And then there was the PPL sponsored Lifetime Achievement Award which went to the legend that is Trevor Horn.
