Rookwood Sound Online | Awards 2005 

Last Updated: 04-May-2011
 
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National Hospital Radio Awards 2005

Belfast - Saturday 2nd April!

Rookwood Sound takes Bronze Award in Station of the Year!

Your Rookwood Sound were nominated in 3 categories at the Hospital Radio Awards 2005 which took place on Saturday 2nd April 2005 at the Europa Hotel in Belfast, as part of the HBA conference weekend.

The awards were broadcast in a special show on the station allowing our listeners to hear the results as we did!

We were commended for our entries in the Best Specialist Music Programme (Edward Fish's Sunday show), Best Sports Output (Charlie Brown and Phil Hardy) and the biggest award Bronze in the Station of the Year category.

This award makes us Wales Best Hospital Radio Station, and 3rd best station across the UK.

You can listen to your Rookwood Sounds Award winning Station of the Year entry at www.hbauk.com

Below are the categories we were nominated in!

Click here for the nominations 'live' from the awards

First Picture © Hospital Broadcasting Association 2005; Second and Third Pictures © Garry Lakin Photography
Here are the categories we entered in...

Station of the Year 
This is the main award in the competition. Entries were required to submit a maximum 15-minute stand-alone documentary style recording featuring extracts from their station output during 2004, giving the judges an insight into the station, the hospitals they broadcast to, style of presentation and programme content.

Best Specialised Music
Entries were required to be 5-minute duration showing the judges the presenter's knowledge of the music in question. E.g. an event guide/what's on feature relating to the show. These programmes could include jazz, classical, country, religious etc.

Best Sports Output
Entries were required to submit a 10-minute compilation for this award, which includes both studio sports output along with material broadcast from sporting events i.e. football or rugby commentaries. The judges will be looking for the presenter's knowledge of sport and also the diversity of the sports coverage of the station.

The John Whitney Award

This award is open to anyone working in hospital radio whether they are part of the presentation team, an engineer, fundraiser or hospital visit. Entries for this category are to be written (no recordings required). The sponsor, the Radio Academy has issued the following guidelines.