Chris Evans named radio's personality of the year
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Your support makes all the difference.Comeback kid Chris Evans was named Music Radio Personality of the Year at the industry's equivalent of the Oscars.
The Radio 2 star triumphed at the Sony Radio Academy Awards, beating Jamie Theakston of Heart 106.2, Lauren Laverne of Xfm, Marc Riley of BBC 6 Music and Virgin's Tim Lovejoy.
Evans, sacked from Virgin Radio in 2001 after embarking on a very public drinking binge, returned to the airwaves last year with a Saturday afternoon show on Radio 2 and recently took over Johnnie Walker's drivetime slot.
His win will dismay the listeners who bombarded the station with angry emails after he was named as Walker's successor.
More than 1,000 listeners voiced their complaints - prompting Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas to issue a statement insisting Evans be given a chance.
Evans was also nominated for the Entertainment Award.
But he was beaten to the prize by Radio 1 breakfast show host Chris Moyles.
Radio 2 veteran Terry Wogan was honoured with the Gold Award for outstanding achievement.
The Irishman is the nation's most popular DJ, with eight million listeners regularly tuning in to his breakfast show Wake Up With Wogan.
Radio 1 had a good night - it was named UK Station of the Year and DJ Zane Lowe bagged two awards, for Specialist Music Programme and Music Broadcaster of the Year.
Radio 4 took seven awards, including Speech Broadcaster of the Year for Eddie Mair and News Journalist of the Year for Angus Stickler.
The station's six o'clock news bulletin won the News and Current Affairs Programme award.
Nick Ferrari of London station LBC won the Breakfast Show Award while the Speech Programme Award went to Stephen Nolan of BBC Radio Ulster.
Station Programmer of the Year was Richard Park of Magic 105.4.
Local station Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands scooped four awards including Station of the Year with a potential audience of over one million.
The awards took place at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane.
The nominees were selected from more than 1,400 entries across UK radio.
Full list of winners:
* Community Award
Hearing Voices - BBC Hereford & Worcester
* Live Event Coverage Award
The Boat Race 2005 - LBC Newsroom & Programming for LBC 97.3FM and LBC News
* Music Special Award
Lennon: The WennerTapes - BBC Radio 4
* Music Programme Award
Mornings with Rick Shaw - Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands
* Feature Award
A Requiem for St Kilda - BBC Radio 4
* Comedy Award
The Ape That Got Lucky - BBC Radio 4
* Drama Award
No Background Music - BBC Radio 4
* Competition Award
Xfm's Rock School - Xfm
* News and Current Affairs Programme Award
Six O'Clock News Bulletin - BBC Radio 4
* News Feature Award
Return to Sarajevo - BBC World Service
* Station Imaging Award
Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands
* Specialist Music Programme Award
Zane Lowe - BBC Radio 1
* Special Award
The Beethoven Experience - Radio 3
* Sports Programme Award
Fighting Talk - BBC Radio Five Live
* Station Programmer of the Year
Richard Park - Magic 105.4
* Interactive Programme Award
Scott Mills - BBC Radio 1
* Promo Award
Kerrang! Christmas - Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands
* Station of the Year: with a potential audience of under 300,000
Coast 96.3 (North Wales Coast)
* Speech Programme Award
The Stephen Nolan Show - BBC Radio Ulster
* Speech Broadcaster of the Year
Eddie Mair - BBC Radio 4
* Station of the Year: with a potential audience of 300,000 to 1 million
Pirate FM (Cornwall, Plymouth and West Devon)
* Breaking News Award
The London Bombings - GCap Media News for Capital Radio, 1548am Capital Gold, Xfm and Choice FM
* News Journalist of the Year
Angus Stickler - BBC Radio 4
* Station of the Year: with a potential audience of 1 million plus
Kerrang! 105.2 West Midlands
* Entertainment Award
Chris Moyles - BBC Radio 1
* Music Broadcaster of the Year
Zane Lowe - BBC Radio 1
* Music Radio Personality of the Year
Chris Evans - BBC Radio 2
* Breakfast Show Award
Nick Ferrari at Breakfast - LBC 97.3FM
* Digital Terrestrial Station of the Year
Planet Rock
* UK Station of the Year
Radio 1
* Gold Award
Terry Wogan
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