Voice of the Listener and Viewer 2007 Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting
to be presented at the VLV Spring Conference, 23 April 2008
Dear Member
We are very grateful to members for a strong response again to the request for nominations for the VLV Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting. Yet again the results were very diversely based and
show what a breadth of programmes we find of value.
The voting forms for the final round are below and we do hope that you will find the time to vote in large numbers for the ultimate winners.
We have a new television category this year, Best Childrens' Programme. VLV is increasingly concerned about locally produced programmes for children and the decline of original production particularly within the commercial sector. We feel it important to acknowledge those who continue to produce outstanding programmes in the field and hope that you will find time to view some of them and vote.
Although the nomination papers included digital programmes for both television and radio we did not get sufficient response to put forward to the final voting stages any programmes initiated on
digital networks. We do however use the forms to gather data on members' conversion to digital and this year ownership levels of digital receivers have risen to 50% for both television and radio
amongst those responding. These levels continue to beg the question as to how easy total conversion by 2012 will be.
The Awards will be presented during the VLV Spring Conference on Wednesday 23rd April at the Royal Geological Society in Burlington House, Piccadilly. This is always a very entertaining occasion, well attended by well-known winners and we do hope as many members as possible will attend this occasion and also a very interesting and stimulating conference.
Please do take the opportunity to vote for your favourite programmes and presenters and vote as soon as possible, at the very latest for receipt by Friday, 7th March.
Your sincerely,
John Clark
To complete forms, click on either Radio or Television Ballot Paper. Type in your preferences for winner of each category in order (1-6) in the boxes next to the candidates. Then click on 'File' in top left hand corner of screen, click on 'send to' and then click on 'page by Email'. Type in address which is Awards@vlv.org.uk and send.
The VLV Award winner for 2007 will be announced at the Spring Conference on 23rd April at 1.45pm. This event is being organised by John Clark. Howard Goodall will present the awards.
Howard was the recipient of VLV's Special Award for Educational Broadcasting introduced last year in memory of Naomi Sargant. He was appointed Ambassador for Singing in 2007 to lead a £40 million programme to improve singing in primary schools. Howard is a prolific composer, conductor and broadcaster whose music will be familiar to many through the theme tunes he has written for television shows such as Blackadder, Mr Bean, The Catherine Tate Show and the Vicar of Dibley, including several shows he has produced for Channel 4, most recently, How Music Works. His composition O Lord God, Time and Eternity was performed at the Service of Remembrance for the Iraq War at St Paul's Cathedral in 2003, and his Eternal Light: a Requiem will receive its world premiere at Sadler's Wells later this year.
Howard Goodall
Past Award Winners
Voice of the Listener and Viewer 2006 Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting
The VLV Award winners for 2006 were announced at the Spring Conference on 19h April at 1.45pm. These were organised by Terry Glover, VLV Board Member.
Sue MacGregor presented the Awards to the lucky winners. The results are as follows:
The Television Awards
Best Programme or Programme Series
Winner: Coast (BBC Two)
Accepted by: Neil Oliver, Presenter
Steve Evanson, Series Producer
Best New Programme or Programme Series
Winner: Planet Earth (BBC One)
Accepted by: Alastair Fothergill, Series Producer
Best Individual Contributor
Winner: Stephen Fry
Accepted by Stephen Fry 
Alastair Fothergill and Sue MacGregor
John Humphrys and Stephen Fry
The Radio Awards
Best Programme or Programme Series
Winner: File on Four (BBC Radio 4)
Accepted by: Jenny Cuff, Presenter
David Ross, Editor
Best New Programme or Programme Series
Winner: Humphrys in Search of God (BBC Radio 4)
Accepted by: John Humphrys
David Coomes
Best Individual Contributor
Winner: Eddie Mair
Accepted by: Eddie Mair
Eddie Mair
VLV has introduced a new special award to mark the death of VLV member Professor Naomi Sargant. The 2006 Naomi Sargant Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to educaiton in broadcasting went to Howard Goodall (Channel 4). The Award was collected by Jan Younghusband, Commisioning Editor for Arts & Performance at Channel 4 on Howard's behalf.
The winners of the Voice of the Listener & Viewer 2006 Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting were announced on Thursday, 19th April 2007. VLV's Awards for Excellence in Broadcasting, now in their 15th year, are nominated and voted for exclusively by listeners and viewers.
At the Awards ceremony held in London, broadcaster and journalist Sue MacGregory presented the winners with an engraved Dartington Crystal bowl. VLV's awards are sponsored by VLV's sister charity, The Voice of the Listener Trust, and have this year been organised by VLV board member Terry Glover.
Details can be found on the previous VLV Awards webpage.
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