The winners of the 2010 New Zealand Radio Awards have been announced in a vidcast on the New Zealand Radio Awards website.

The Radio Awards Show which was presented by Jason Reeves (The Radio Network’s Classic Hits) & Jono Pryor (MediaWorks Radio, The Rock). It was a first for the Radio Industry to present the awards in an online show.

 A total of 50 award winners were announced, acknowledging on-air personalities, programming, news and sports reporting, creativity and production.

Radio Awards Chairman, David Brice, said; “The 2010 Radio Awards has proved to be as successful and equally popular as previous years. The winners have truly represented the highest calibre of talent within our industry and the new online show has proven itself to be a successful format”.

The MediaWorks Station, The Rock, dominated some of the most sought after awards. It scooped up the Metropolitan Station of the Year, Best Music Breakfast Metropolitan, Best Music Non-Breakfast Metropolitan and the Best Radio Website Award. It also received two promotional awards for their network promotion of the ‘Nations Chip’ and ‘The Rock Car Show’ promotion in Dunedin.

More FM, Manawatu won Regional Station of the Year and Times FM, Rodney Provincial Station of the Year. The inaugural Iwi Station of the Year Award went to Ngati Hine FM of Whangarei.

In his first year on the Newstalk ZB network breakfast show Mike Hosking has won the Best Talk or Current Affairs Host – All Markets whilst fellow announcer Danny Watson was successful in winning the inaugural award for Best Talk Back Host – All Markets.

This year two Outstanding Contribution to Radio awards were presented. Bill Francis from Newstalk ZB was the recipient of the first award, he has built an enviable record in over 40 years of broadcasting and is considered the guru in talk radio. The second went to a leading media executive for many years in New Zealand, Brent Impey, previous CEO of MediaWorks this will be added to a long stream of awards for Mr Impey including Media Personality of the Year’ in 2003; received an award for ‘Broadcaster of the Decade’ in 1990, and a ‘Queen’s Commemorative Medal for Services to Broadcasting’ also in 1990.

The Services to Broadcasting Award went to Kevin Black who has been an on-air breakfast host for nearly 30 consecutive years.

In emerging talent, the keenly contested Best New Broadcaster award was presented to ZM’s Kieran Bell of The Radio Network in Auckland.