BBC wins Broadcaster of the Year at the New York Festivals radio awards

The BBC has been named as the 2024 Broadcaster of the Year Award for the second year running at the international New York Festivals radio awards.

Gold trophies for the corporation include The Shamima Begum Story, Series 2 of I’m Not A Monster, and Believe in Magic.

Silver trophy winners include The Global Jigsaw from BBC World Service, Shiny Bob: The Devil’s Advocate, and Crossing the Cuillin Mountains, both by BBC Scotland.

Mohit Bakaya, Director of Speech, BBC, said: “It’s wonderful to receive the award for Broadcaster of the Year for the second year running. The variety of individual awards recognised here, from compelling podcasts such as I’m Not A Monster: The Shamima Begum Story and Missing Madonna through to powerful documentaries like Generation Shame and dramas such as This Thing of Darkness is testament to the extraordinary range and quality of our audio output and deserved recognition of the brilliant teams across the UK that produce amazing content for the BBC.

“Bloodlines, an important podcast series co-produced by the BBC and CBC, is also rightly celebrated with a prestigious Grand Award. Congratulations to everyone involved in making the work that has contributed to this lovely accolade.”

Almost Tangible was recognised with the 2024 Radio Production Company of the Year Award. The award-winning boutique production company was honored for their excellent immersive audio content. Award-winning entries include their Grand and multiple Gold-winning Hamlet Noir.

In addition to many awards for BBC services, This is Distorted was recognised for its work on KISS, and BFBS for a podcast.

See the full list of winners for 2024 here.

This story first appeared on radiotoday.co.uk