It was another golden night for Bauer Media Audio at the 2025 ARIAS (Audio and Radio Industry Awards), hosted by Magic Radio’s Gok Wan, where our teams picked up an incredible twelve awards including the prestigious Special Recognition Award, presented by Ken Bruce, to Greatest Hits Radio Network Content Director Andy Ashton.
Forth 1 won two Gold awards with Boogie in the Morning winning Best Music Breakfast Show – for the second year running – and the station being named as the John Myers Local Radio Station of the Year.
Rayo took Silver in a new category for 2025, UK Audio Brand of the Year as KISS picked up two Silver awards for The 2024 ‘Genny Lex’ in the Best News or Current Affairs category and Best Commercial Partnership Award for Empowering Young Lives with KFC.
Greatest Hits Radio 60s was also a Silver winner for Best Sonic Branding.
The Bowie@Breakfast team saw Bronze for Best Music Radio Breakfast Show and the Hits Radio team were also Bronze Social Impact Award winners for Clare’s Law: A Decade Saving Lives.
Greatest Hits Radio was another Bronze winner for UK Radio Station or Radio Network of the Year, as were the Clyde 1 team in the Best Event Coverage Award for Superscoreboard at Euro 2024
The full list of Bauer Media Audio UK winners:
SPECIAL RECOGNITION AWARD: Andy Ashton
GOLD
JOHN MYERS LOCAL RADIO STATION OF THE YEAR: Forth 1
BEST MUSIC BREAKFAST RADIO SHOW AWARD: Boogie in the Morning – Forth 1
SILVER
UK AUDIO BRAND OF THE YEAR: Rayo
BEST MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT AWARD (SHOW OR PRESENTER): Ruthie Henshall Sees Dead People – Magic Radio
BEST NEWS OR CURRENT AFFAIRS AWARD: The 2024 ‘Genny Lex’ – KISS
BEST SONIC BRANDING AWARD: Greatest Hits Radio 60s
BEST COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIP AWARD: Empowering Young Lives – KISS and KFC
BRONZE
UK RADIO STATION OR RADIO NETWORK OF THE YEAR: Greatest Hits Radio
BEST MUSIC BREAKFAST RADIO SHOW AWARD: Bowie@Breakfast – Clyde 1
THE SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD: Clare’s Law: A Decade of Saving Lives – Hits Radio
BEST EVENT COVERAGE AWARD: Superscoreboard at EURO 2024 – Clyde 1
Forth 1 has been celebrating its 50th birthday this year.
They have also recently hit a 24 year audience high (RAJAR) and the Forth 1 news team also recently picked up at Gold at the IRN Awards winning the ‘News Team of the Year’ (Under 1.5million TSA).
