[cma-l] [comradio-l] Community Radio & the Sony Radio Academy Awards

[Richard Hilton]

All this talk about creating a 35th Sony Award reminded me about the 
recent Grammy's - the music awards in the USA.  Loads of publicity in 
the press but did you realize there are 110 Grammy categories!?  I was 
interested as one of my favourite bands were up for an award albeit in 
category 77 (they won as well!). But surely it devalues the whole 
process to have so many categories?

Even at 34 awards The Sony Awards begins to sound overcrowded.  We 
should be more confident about what we do and shouldn't settle for the 
an award that might look like a ghetto award added on at the end.  It's 
time to have confidence in what makes us so special and go head to head 
against the so-called professionals.

Richard Hilton
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