Second national Australian Commercial Radio Award for Nova 93.7’s Siegert and Sandler

Nova 93.7’s Brett Sandler and Siobhan Siegert (pictured) won their second ‘Best Multimedia Execution’ trophy at the Australian Commercial Radio Awards, held at Crown Melbourne on Saturday night.

Siegert, Sandler & the Nova SPARK Team’s ‘Toyota Hybrid Freeway Challenge’ took the prize ahead of ‘Hamish & Andy’s American Caravan of Courage’ on Fox FM Melbourne; ‘Hamish & Andy’s BYO Pool Party’ on Fox FM Melbourne; and ‘AC/DC’ on Triple M Sydney.

However, Austereo’s comic duo didn’t leave empty handed. They won Best On-Air Team for the third year in a row, plus a further two awards for Best Show Producer – Entertainment/Music for Sam Cavanagh and Best Music Special for ‘Guy Sebastian vs Every other Artist on our Playlist’.

Besides Nova’s win it was a lean night for Perth metro stations. WA’s other winners were all from country stations:

Best Achievement In Production (Country)

6KG Production – Glenn Wilson & Jerimiah Busniak, 6KG RadioWest, Kalgoorlie WA, Southern Cross Media

Best Station Sales Achievement (Country)

Maria Slater; Spirit / WA FM, Port Headland WA, Redwave Media

Best Community Service Project (Country)

Pink FM; Red FM, Remote Western Australia WA, Redwave Media

A new category this year, Best New Digital Radio Format, whichrecognises the innovation and development of digital radio in Australiawas won by new stations, Koffee (DMG Australia) and Radar Radio(Austereo).

CEO of Commercial Radio, Joan Warner, congratulated all the winners ontheir outstanding achievement and contribution to commercial radio inAustralia: “The standard of radio broadcasting in Australia isextremely high and the recipients of these awards continue to raise thebar each year in terms of achieving excellence, which is great news formillions of listeners throughout the country.”

See the full winners list here.