RT Wins Radio Broadcaster of the Year at New York Festival
RT Radio 1 and RT lyric fm take top international honour
RT has once again been honoured with the prestigious Broadcaster of the Year award at the 2015 New York Festivals International Radio Awards. Selected from finalists spanning 32 countries, this is third time RT has won this coveted radio award in recent years.
In 2011, RT radio services became the first Irish stations in the award ceremony's 55 year history to be awarded the accolade of Broadcaster of the Year. The following year, in 2012, RT brought home the top prize once again. After only a two-year hiatus, RT has once again wowed the judges and been selected as the overall winner of this major international award.
This year, RT saw off competition from a myriad of both public and commerical broadcasters including BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), US National Public Radio (NPR), Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Radio Rivadavia (Argentina), Radio Free Europe (Czech Republic), Radio France and Radio New Zealand to name but a few. Winners in the television and film categories include such broadcasting heavyweights as CNN, ESPN, HBO, Showtime, Lionsgate, Al Jazeera, National Geographic and ZDF Germany.
Rose Anderson, Executive Director of New York Festivals International Radio Awards, says: New York Festivals is proud to recognise RT as the Broadcaster of the Year in the radio category. Once again, their exceptional and innovative programming - from drama to documentary and reporting - demonstrating the power of the individual voice, the depth of their subject matter and their storytelling ability, has captured the attention of RT 's radio listeners and the New York Festivals International Radio Awards Grand Jury. Congratulations on a brilliant year!
Jim Jennings, Managing Director of RT Radio, says: For RT to be named New York Festivals' Radio Broadcaster of the Year for the third time is truly an honour. The win is testament not only to the collective output of our radio stations, but also to the global appeal of our programming. In this digital age t is important that our content appeals to our international audience as much as our listeners in Ireland. Our programmes not only have relevance to our global audience, they also resonate to a point that RT Radio 1 and RT lyric fm have been collectively named Broadcaster of the Year once again. This is extremely important to us as a public service broadcaster. I would like to wholeheartedly thank New York Festivals and extend my congratulations to the producers, editors and staff in RT Radio 1 and RT lyric fm who have excelled in their dedication, creativity and professionalism once again.
In addition to being named Broadcaster of the Year, RT also received a total of 34 awards in the radio categories, including 23 medals at the 2015 New York Festivals for individual programmes on RT Radio 1 and RT lyric fm. The awards include 11 for RT Radio 1's multi-award-winning documentary strand, Documentary on One; six for Drama on One; eight for programmes from RT Radio 1's music, comedy and entertainment department, spanning topics as diverse as a look back over the past 25 year of one of Dublin's most iconic music venues (Whelans at 25) to documenting the 1994 Rwandan genocide through the medium of music (Music Passport: A Journey through Genocide); and RT Radio 1 reporter Brian O'Connell took home a gold medal for best investigative reporting' for his series on Today with Sean O'Rourke, Direct Provision, which focused on the direct provision system in Ireland.
Head of RT Radio 1, Tom McGuire, who accepted the award in New York on RT 's behalf, says: This is brilliant news for RT . To be awarded Broadcaster of the Year by New York Festivals is the ultimate recognition for Irish radio-programme makers. The gold awards were achieved across documentary making, music, investigative journalism and drama. The winning programmes cross borders and boundaries to bring the listener to an undiscovered world. Well done to everyone who contributed to this amazing success.
On RT lyric fm, The Lyric Feature series collected five awards including the Grey Heron Media produced feature for Weekend Drive, Limerick 2014: As it Lives and Breathes, which won gold in the profiles and community portraits' category.
Head of RT lyric fm, Aod n Dubhghaill, says: RT lyric fm is being recognised again internationally for the breath of output it provides in its coverage of music, arts and culture. The lyric winners this year at the New York Festivals include programmes about Allegri's Miserere, music of the Great War, an innovative group of musicians in Amsterdam, Ireland's city of culture 2014, and an interview with Peter Gabriel about the voice and singing. Also unique this year is lyric's collaboration with a local commercial station Live 95fm and Grey Heron Media on a BAI funded series which won gold. The contributors, presenters and producers of these programmes deserve credit for the wonderful contribution to enriching the experience of listeners, wherever they are around the world.
RT s Head of Arts and Cultural Strategy, Lorelei Harris, says: Congratulations to all those involved in winning this year s New York Festivals Broadcaster of the Year Award for RT . This coveted international prize shows that RT is a serious player on the world radio stage. Across the board, from the acclaimed Documentary on One and Drama on One, to our factual, arts, music and entertainment programmes and RT lyric fm, our production teams have demonstrated their capacity to compete and win against some of the largest and best of the world s broadcasters. I am intensely proud of their achievement and their ongoing commitment to providing Iri
Most recent headlines
06/10/2025
France T l visions, France's leading broadcaster, has received the 2025 EBU ...
04/09/2025
Monumental Sports & Entertainment (MSE), in collaboration with Dalet, has been a...
30/08/2025
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission has adopted its FY 2025 Regulatory Fees Order that establishes the regulatory fee rates for the broadcast stati...
29/08/2025
Australian Red Cross and SBS launch training to help workplaces in the fight aga...
29/08/2025
The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF), an agency of the Department of Sp...
29/08/2025
L3Harris Technologies has concentrated decades of expertise across the entire enterprise to develop affordable and reliable best-of-breed solutions to rapidly c...
29/08/2025
BURBANK, Calif. The CW Network and the Pac-12 Conference have announced a new media rights deal that will extend their broadcast partnership beginning with the ...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK Gracenote has released a new analysis of its global video dataset showing that the number of FAST channels grew nearly 14% from Q1 2025 and 76% since 2...
29/08/2025
SAN JOSE, Calif. Harmonic has announced a series of improvements to its live sports streaming solution that the company said will improve fan engagement, protec...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES Fox Corp. and YouTube TV last night announced a renewal of the full portfolio of Fox networks, including Fox News Channel, Fox Business...
29/08/2025
Budapest, Hungary, August 2025 - The integration of Microsoft Teams Rooms (MTR) with Lightware's Taurus universal matrix switchers delivers a new level of f...
29/08/2025
Frequency, the engine behind many of the world's best-known streaming television channels, today announced it will launch Studio Live, a next-generation uni...
29/08/2025
In an era when AI and cyber resilience are essential, Scality will mark the 10th anniversary of Scality Day on October 16, 2025 in Paris. This flagship global e...
29/08/2025
Disguise's In-House Creative and Technical Teams Pre-Visualised, Programmed and Delivered Content for the Experience, All Powered by EX 3+
Technology solu...
29/08/2025
Disguise will be demonstrating the latest workflows for TV, film and live events on a number of partner booths at the show
Disguise, the industry-leading tech...
29/08/2025
STOCKHOLM, Sweden Accedo will showcase Accedo Compose, its AI agent-powered modular orchestration layer that assists streaming providers in transitioning client...
29/08/2025
LOS ANGELES Cineverse has announced that it is working with Xperi to bring four of its streaming channels to automobiles for the first time as part of the DTS A...
29/08/2025
DALLAS & ATLANTA Gray Media has announced an agreement with the sports streaming service Victory+ to simulcast 17 Dallas Stars NHL games in 15 television market...
29/08/2025
NEW YORK AND CULVER CITY Comcast NBCUniversal and Amazon have announced new and extended distribution agreements that will expand the content available on their...
29/08/2025
FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif. RED Digital Cinema will feature its Cine-Broadcast Module supporting live broadcast workflows during IBC2025, Sept. 12-15, at the RAI Ams...
29/08/2025
29 Aug 2025
Kyivstar Rings Opening Bell at Nasdaq Marking Landmark Listing and ...
29/08/2025
More than half of all NFL games live on Sky for the first timeFriday 29 August 2025
Sky Sports has announced a new three-year deal with the NFL, extending its ...
29/08/2025
Back to All News
RIV4LRIES: The Trailer of the New Series With Samuele Carrino ...
29/08/2025
Get ready for an inspiring and emotional insight into the world of competitive Irish dancing with My Story: Tomi Champion of the World airing on RT 2 this monda...
29/08/2025
RT has today announced that David McCullagh is to be the new presenter of RT Radio 1's flagship Today programme, which airs every weekday at 10am, replaci...
28/08/2025
By Kristin Feeley, Director, Documentary Film & Artist Programs
If you want to tell untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you've got ...
28/08/2025
Directed by Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, Sundance Institute-supported Amer...
28/08/2025
Corridos have been a cornerstone of M sica Mexicana for generations, telling stories rooted in everyday life. Now, a new chapter is taking shape: motivational c...
28/08/2025
Los corridos han sido un pilar de la M sica Mexicana durante generaciones, contando historias enraizadas en la vida cotidiana. Ahora, un nuevo cap tulo est tom...
28/08/2025
Earlier this month, we promised our Verano Forever party would bring the heat, a...
28/08/2025
L3Harris will provide the Polish F-16V fleet with the Viper Shield electronic warfare system as part of an upgrade program....
28/08/2025
Bilbao, August 26, 2025 - AgileTV, an international television and video technol...
28/08/2025
Ken Wilkinson is an Emmy Awards nominated New York audio engineer who specialises in production sound mixing for film, commercial, episodic and documentary work...
28/08/2025
NEW YORK FuboTV today announced that it will launch Fubo Sports, a skinny bundle that focuses on sports with a subscription price of $56 monthly....
28/08/2025
NEVADA City, Calif. At IBC2025, Sept. 12-15 at the RAI Amsterdam, Telestream will debut its new Global Ingest strategy, introducing a next-generation ingest arc...
28/08/2025
Dr. Rhoda Bernard Releases Groundbreaking Debut Book on Accessible Arts Educatio...
28/08/2025
TAG Video Systems, the leader in software-based IP end-to-end workflow monitoring, deep probing, and real-time visualization, has named Oliver Gappa as Sales Di...
28/08/2025
AI-based voice enhancement will be among a series of innovations making their IBC 2025 debut on the DHD stand B46 in Hall 8 at the RAI Amsterdam Convention Cent...
28/08/2025
Telef nica Servicios Audiovisuales (TSA), the leading system integrator and service provider in the media sector in Spain, with the support of Appear, the globa...
28/08/2025
To fully immerse sailing fans in the world's biggest offshore yacht race, production company, Optical Media turned to LiveU's On-site Production solutio...
28/08/2025
Working with Calrec on its most recent overhaul, radio and television broadcaster, WNED has migrated to a fully IP infrastructure with multiple Type R consoles,...
28/08/2025
Cleeng, the Subscriber Retention Management (SRM ) inventor, has unveiled Cleeng Pro, the first-ever direct-to-consumer (D2C) subscription management platform t...
28/08/2025
Zixi, the industry leader in live broadcast-quality video over IP, today announced that French media distribution platform OKAST has selected Zixi to enable rel...
28/08/2025
Solution offers a streamlined, speaker-free architecture to optimize integration with premium external loudspeakers and advanced loudness metering
Nixer Pro Au...
28/08/2025
Cinegy, the premier provider of software-defined television technology, has announced a strategic partnership with Vision One Touch Film Production Services L.L...
28/08/2025
Telestream, a global leader in media workflow technologies, will debut its new Global Ingest strategy at IBC2025, introducing a next-generation ingest architect...
28/08/2025
Tier 1 operator selects Broadpeak to power high-performance, unified CDN solution across Norway, Sweden and Finland
Broadpeak, a leader in streaming and moneti...
28/08/2025
Leading video software provider, Synamedia, today announced that 24 Frames Digital, one of India's leading live event streaming service providers, has chose...
28/08/2025
Meet VisualOn at IBC2025: See What's Next in AI-Powered Video Streaming Join VisualOn at IBC2025 and discover how our AI-driven Optimizer and advanced media...
RT Wins Radio Broadcaster of the Year at New York Festival 
