AN Edinburgh University student was, on Thursday night, named a winner at the Student Radio Awards.
Calum Macdonald took the title, Best Male [presenter], at the awards, which also saw his university’s radio station, FreshAir, remarkably take both gold and silver in the Best Event or Outside Broadcast category.
The full winners’ list reads, as follows:
Best Event or Outside Broadcast
Gold: EDQT – FreshAir
Silver: White Paper Day Publication – FreshAir
Bronze: The Welsh Varsity 2014 – Xpress Radio
The Student Radio Chart Show Award
Gold: Pure FM
Silver: The Cat 1251
Bronze: Radio Sonar
Best Technical Achievement
Gold: Responsive Radio – 1449AM URB
Silver: Studio in a Box – Purple Radio
Bronze: Nerve Extra – Nerve Radio
Best Interview
Gold: Luke Jones interview Lord Carey – KCL Radio
Silver: Boscastle: Ten Years On – SCRATCH RADIO
Bronze: Jay Lawrence interviews Matty from The 1975 – Livewire
Best Speech Programming
Gold: Sound in Silence – IC Radio
Silver: Brief History of You – URN
Bronze: RavenTales Original Series – CROWE – 1449AM URB
Best Journalistic Programming
Gold: The Student Underworld – SCRATCH RADIO
Silver: River Safety: York’s Rising Problem – URY
Bronze: The Pulse – URN
Best Specialist Music Programming
Gold: Eclectic Sessions – Hub Radio
Silver: Maddie’s Tea Party – Livewire
Bronze: Last Donut of the Night – 1449AM URB
Best Entertainment Programme
Gold: Sean Montague & Emily Sandford – Nerve Radio
Silver: Afternoons with Jay Lawrence – Livewire
Bronze: Maddie’s Tea Party – Livewire
Best Newcomer
Gold: George Ward – Radio ENRG
Silver: Jonny McGuigan – Leeds Student Radio
Bronze: Daniel Miller – W.A.C Radio
Best Marketing and Station Sound
Gold: Shock Radio
Silver: URN
Bronze: Purple Radio
Best Female
Gold: Izzie Clarke – URN
Silver: Victoria Payne – Leeds Student Radio
Bronze: Emily Sandford – Nerve Radio
Best Male
Gold: Calum Macdonald – FreshAir
Silver: Joel Grove – CSR
Bronze: Louis Chadwick – Shock Radio
The Kevin Greening Creativity Award
Brain Storm – Wired Radio
Silver: James Hanson – Leeds Student Radio
Bronze: Sean Montague and Emily Sandford – Nerve Radio
Best Student Radio Station
Gold – URN
Silver – 1449AM URB
Bronze – 107 Spark FM
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