[cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011

[kamal]

Hi all.
Don't comment too much here but do find all conversations useful.
Industry sector specific awards sounds like a great idea although I can see that there might be problems deciding what all the categories would be. These are not insurmountable as the SRA shows.
We need recognition of the diversity and quality of programming and stations and our own awards would be as vigilantly assessed as any Sonys so they would never be considered 'second class' or 'irrelevant' as I am sure some would portray them (no-one here though).
My penn'orth.
Kamal Prashar




-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Steers <martin at martinsteers.co.uk>
Sent: 04 April 2011 16:38
To: Joanne Schofield <joanne at bcfm.org.uk>
Cc: CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk>; Ed Baxter <ed at resonancefm.com>
Subject: Re: [cma-l] Sony Radio Academy Awards 2011

Why not celebrate our own as our own?

Why not have the CRA - Community Radio Awards? After a while they will have
their own prestige and standing. Like the student radio awards that are now
held in some regard within the industry, its also a great event to celebrate
a growing great sector of radio. Not to mention if people start putting
awards in with that, get good feedback not only does it allow them to grow
as a station / show / presenter but also give them experience in putting
submissions together for things like the sonys..

Would be more than happy to be involved in a project like this, i have some
experience of the SRA awards, putting submissions together etc

Martin

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Joanne Schofield <joanne at bcfm.org.uk>wrote:



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