The Frank Gillard Awards are awards for BBC Local Radio stations in the UK. They are named after Frank Gillard who initiated the BBC's local radio network. The award is a head of Frank Gillard and is given as Gold, Silver and Bronze degrees.
The annual Frank Gillard Awards were launched in 2000 in memory of the war correspondent and founder of BBC Local Radio. Their aim is to recognise achievements and encourage excellence in the programming at BBC Local Radio stations across England. [1]
Not all categories are awarded each year.
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station replaced the BBC Home Service on 30 September 1967 and broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. The station controller is Mohit Bakaya.
BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the state media outlet British Broadcasting Corporation. The service provides national radio stations covering the majority of musical genres, as well as local radio stations covering local news, affairs and interests. It also oversees online audio content.
BBC Radio 5 Live is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts mainly news, sport, discussion, interviews and phone-ins. It is the principal BBC radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors.
BBC Radio Norfolk is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Norfolk.
BBC Local Radio is the BBC's local and regional radio division for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of forty stations.
BBC Radio Berkshire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Berkshire.
BBC Radio Derby is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Derbyshire.
BBC Radio London is the BBC's local radio station serving Greater London.
BBC Radio Leeds is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of West Yorkshire.
BBC Radio York is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of North Yorkshire.
BBC Hereford & Worcester is the BBC's local radio station serving the counties of Herefordshire and Worcestershire, which were one county from 1974 to 1998.
BBC CWR is the BBC's local radio station serving Coventry and Warwickshire.
Cam FM is a student-run radio station at the University of Cambridge and Anglia Ruskin University. The station broadcasts online and an FM frequency of 97.2 MHz. The station opened studios at Anglia Ruskin University and Fitzwilliam College, and started broadcasting in 2012 from these locations after having spent its first 32 years located in Churchill College. Cam FM once held the world record for the longest team broadcast marathon, at 76 hours, and following the significant technical overhaul as a result of the two new studios in 2012, provided the first ever broadcast media coverage of the Oxford vs Cambridge Women's Boat Race from Dorney Lake, as well as live outside broadcasts from Newmarket Races and the Varsity Ski Trip.
This is a timeline of the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Sonia Deol is an English radio and television presenter of Indian descent.
Timothy Paul Dellor is a radio presenter on BBC Radio.
Nicholas Pandolfi, also known as Nick Pandolfi, is an English actor, voice artist & radio presenter, who has worked for the BBC and Global Radio (HEART). He was named BBC Local Radio "Presenter of the Year" at the 2004 Frank Gillard Awards and won the bronze in the category in 2006 for his work at BBC Radio Suffolk. He left the station in 2007.
Francis George Gillard was a BBC executive, reporter and radio innovator.
Marcos Young is an associate senior lecturer in broadcast journalism at Coventry University's Department of Media and Communication.
Gerard Evelyn Herbert "Gerry" Mansell was a BBC executive, most famous for reorganising BBC Radio into Radio 2, 3 and 4 as controller of the BBC Home Service, and for a political conflict early in Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister.