The SonyRadio Academy Awards (the Sonys), started in 1983, are some of the most prestigious awards in the British radio industry. The categories for the award are decided by an annual committee, with the aim to include all the main genres from contemporary music, news and speech through to radio drama, and not discriminating against station size, or niche categories. Jump to: navigation, search Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758), NYSE: SNE is a global Japanese consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Radio Academy is a registered charity that acts as a professional body for the radio industry in the United Kingdom.
Often referred to as 'the SonyAwards' (after their principal sponsor), the awards celebrate everything from the biggest and best national radio shows to small shows by local stations.
Radio stations or DJs wanting to enter the awards must edit the best bits of their show together.
The first words spoken on Radio 1 - after a "countdown" by the Controller of Radios 1 and 2, Robin Scott, and a jingle, recorded at PAMS in Detroit, Michigan, beginning "The voice of Radio 1" - were "...
Radio 1 initially broadcast on 1214 kHz mediumwave (or 247 metres as it was referred to at the time) and moved to 1053/1089 kHz (275/285 metres) in 1978 (it was the only BBC National station without a dedicated FM frequency).
This practice has also been used in Radio 1's T in the Park coverage where broadcasts to Scotland provide extended coverage of the festival, that the rest of the United Kingdom does not receive, they instead have the normal Radio 1 schedule at that time, This has been presented by Vic Galloway in recent years.
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