The fabulous Lyrath Hotel in Kilkenny was the venue for the 2024 IMRO Radio Awards last Friday – a celebration of all that is great in audio in Ireland. The star studded event saw Dermot Whelan return as host, and his hilarious critique of radio in Ireland set the tone for a great night.
It was an incredibly successful night for the urbanmedia represented stations with wins in some of the most prestigious categories. This included WLR FM winning local station of the year and the urban media digital team winning the Best Social and Digital Innovation for the work they did on FM104’s Quid Games with Graham and Nathan. Our brilliant on-air talent was recognised with Simon Murdoch of Cork’s 96FM winning Gold in the Radio DJ of the Year category while Zeinab Elguzouli from FM104’s Strawberry Alarm Clock won best newcomer. The Michael Reade Show on LMFM took home the coveted Local Current Affairs Show while FYI Galway on Galway Bay FM won Best Local News Programme, highlighting the great informative content the stations are creating on a daily basis.
The brilliant fundraising and awareness work that Cork’s 96fm does was again recognised as they took home gold in the Community/ Social Action category for Cork’s 96FM Giving for Living Radiothon. The future of our planet was also in focus as WLR FM won out in the Sustainability category with their thought provoking 10 part series Waterford in Action – A Climate Discussion.
Lastly Dublin’s Q102 beat off significant competition to win the Sports Story of the Year with “Doubters to believers, Jurgen, Liverpool and the Irish reds” which was created by the Dublin News team, including recently appointed TalkSPORT Ireland editor Luke Delany.
A further 9 silver and bronze awards made for a brilliant night of celebration and everyone at urbanmedia passes on our congratulations to all of the winners!!
Full details of the winners:
GOLD
- FM104 – Zeinab Elguzouli – Gay Byrne award, Newcomer of the year
- Cork’s 96FM – Simon Murdoch – Radio DJ of the year
- LMFM – Michael Reade Show – Current affairs show local/regional
- FM104 – FM104 Quid games with Graham and Nathan – Digital/Social innovation
- Cork’s 96FM – 96FM Radiothon – Community/social action
- Dublin’s Q102 – Doubters to believers, Jurgen, Liverpool and the Irish reds – Sports Story
- Galway Bay FM- FYI Galway – Blockades, Bottles and Birthdays – News Programme
- WLR FM- Waterford in Action – A Climate Discussion
- WLR FM- The Sound of Waterford – Local Station of the Year
SILVER
- Cork’s 96FM – Lorraine and Ross in the morning – Entertainment inserts
- Cork’s 96FM – Brian McEvoy – Radio DJ of the year
- Dublin’s Q102 – Q102 lunchtime news – News programme Local/regional
- Cork’s 96FM – Music station of the year
- LMFM – Go back to your country, exposing exploitation – Radio moment of the year
BRONZE
- C103 – Up for the match – Sports programme local/regional
- LMFM – Why me – Radio Moment of the year
- Galway Bay FM- Plugged In Lyra Special – Irish Music programme or initiative
- WLR FM- WLR Men’s Health Matters – Community/Social Action
