Recognising the best in Irish Radio Broadcasting, the annual IMRO Radio Awards 2024 took place on Friday night last (4 Oct) at the Lyrath Estate in Kilkenny where Bauer Media Audio Ireland emerged as one of the biggest winners of the night with a total of 45 awards including 17 gold wins including the major categories of National Station of the Year for Newstalk and Music Station of the Year for Red FM. Newstalk also took home gold for Radio Moment of the Year with “Who Cares for the Carers?”
Cork’s Good Times – Red FM was named the IMRO Radio Awards Music Station of the Year. Picture Andres Poveda
The IMRO Radio Awards Radio Moment of the Year was The Who Cares for the Carers? Newstalk. Picture Andres Poveda
This year’s awards saw an unprecedented number of entries, highlighting the unwavering passion and creativity thriving within the sector.
In addition, the IMRO 24 Outstanding Achievement Award went to the Beat 102 103.
Digital Media Literacy Tour for secondary schools. which saw Beat’s multi-platform content creators delivering 41 bilingual digital media literacy information sessions, on site, at twenty different secondary schools.
The wins didn’t stop at golds though with Bauer Media Audio Ireland also winning 10 silver and 18 bronze in a diverse range of categories including Music, News & Sport, Speech, General, People and Stations.
The full list of awards for Bauer Media Audio Ireland are:
- General Music Programme – Ray Foley / Today FM
- Specialist Music Programme – The Tom Dunne Show / Newstalk
- Irish Music Programme – Claire Beck / Today FM
- News Event – Dublin Riots / Newstalk
- News Programme – Dublin Riots / Newstalk
- Current Affairs Programme – The Hard Shoulder / Newstalk
- Sports Programme – Off The Ball
- Short Feature – Henry McKean / Newstalk
- On-Air Competition / Promotion – The Grand Tour / iRadio
- Station Imaging – Today FM
- Entertainment Inserts – Gift Grub / Today FM
- Sports Broadcaster – Nathan Murphy
- Speech Broadcaster – Neil Prendeville
Chris Doyle, CEO Bauer Media Audio Ireland said; “Every day our talented teams have one ambition, to create radio and content that engages, informs and entertains audiences. Thanks to our brilliant teams for their excellent work and to the listeners across Ireland for their support. We could not be more pleased to be recognised on such a scale at this year’s awards – an important showcase for a radio industry that is in rude health”