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29
March 2007
Ross
And Evans Battle For
Award
Radio
2 DJs Chris
Evans
and Jonathan Ross are
going head to head in
the race to be named
personality of the year
at the 25th Sony Radio
Awards.
Evans,
who took the title last
year, is also up for the
entertainment award,
alongside Heart's Jamie
Theakston and last
year's winner, Chris
Moyles.
BBC
stations dominate the
nominations, with Radio
4 listed 23
times.
Commercial
stations Heart and XFM
each have three
nominations. The awards
will be announced in
London on 30
April.
Sir
Terry Wogan, who has the
most listened-to radio
programme in the UK, has
not received a
nomination for his
breakfast show on BBC
Radio 2.
Instead,
the contenders are Radio
4's Today Programme,
Five Live Breakfast and
three regional shows -
The Bush and Troy Show
from GWR in Bristol,
Toolan in the Morning
from Manchester's Key
103 and the Jo and
Twiggy Breakfast show
from Trent
FM.
But
Wogan is up for the
Broadcasters'
Broadcaster Award, which
is being run to coincide
with Sony Radio
Academy's 25th
anniversary.
The
award will see one of 25
"individuals who have
shaped, changed and
developed modern radio
broadcasting" recognised
for their
contribution.
The
shortlist also includes
Kenny Everett, John
Peel, Chris Moyles,
Annie Nightingale and
Sir Alistair Cooke, with
the winner to be chosen
by fellow
broadcasters.
For
the first time, this
year's Sony Awards will
recognise online
broadcasters, with Frank
Skinner and David
Baddiel's World Cup
podcasts in the running
for the internet
programme
award.
Channel
4's online station
4Radio even makes an
appearance in the music
programme category,
alongside four
traditional radio
stations.
Its
Popworld Radio
challenges Radio 1's
Zane Lowe, which won the
award last
year.
Former
Inspiral Carpets star
Clint Boon gets a double
nomination - music
broadcaster of the year
and specialist music
programme - for his show
on XFM
Manchester.
Radio
1 is defending its title
of station of the year
against competition from
Radio 2 and Classic
FM.
"It
is testimony to the
respect in which these
awards are held that
after 25 years of their
existence, this year's
event attracted the
all-time highest number
of entries," said
chairman of the awards
committee, Tim
Blackmore.
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