The extremely anticipated annual occasion from The Radio Academy celebrates the perfect of UK audio and radio. This may happen on Tuesday seventh Could at London’s Theatre Royal, Drury Lane within the coronary heart of the West Finish.
This would be the first ARIAS launched by the brand new Managing Director of The Radio Academy, Aradhana Tayal Leach. The awards acknowledge, honour, and reward excellent reveals and the groups behind them. Judged by over 200 senior audio and radio practitioners, drawn from all sectors of the trade, it’s an enormous accolade to be nominated.
Aradhna Tayal Leach, Managing Director of The Radio Academy says: “I really feel honored to be launching the ARIAS 2024, the primary awards of my tenure as Managing Director. We sit up for having all of our audio and radio friends from throughout our broad and rising neighborhood, come collectively for an evening of celebration. We’re proud to be international leaders in audio expertise and storytelling and might’t wait to showcase these tales the actually shine, not solely nationally however deep into our personal native communities too.”
Since 2023, The Radio Academy have labored with an impartial editorial advisor at The ARIAS, to supply steerage and proposals to judges. They don’t have govt resolution making, which stays uniquely with the judges, however could provide suggestions and context as acceptable.
The Radio Academy may also be working with an impartial EDI advisor to supply assist and steerage to make sure that fairness is embedded on the coronary heart of the ARIAS. This consists of providing insights into finest follow and highlights the influence of, for instance, unconscious bias when judging entries.
27 Classes will return subsequent yr, together with Greatest New Presenter, Greatest Music Breakfast Present and Greatest New Podcast. There may also be a change to a class; Greatest Sports activities Protection which was beforehand named Greatest Sports activities Present. This modification is to reward the stay nature of sports activities protection inside radio broadcasting. Sports activities documentaries ought to now be entered in both the 2 Greatest Factual Programmes. For full particulars of classes, go to the ARIAS web site.
Keep tuned on additional particulars on nominees and hosts within the New Yr…
