C.93FM wins top award

Press, 12 September 1988, Page 7

C.93FM wins top award

By

NIGEL MALTHUS

A Christchurch radio station, C.93FM, has won five awards including Most Outstanding World Radio Station, in the Bicentennial International Pater Awards for Broadcasting Excellence.

The awards were announced at the Brisbane Expo at the weekend.

The Paters, organised by the Australian Academy of Broadcast and Sciences, are regarrded as second only to the New York Radio and Television Festivals in electronic media awards and this year attracted 1660 entries from 322 organisations in 46 countries. C.93FM’s station manager, Mr Steven Marshall, said he was pleased with his station’s success, and emphasised that it was a team effort. “The whole station has worked really hard, and I think we deserve it,” he said.

C.93FM’s other big success was Most Outstanding World Radio Programme Director, won by John Taylor.

He returned from Brisbane yesterday with Paters also for the best radio commercial for clothing, the best radio commercial for leisure, and the best industry innovation, for the station’s “Concert in the Theatre of Your Mind” programme.

Radio New Zealand also had much to celebrate, with 33 awards — the most for any radio organisation — including the Grand Pater, awarded to the director-general of Radio New Zealand, Ms Beverley Wakem.

She was voted the most outstanding broadcaster of the year and won the Grand Pater for her “distinguished service in a

career of exceptional merit.”

Radio New Zealand’s Auckland station, Newstalk . IZB, won eight awards, more than any other single station.

Radio New Zealand stations in Christchurch also featured, 3ZB winning two awards for commercials, and, in the Australasian award category, the award for the best metropolitan community project. That was awarded for its Radiothon in aid of the Child Cancer Foundation’s Canterbury Accommodation Trust.

John Tyler, the sports frontman of ZM-FM’s Morning Team, won a Pater for the best regular sports programme. In total, the New Zealand radio industry, including the private stations, Radio New Zealand, and affiliated organisations, won 64 of the 160 radio Paters. They included most of the top honours.

Television New Zealand ahieved similar success, winning six Paters from nine entries.

They included Best One-Off Documentary, for “Wild South” documentary on the Adelie penguin, and the Best Adult Education Programme, which went to the Christchurchproduced “Fast Forward,” for its episode about a deaf Christchurch woman whose hearing was restored by an electronic implant.