KUT 90.5FM Austin USA, Pirate Group Inc., Canada, and RTE Radio, Ireland top NYF International Radio Awards

GLOBAL – NEW YORK, USA, JUNE 2011 – New York Festivals International Radio Program & Promotions Awards celebrated its award winners on June 20 at the 2011 Radio Awards ceremony in New York City. This year’s Grand Jury awarded three Grand Trophies: KUT 90.5FM Austin, Texas; Pirate Group Inc., Canada; and RTE Radio, Ireland.

 

KUT 90.5FM Austin, Texas was awarded a Grand Trophy in the Culture & The Arts category for “Piece of My Heart – The Story of Janis Joplin.”  

 

Pirate Group Inc. earned a Grand Trophy for “Age of Persuasion Goes to the Movies” for the CBC, winning in the Business/Consumer Issues category.  The entry explores great movie marketing, discussing the way Hollywood sold its films.

 

RTE Radio, Ireland was honored with a Grand Trophy for “Documentary on One – Don’t Go Far,” taking home the Grand in the Profiles/Community Portraits category.  This entry tells the odyssey of two young Dublin boys whose wanderlust finds them stowing away onto a flight at London’s Heathrow bound for New York’s JFK International Airport. 

 

RTE Radio also earned the Broadcaster of the Year Award.  Richard Downes (pictured), RTE Radio Washington Correspondent accepted the award.  In addition to the Grand Trophy, RTE also took home 8 Gold Awards, 2 Silver, 3 Bronze, and 2 Finalist Certificates for their distinguished entries.

 

For the first time, a new award was launched for NYF’s Radio Awards, Production Company of the Year.  Pirate Group Inc. was honored with this prestigious new award, work taking home, 1 Grand Trophy, 1 Gold Trophy, 2 Silver, and 1 Bronze. Terry O’Reilly, Pirate Radio Co-Founder accepted the award.

 

 

“Winning the Production Company of the Year at the New York Festivals was incredible news for us at Pirate. We’re so passionate about radio that to be recognized at a competition where 27 countries compete at the highest level is a dream come true,” said Terry O’Reilly, Pirate Radio Co-Founder & Host of CBC Radio’s Age of Persuasion. 

 

Each year the New York Festivals, in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Public Information Award, appoints a panel to select work that exemplifies the aims and ideals of the United Nations. Their selections are awarded the United Nations Department of Public Information Award.  The 2011 UNDPI Awards were presented by Juan Carlos Brandt, Chief of Advocacy and Special Events in the United Nations’ Department of Public Information.  UNDPI Award recipients include: WNYC Radio Rookies entry “Flushing Series” was recognized with the Gold UNDPI Award in the Profiles/Community Portraits category; Radio Television Hong Kong, received the Silver UNDPI Award for “Mandela and South Africa” in the History category; and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation earned the Bronze UNDPI Award for “The Sunday Edition, Habtom’s Path” in the Profiles/Community Portraits category.

 

This year’s international Grand Jury awarded 36 Gold, 42 Silver, and 46 Bronze Trophies.  In addition, 59 entries received Finalist Certificates.  Now in its twenty-ninth year of honoring “The World’s Best Radio Programs & Promotions™,” the competition honors the most original and innovative work in radio broadcasting, with entries from radio stations, networks, and independent producers from around the world.  For a complete list of this year’s award winners go to: www.newyorkfestivals.com/worldsbestradio.