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PPL, founded in 1934, is the music licensing company which, on behalf of 47,500 performers and 6,300 record companies, licenses the use of recorded music in the UK. This enables TV and radio stations, online streaming services and hundreds of thousands of shops, pubs and others using music in their business to obtain a licence comprising millions of recordings.

As a music industry service, the company does not retain any profit for itself. The costs of collecting, processing and distributing the licence fees are taken from the gross revenues that the company collects which are distributed and paid to all PPL’s record company and performer members. These include featured artists as well as session musicians, ranging from orchestral players to percussionists and to singers.

In addition, the company collects international performance rights income for 80% of its members and this revenue stream is currently the fastest growing area of the company. PPL now has representation in 28 different countries around the world, which has resulted in 52 separate contracts with similar organisations, representing a further 2,000 overseas record companies and 21,000 performers for the collection of income generated by their respective rights in the UK.

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Welcome to the Student Radio Awards 2011!

Congratulations to all of you nominated, and well done on everyone else coming along to show support. What you’ve created at your respective student radio stations all around the UK has been amazing and of a really high quality. Those of you who are nominated are a true testament to that. The imagination, organisation and dedication that goes into reading, producing, presenting and then bringing to life your radio shows takes an enormous amount of effort and talent. So tonight is a huge ‘big up’ to you all for being great!

Scott and I are looking forward being your hosts tonight, and we’ve decided to throw Huw to the lions, so he’s in the crowd with you - catch him to say “hi”.

BBC Radio 1 is once again very pleased to be a major supporter of the Awards, now in it’s 16th year. A big thanks goes to Andy Parfitt, Ben Cooper, Neil Sloan and Jocelin Stainer all of whom have put in lots of work to make tonight possible. We would like to take this opportunity to thank and welcome all the other radio groups, stations, and companies, who have been part of supporting this year’s Awards. We would like to thank our other supporters throughout the BBC for understanding that student radio is something that we all as an industry need to stand up and support.

I would like to make a special thanks to the SRA Executive and Officers for working tirelessly behind the scenes, and to all of you who decided to enter in the first place. Without your entries, over 130 judges would have had an easy summer! Thanks to them for spending their own free time to listen and comment.

Finally a big thanks to those who helped put the production of this evening together - Chris North, John Lawley and others at Wise Buddah and the team at Solent Productions.

Tonight starts the first of my three years as Chair of the Awards, and I’m hugely grateful to the SRA for giving me the opportunity to take up the role. I look forward to closely working with many of you in the future. I’m such a fan of the passion and talent that’s in student radio and I’m sure that you will never disappoint.

Have a raving, raucous and wonderful night!

Annie.

Contents04 Tonight’s Running Order

05 Meet Your Hosts

07 Soundclash

08 - 09 Noms Parties

12 - 13 This Years’ Nominations

15 How The Judging Works

16 - 21 The Judges

23 The National Student Radio Conference 2010

24 The Voices of the Awards

25 The Kevin Greening Award

27 Thank You

The Student Radio Awards 2011 supported by BBC Radio 1 and PPL 03

The Student Radio Awards 2011 supported by BBC Radio 1 and PPL04

Fred BradleyChair of the SRA

Thom PalserMembership &

Communications Officer

Kyle WilkinsonEvents Officer

Lee SevenoaksDevelopment Officer

Laurence MoretonMarketing Officer

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Scott Mills


Annie Mac


Huw Stephens


Proud supporters of student radio talent

Rachel HoughtonThen: Deputy Station Manager,

Shock Radio (Salford)Now: Programming Producer,

106.1 Real Radio XS

Chris StevensThen: Head of Marketing,

Utopia FM (Sunderland)Now: Deputy Group Programme

Director, GMG Radio

www.gmgradio.co.uk

Jamie Griffi thsThen: Head Of News, Passion

106.8 (Farnborough)Now: Head Of Presentation,

Smooth Radio UK

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Proud supporters of student radio talent

Rachel HoughtonThen: Deputy Station Manager,

Shock Radio (Salford)Now: Programming Producer,

106.1 Real Radio XS

Chris StevensThen: Head of Marketing,

Utopia FM (Sunderland)Now: Deputy Group Programme

Director, GMG Radio

www.gmgradio.co.uk

Jamie Griffi thsThen: Head Of News, Passion

106.8 (Farnborough)Now: Head Of Presentation,

Smooth Radio UK

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Mistajam

Steve Lamacq

Scott Mills

Emma B

Westwood

Anton Powers

Pete Donaldson

Cardiff played host to the I Love Student Radio day for Wales and the South West of England, which saw a good turnout this year, including one Ruth Jones! The training day was held in the main building of the city’s prestigious University, featuring speakers from across the region to give advice and support to everyone involved in student radio. The speakers included Danielle, who talked about creating a decent radio demo with support from The Pips, Emma Gilliam, who discussed good interview eitquette and how to get into broadcast journalism, and Steve Austin, who gave a good insight into production for radio - a particular highlight came when he revealed that BBC Wales will be setting up a work experience scheme with Xpress Radio in Cardiff.

The evening was just as eventful, with the attendees being treated to seeing a recording of “What’s The Story?”, a topical news panel show produced by Dave Cribb, with Dan Mitchell and Ruth Jones as guests - the latter of which ended up reading out the nominations for the Student Radio Awards later in the evening! With many attendees seeing fit to catch the last trains home, the day was seen off with a few pints of beer and calls to repeat it soon. A good time was had by all and all that is left is to wait for the Student Radio Awards!

South West & South Wales


The I Love Student Radio Day, ‘North West & North Wales, Edition’ started down in the deep and dimly lit chambers of Manchester’s Club Academy. Our first speaker was John Ryan, Editor of BBC Manchester, who kicked off the day by telling us what was actually going on in MediaCity UK and how many people we had to battle off for a job. The next speaker we had was Alex James, presenter of In:Demand for Bauer Media, who spoke about presenting in commercial radio. The rest of the day included talks on production, speech radio and demos from other top industry speakers, including Chris Stevens from GMG, Jo Meek from Wise Buddah, Mel Harris from Sparklab productions and Jo Good from BBC 6 Music. It was a great day for people in the NW to meet the speakers, but also each other. We had students from Liverpool, Chester, Salford and Lancaster to join the Manchester ranks of radio enthusiasts- what a good start to the first ever I Love Student Radio Day! Adam Catterall, King of the North, was there to read out the nominations at 8pm to a crowd of eager and excited students. The windows nearly burst with the cheers for our two nominations, one for Ben Arnold in Best Specilaist Music Programming and the other for James Robinson in Best Male- a massive well done to both of those chaps. As the announcements came to a close, the boat pulled into MediaCity UK. With the lights of the buildings of some of the UK’s biggest and best media companies beaming down on us, it was hard to not get excited about the future of radio in the North West. But for now, we’ll just have to remain excited for the Awards in November- bring them on!

North West & North Wales

This year the I Love Student Radio Day was hosted by Radio Caley at Glasgow Caledonian University, with a turn out of 80 students from various stations from across the country. It was great to see members attending from; Discover Radio (Dundee), Fresh Air (Edinburgh), Air3 Radio (Stirling), Fusion Radio, Glasgow City College Radio, Radio Caley and Subcity (Glasgow).

The Training Event featured a variety of speakers including Barbara Wallace (Senior Music Producer at BBC Radio Scotland), Ally McCrae (Presenter at BBC Introducing), Dougie Jackson (Former Presenter at Scot FM, Clyde 1, Real Radio, Smooth) and a contribution from Subcity Radio. We had some fantastics talks focusing on a variety of subjects; production, presenting, podcasts and community radio stations.

The evening networking event proved very successful, we would like to extend a massive thank you to our wonderful hosts at The Flying Duck. For the evenings entertainment we had former Subcity and Radio Caley presenters DJing into the night.

Good luck to all the nominees!

Scotland


North East & Yorkshire I Love Student Radio day was a great day for the students of stations in the region, held at Click Teesside. Greg McInally, from Napier University 10 years ago, gave the students a great speech on the workload and typical days of a breakfast producer at Real Radio. His vast knowledge base was clearly on show and he was a passionate speaker.The night went very well, with a few surprised screams when people were nominated and had not been expecting it. Click Teesside gave us a great speech on how they run, including a great show of their technical side.

The anticipation was tangible whilst the nominations were read out in the evening, with roars of appreciate when a station from the region was nominated, and respectful applause when no regional stations were nominated. The night went very well and a few surprised screams when people got nominated when not expecting it. The North East & Yorkshire has been well represented and good luck to all nominated individuals and stations from the region.

A big thank you goes to Lee Sevenoaks, Dominic Dunn and Rachael Devine for all the help they gave in the lead up. Thank you also to John McInally, Marie Gardiner and Mark Black for taking time out to speak to the students who turned up.

North East & Yorkshire

The London & East Anglia I Love Student Radio Day was in Camden this year. It had an enormous turn out of 200 attendees from all over the region and they enjoyed a Training Event in the day time and a Nominations Party in the evening. The training event featured speakers from all over the industry, including Mark Crossley (Absolute Radio), Maddi Lown (BBC R1 Newsbeat), Verity Geere (Sky News and Magic), Emma Stephens (BBC Radio 1Xtra), Jacob Rickard (Freelance) and many more. The talks focused on radio production, presentation and journalism.

Lock 17 in Camden sponsored the event and the Nominations Party was held in the canal side Market Bar. People flocked to the party which was hosted by Jon Hillcock and Vicki Blight to drink, socialise and celebrate/commiserate. Smoke Radio clawed the most nominations from the London & East Anglia region, but there was also a large number of URN-ers and LSR-ers cheering, an almost multi-regional Nominations Party.

A massive thanks has to go to Lock 17 in Camden for sponsoring the event, as well as Wise Buddah, ASRA, everyone that helped out and made the event possible, photography by Ila Desai and everyone that came and enjoyed themselves.

London & East Anglia

The event started at 11am in Brighton at ‘Komedia’. The first speaker Gav’from The Pips spent the first hour formally chatting about the best ways to submit, produce and create a demo. Then at 1.30pm Andy took the stage to chat about his life experience with radio and generally giving us all an education. Nick Bright, from BBC Radio 1Xtra, spoke passionately about his journey into radio, this particularly captured our attentions as he had only recently graduated from university. All three speakers were fantastic and spent the next half an hour chatting to the students.

Moving onto the next secluded and mature venue ‘Kuba’ , it was the start of a good night chatting, drinking, laughing and partying. 8pm came around quite quickly and by then we were itching to know the results. After reading the results there were mixed emotions from everyone, and after that there were celebratory drinks all around. Everyone by then was quite tired and eager to keep partying but commitments meant that they all had to go around 9.30pm.

A massive thank you to all of the students that came down to the training day and evening event. Thank you to ‘Komedia’ and ‘Kuba’ for having us, you were very professional and did a lot to help me make it a success. Another thank you to the speakers, Gav, Andy and Nick, you made it the perfect training day! A special thank you to my sponsor for the evening Mr Michael Stringer of Flip-It!

South East

MidlandsThe programme for the day was filled with speakers providing a selection of insight for the budding talent of tomorrow. Stafford FM’s Ray Crowther came in to represent community radio. He gave an informative insight into what it’s like to set up your own radio station, based on his wealth of experience. BBC Radio Stoke employees, Qasa Alom, Rob Adcock and Scott Thomas, as well as former Staffs Uni student and UTV freelancer Gaz Ryder, provided tales of personal trial and error and a helpful insight on how they each found their place in the industry. Joining us to give a round up of radio’s history was Mike Owen, founder of multimedia company Mike Owen Media. He talked about his experiences working in the different areas of radio over the years, finishing up in the current day, explaining how his company provides radio output for some of the biggest events in the country.

As the hopefuls joined us at the nominations party, the buzz in the room exuded anticipation. Adam Wilbourn (BRMB, Student Radio Awards Judge, and multiple Student Radio Awards winner) joined the party to present the nominations, his energy added to the tension as each station found out if they were nominated. It was definitely a bit disappointing for some and others were clearly over the moon. Overall the day was a success and I wish the best of luck to all nominated.

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Jonny Chambers107 Spark FM

Ian ThursfieldRamAir

Tom WattsFly FM

Aislinn HayesIC Radio

Natalie HolidaySmoke Radio

Lissie DayLSRfm.com

Elections NightURN

Summer PartyURN

Leeds Day of ActionLSRfm.com

Click-a-thonClick Teeside

Varsity Rugby 2011KCL Radio

The Hidden BroadcastLSRfm.com

Scott McGerty Interviews Wretch 32107 Spark FM

Stu Manton with Greg DaviesURN

Gary Pounder Interviews Gary PowellSmoke FM

Kieran and Ness Meet Greg DaviesFly FM

Rusko in the StudioForge Radio

Luke Cooper Milbank Protest InterviewURF

Push FrameworkXtreme Radio 1431AM

Outside Broadcast SoftwareSurge

IRIS - Interchangeable Radio Playout SystemInsanity Radio 1287AM

Station ManagerXtreme Radio 1431AM

Radio Presenters Dashboard1350AM GU2

Facebook ApplicationSurge

URN 107 Spark FM

Radio Sonar LSRfm.com

1350AM GU2 1449AM URB

Buzz Demolition 20101449AM URB

The PulseURN

York 60URY

Trent TalkFly FM

Nineteen: Now or Never?LSRfm.com

From our own Leeds CorrespondentLSRfm.com

The More Beautiful GameURY

In the StallsURY

The Zombie and You107 Spark FM

2UPSmoke Radio

The Prince and HumbersideURY

SlapdasherySmoke Radio


Asian Invasion with YasserLSRfm.com

Barnie’s PlayhouseThe Cat 1251

John Cadigan - The World Music ShowSmoke Radio

French ToastSmoke Radio

Carlos Slazenger’s AudioVOX Radio

Dance Revolution107 Spark FM

Luke and EdXpress Radio

Pete and PearséFly FM

The Two Bens Radio ShowLUSH Radio

Ollie and LiamURN

The Chalk and Charles ShowURY

The Sean & Martyn ShowXpress Radio

Xpression FM Xpress Radio

1449AM URB 1350AM GU2

Demon FM Radio Sonar

Pete AllisonFly FM

Martyn LittlewoodFly FM

James RobinsonFuse FM

Sean ThorneXpress Radio

Samuel DarcyLCR

Jon JacksonDemon FM

Cheeka EyersURN

Michelle OwenXtreme Radio 1431am

Erica DancerDemon FM

Sarah Harrison107 Spark FM

Jade WorsleyFly FM

Tamsin GraingerXpress Radio

URY 1449AM URB

Xpress Radio URN

LSRfm.com Fly FM



At the beginning of each year professionals from across the radio industry dedicate their time to judging the Student Radio Awards. This year there were 536 entries, the process took about two months and over one hundred and thirty judges were involved.

The Association of Student Radio Alumni (ASRA) co-ordinates the judging process on behalf of the SRA. This ensures impartiality and brings an extensive set of contacts from across the industry. Thank you to the committee who spent the summer getting in touch with professionals from commercial radio stations, BBC radio stations, independent production companies and student radio alumni to invite them to judge the Awards.

Thank you to this year’s judging co-ordinators: Tim Dye, Sarah Ghost, Jonathan Pascoe and Abi Willey. They planned the judging of each category to make sure all entries were considered by at least two judges and that no judge was tasked with listening to an unmanageable amount of entries. The online judging system was made available thanks to the SRA’s Web Officer, Scott Robinson, who built the site and managed it throughout the judging process.

Thank you to the eleven judges who also took on the role of chairing a category this year. They were responsible for briefing their category’s judges and working with them to reach a decision.

And finally, thank you to all of the judges involved. They have dedicated their time to listening to all 536 entries, documented their feedback and made the difficult decision of who to award at this year’s ceremony. Thanks to them this year has seen an unprecedented level of judging feedback that will enable students to learn, improve, and continue to deliver outstanding radio for the future.

Sarah GhostASRA

Demon FM

Sarah got involved with student radio at Demon FM (De Montfort University) as a presenter, producer, newsreader, events coordinator and general Station Manager’s bitch. She was elected as Secretary at the SRA Bath Conference 2008 and quickly became an SRA stalwart, redefining her role to become Membership & Communications Officer, wielding an iron fist of organisation over her fellow officers, and refusing to leave the SRA for three years. Sarah works full-time as a Communications Officer for a London university, is a member of the ASRA Committee, and continues to harass the current SRA Executive.

J o n a t h a n PascoeITN Productions

Jonathan Pascoe is a Radio, TV and Online Producer, currently working at ITN Productions. Having spent over 10 years in radio, working in Kent, Sussex (at Juice and URF), Manchester then London on Heart Breakfast with Jamie and Harriet for 5 years, he made the move to TV and online broadcasting in 2010. As part of the Entertainment and News team and ITNP, Jonathan looks after guest booking and planning for shows on 4Music, ITV2, Channel 5, 5USA, 5* and

online through their various partners and channels. He recently began producing a weekly show about all things Glee called The Gleekly for Sky, presented by Will Best.

Tim DyeBBC Audio & Music

1449AM URB

Tim got involved with student radio at 1449AM URB (Bath University) initially intending to just do a show once a week, but ended up becoming Head of Marketing and then the Station Manager. Instead of getting out of student radio when he graduated, Tim was elected to become Marketing Officer for the Student Radio Association (SRA) and then the Chair of the SRA the following year. After three years working at BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2, he is now on a three month attachment at BBC Audio & Music HQ working on a variety of projects.

Abi WilleyITN Productions

LCR

My radio career didn’t really take off after LCR so I had a go at organising events at The Radio Academy before trying out website editing at KISS & Magic 105.4. That went really well, so I moved to integrated marketing agency Big, to create and develop digital platforms for all sorts of other brands.

Turn the page to meetall your judges....

Abi WilleyFuse Digital

Adam BowieHead of Strategy &

PlanningAbsolute Radio

Adam CatterallPresenter & Voice Over

Artist

Adam HeyhurstVisual and TV Producer

BBC Radio 1

Adam WilbournePresenter

Orion Media

Alex DuffyBreakfast Presenter

The Pulse

Alex Kenning Radio ProducerSomethin’ Else

Ali Rezakhani Freelance

Ally McCraePresenter

BBC Introducing Scotland

Amy Gladwell Broadcast Journalist

BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat

Andrea Day Communications & Training Manager

Traffliclink

Andrea FoxBreakfast Presenter

Juice Brighton

Andrew Bailey News Editor

Absolute Radio

Andrew WrightCEO

Wright Communicators

Anna CooksonPresenter & Producer

Freelance

Annabel Port Presenter

Absolute Radio

Annie MacPresenter

BBC Radio 1

Beccy HuxtableAssistant Producer

Scott MillsBBC Radio 1

Becky AndersonAsisstant Producer

WestwoodBBC Radio 1Xtra

Ben Cooper Acting Controller

BBC Radio 1, 1Xtra, Asian Network & BBC Switch

Ben McGrailPresenter

BBC Somerset

Ben Mundy Broadcast Journalist


Ben TooneBBC Radio 4

Chloe StrawProducer

Bite Yer Legs

Chris BuckleyDeputy Programme

ControllerSignal Radio

Chris Doidge(TBC)

Over 500 entries from

56 different student radio

stations.

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Chris NorthJoint Managing Director

& Head of TalentWise Buddah Creative

Chris Sawyer(TBC)

Chris StevensGroup Production

DirectorGMG Radio

Claire ThomasExecutive Producer

BBC Introducing

Clara RavenLive Music and Events

BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra

Colin Murray Presenter

BBC Radio 5Live

Dari SamuelsProducer Mistajam

BBC Radio 1Xtra

Dave Cribb Comedy Producer

BBC 5Live

Dave SherwoodHead of Music

UTV Local Radio

David GarridoPresenter and Reporter

Sky Sports News

David LloydProgramme & Marketing

DirectorOrion Media

Dellessa JamesProducer

BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra

Denis NowlanNetwork Manager

BBC Radio 4

Elliott Spiteri Talksport

Emma Newman Producer

Absolute Radio

Fergus DudleyEditor

Radio 2, 6Music & Asian Network

Fiona HanlonAssistant Producer

BBC Radio 1

Gaby O’DonnellDeputy Editor


Gareth GwynnComedy Writer

BBC Radio 4

Gemma CairneyPresenter

BBC Radio 1Xtra

Geoff LloydPresenter

Absolute Radio

Georgina Potts(TBC)

Greg James Presenter

BBC Radio 1

Harriett JenningsFeatures Editor & Station

ControllerThis is DIY

Heather Davies Producer

TDC

Helen GrimesSenior Broadcast

JournalistBBC Radio Devon

Helena AntoniadesProducer

BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra

Howard BanksProducer

BRMB

Huw StephensPresenter

BBC Radio 1

Iain SawbridgeHead of Marketing

BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra

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Ian BrannanHead of Presentation

Real Radio

Ian ChalonerAssistant Producer

BBC Radio 1

James BurseyProducer for Nick

GrimshawBBC Radio 1

James Clark Producer

BBC Radio 1

James CridlandManaging Director

Media UK

James Forster Assistant Producer

BBC Radio 1Xtra

James LloydFreelance PresenterBBC and Hallam FM

James StoddSenior Producer BBC

Radio XtrailsBBC Creative Marketing

James WalsheProgramme DirectorKerrang and Q Radio

Jamie LaundonSystems Integration

SpecialistRCS

Jen LongPresenter

BBC Introducing Wales

Jimmy BucklandDirector of Strategy

UTV Media

Jo MeekSpeech Radio Executive

ProducerWise Buddah Creative

Jocelin StainerExecutive Producer

BBC Radio 1Xtra

Joff HopkinsGroup Music Scheduler and Network Presenter

Tindle Radio

John LawleyTalent Manager

Wise Buddah

John Plunkett(TBC)

John RyanManaging EditorBBC Manchester

John SimonsGroup Programme

DirectorGMG Radio

Jon HolmesPresenter & PerformerBBC 6Music & Radio 4

Jonathan PascoeProducer

ITN Productions

Jonathan SavageBBC London

Justin KingsHead of News

Bauer Media North East & Cumbria

Kasey Clarke Producer

BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra

Kate Arkless GrayEditor

Audioboo

Katie Lamborn(TBC)

Laura Tannenbaum Brand ManagerAbsolute Radio

Lee PriceHead of Station Sound

Absolute Radio

Liz BraceCreative Writer &

ProducerTalksport

Louise PepperBBC London TV & Radio

18

Lynsey HooperFreelance Football

Reporter & Presenter

Madeline LownBroadcast Journalist


Mark Crossley Presenter

Absolute Radio

Mark GrinnellEditor

BBC Devon

Mark Lockett ProducerTalksport

Mark MatthewsProgramme Director

Real Radio

Mark RyanExecutive Producer and

PresenterAmazing Radio

Marsha ShandurFreelance

Matt DeeganCreative Director

Folder Media

Matt Jamison Programme Director

Amazing Radio

Matt WillisAssistant Producer

Above the Title

Matthew SchofieldMorning News Presenter

BBC London

MistajamPresenter

BBC Radio 1Xtra

Neil Sloan(TBC)

Nick HumfreyTechnical Architect for

Music and Radio OnlineBBC

Nick JeffreyRadio Interference

AnalystBBC

Nicky BirchRadio Development

Somethin’ Else

Nicky EdwardsBBC Radio 5Live

Nicky NessController

BFBS Radio

Paul FaircloughDeputy Programme

ControllerSignal Radio

Paul Plant Director of Jingles &

Imaging MusicWise Buddah

Paul RodgersEditor

BBC 6Music

Paul SylvesterHead of Presentation

Absolute Radio

Paul ThomasProducer

BBC Radio 1

Pete DonaldsonPresenter

Absolute Radio

Peter GeeHead of Creative

Talksport

Over 130 judges from

across the media, radio

and education industries.


Phil SmithProducer Shaun Keavney

BBC 6Music

Rachel HoughtonReal Radio

Rhys HughesExecutive Producer

Chris Moyles, Fearne Cotton & Dev BBC Radio 1

Richard BanksContent Producer

BBC 6Music & Radio 2

Ricky Marshall Assistant Producer

Steve Wright’s Sunday Love Songs BBC Radio 2

Rod McKenzieEditor

BBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat, BBC Radio 1Xtra News and Revealed

on BBC Switch

Rowan CollinsonProducer

Somethin’ Else

Sam BaileyMusic Events EditorBBC Audio & Music

Interactive

Sam GregoryExecutive Producer

Round 2 Creative

Samanthi Presenter

This Morning

Sarah GhostCommunications Officer

London South Bank University

Scott Mills Presenter

BBC Radio 1

Simon GreenBreakfast Producer

Tower, Wire and Wish FM

Simon LongDeputy Programme

DirectorKISS

Sophie LawDeputy Programme

DirectorJack FM and Glide FM

Sophie MillerTechnical Broadcast

AssistantBBC Radio 1’s Newsbeat

Steve Harris Presenter

BBC Radio Solent

Steve LamacqPresenter

BBC 6Music

Talia KrainesEntertainment Liaison

Bauer Media

Tom GreenExecutive Producer

Somethin’ Else

Tony Moorey Content DirectorAbsolute Radio

Tulip MazumdarPresenter


Tim DyeBBC Audio & Music

Interactive

Tim JohnsBroadcast Assistant &

Station Sound ProducerBBC Lincolnshire

Vicki BlightPresenter

Absolute Radio

Will Jackson(TBC)

Over an amazing

56 hours of audio

in total.


ABSOLUTE RADIO & USP CONTENT ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT STUDENT RADIO

ABSOLUTE RADIO & USP CONTENT ARE PROUD TO SUPPORT STUDENT RADIO

During the Easter holidays in 2011, over 40 student stations arrived at The University of Hertfordshire for a 3 day conference with some of the biggest names in the radio industry taking part in talks, practical sessions and just as importantly, if not more, drinking sessions!

Around 350 people attended the biggest conference the Student Radio Association has held to date, with fantastic events throughout including the ‘I Love Student Radio Awards’, ‘Voice of the Awards’ and ‘Demo Factor’.

The conference was hosted by Crush Radio volunteers (the orange crew) who gained invaluable experience and knowledge from the event. Some also went onto find work placements and jobs from the contacts they made through hosting the conference and working with the industry professionals that attended the event.

The National Student Radio Conference 2011 was a massive success, here is what some of you guys said on twitter about your time at herts:


For those who may not know, every year at the Student Radio Conference a new voice is chosen to record all the announcements for tonights now legendary awards ceremony. Former winners and runners up have gone on to become professional voice over artistes working with stations such as BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra.

This year auditionees had to impress judges Matt Fisher (Station Sound Producer, BBC Radio 1 & BBC Radio 1Xtra), John Lawley (Talent Manager, Wise Buddah Voice Over Agency) and Matt Wilkinson (Presenter, Heart FM and the voice of Blockbuster).

Congratulations to the winners, Hollie Clarke and Ryan Arnold, whose voices will be delighting our auditory senses with the ceremony announcements this evening. As well as recording the audio for tonight, their prize includes the chance to record their very own personalised professional voice reel produced by Wise Buddah and a further voice audition with BBC Radio 1.

Thanks to the judges for their time and support and to Crush Radio for making the trip to Hatfield so much fun. Thanks to Ben Townsend and his excellent compositions for tonight’s Awards theme and, of course, Wise Buddah Studios for their time, patience and as ever, fast turn around.

Enjoy your Evening,John Lawley

To find out more about the Wise Buddah Voice Over Agency please visit: www.wisebuddahvoices.com

Hollie Clarke is a former station manager of Shock Radio and has been heavily involved with student radio for three years. While she admits that she absolutely loved it unfortunately she’s now graduated but is really excited to be the Voice of the Awards this evening.

Ryan Arnold is currently in his final year studying Radio Production at De Montfort University in Leicester and played a big role at Demon FM both presenting and producing shows for the station. He’s also a professional DJ and plays weekly residencies at some of the biggest clubs in Leicester.

Ben Townsend ran URN from 2008 - 2010 during which time he produced a complete overhaul of their station sound, from beds and news themes, to IDs and ‘Ntros’.

Since then he has worked at BBC Radio 5 live; on jingle packages for stations in Canada and Ireland; and spoken at the National Student Radio Conference 2011, Lambeth College and on the podcast series ‘The Earshot Creative Review’ about his work in student radio.

He is now a freelance radio imaging and music producer who has worked most recently with Wise Buddah Jingles and Music Imaging, and on station sound at BBC Radio 1.

Kevin was one of the very best at his craft. Where ever he was asked to present a radio show he was always able to instill his uniquely entertaining and dry sense of humour into even the tightest of radio formats.

Whether it was a commercial music format during his time at Smooth Radio and XFM or a more speech based format whilst presenting the BBC Radio 1 Breakfast Show and various shows across BBC Radio 5 Live; he took a delight in perfecting the production and preparation of each and every small element of his show.

It was this attention to detail and absolute focus on the output and that made his style of broadcasting seem effortless. Whether it was the ‘Joke du jour’, ’60 second cinema’ or one of the characters he created such as ‘Major Hold-Ups’, the punch line had to entertain, and always did.

Tonight the fourth Kevin Greening Award will be presented to a very worthy winner; a piece of radio that follows Kevin’s own radio philosophy and which highlights the spirit and creativity of all

those who have ever been involved with student radio.

Kevin started off in radio at a student station and during his professional career always took an active role in its promotion, especially during his tenure as Chair of these Awards. He was a genuinely warm and generous person and it’s a testament to his adaptability as a presenter that so many stations were eager to employ him. It was an absolute honour and privilege to have managed such a driven and inspirational broadcaster.

Chris NorthJoint MD and Head of TalentWise Buddah

Everything about tonight would not have been possible without the support, guidance and job-endangering dedication of some of the people below. There is simply not enough room to properly mention everyone, but we want you all to know that we truly appreciate everything you’ve done for us this year - even if it meant giving Kyle a hi-five when he was feeling stressed out! Thankyou, from the bottom of our hearts! The level of support we receive from the professional industry constantly surprises us and it’s only thanks to all our sponsors that we can put on such a fantastic event tonight. A huge “cheers” must go to each of them for their continuing to support and dedication to student radio. A special thanks must go to BBC Radio 1. As headline sponsors they have helped us our every step along the way. We’d like to take this moment to mention former Controller, Andy Parfitt who has always been a fantastic supporter of student radio. During his time at BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra he managed to raise the profile of student radio throughout the industry, proving its importance and standing. Andy, thank you. This year at Radio 1 we’d like to thank Jocelin Stainer who has been a fantastic liaison between the SRA and Yalding House. We would also like thanks our co-headline sponsors, PPL, for their continued support of the Awards. But there’s more! I’d like to recognize other areas of the BBC for helping with this year’s awards: Radio 4, Five Live and 6Music, who have all been brilliant sponsors!

We are particularly pleased this year to be able to include sponsors from right across the radio industry. Special thanks must go to Paul Sylvester of Absolute Radio, James Rea and Chris Stevens from GMG Radio, and Ric Blaxhill of Bauer Media.

A massive thank you must to go all of this years judges (over 100 of them!). These people dedicate a huge amount of their valuable personal time to make the awards possible - all because they enjoy encouraging new talent, and supporting student radio. We would like to thank our Head Judges Tim Dye, Sarah Ghost, Abi Willey and Jonathan Pascoe, who have had the hard task of marshaling judges up and down the country. Special thanks must go to Sarah Ghost who once again has gone above and beyond the required workload and been a huge help to the SRA Executive over the past few months.

Thanks also to Annie Mac, Chair of the Awards, and our hosts tonight, Scott Mills, and Huw Stephens. This is Annie’s first year as Chair of the Awards, we hope that she’ll love it, and will continue to help support student radio in the coming years. Thanks also to John Lawley and everyone at Wise Buddah for putting together the majority of tonight’s audio and videos, especially to Ben Townsend for creating our soundtrack for this evening. Thanks to Scott Robinson (also our Web Officer), who tonight is running our live stream, live blogging and social media output, and to Adam Edworthy for our amazing awards graphics. Also Kenny England who is the SRA’s super designer, who had the huge job of putting together this very thing you hold in your hands!

I’d also like to thank Solent Productions for being brilliant in filming the awards, and always picking up on new suggestions to improve their output for us and to the London South Bank

University photographers (make sure you smile for them)! Thanks to Kenny and Lorna from IndigO2 for allowing us to hassle them for the fourth year running.

The SRA Executive also deserve a huge thank you for their tireless efforts in coordinating this year’s awards, particularly our events officer, Kyle Wilkinson. Special thanks also go to Matt Hurst, who deals with the SRA’s finances and makes sure we don’t go bankrupt, Thom Palser, our membership and communications officer, Laurence Moreton our marketing officer for securing a lot of support for external companies and radio groups. Lee Sevenoaks, and his team of regional officers for arranging last month’s regional nominations and our first ever I Love Student Radio Day events.

Finally we must thank you - the up and comers - for making tonight the reason we all get together, celebrate and get excited about the future of the industry! You’re awesome!

Cheers!

Fred Bradley--Chair | Student Radio Association


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