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The awards, held at the Grosvenor House hotel in London, awarded a gold award to Magic 105.4 breakfast presenter Neil Fox.

Meanwhile, Bauer Media's rock station Kerrang, Shropshire station Beacon Radio and digital station Fun Kids, all scooped gold station of the year accolades.

Bauer's Kerrang had a good evening as it also won the DAB Rising Star Award, awarded to its DJ Singing Henry, while Nick Ferrari won the Speech Broadcaster of the Year award for his show on Global Radio's LBC.

Absolute Radio, which rebranded from Virgin Radio last year, won The Live Event Coverage Award for its Absolute Coldplay documentary.

Other winners across the commercial sector included Bauer's Kiss and Classic FM.

Andrew Harrison, chief executive of RadioCentre, the commercial radio trade body, said: "Commercial radio offers a huge breadth of programming and this has been recognised with gold awards in music programming, speech, competitions, children's programming and documentary."

The commercial radio winners in full:

Sony DAB Rising Star Award
Singing Henry, Kerrang! Radio

The Music Programming Award
Classic FM

The Promo Award
Kiss The Planet - What will you do?  
Kiss Imaging Team for the Kiss Network

The Competition Award
Facebuck$
Galaxy (Manchester, Birmingham, Yorkshire & North East)

Station of the Year under 300,000
Beacon Radio (Shropshire)

Station of the Year - 1 million plus
Kerrang 105.2

The Specialist Music Programme Award
David Rodigan
Kiss Specialist Production Team for the Kiss Network

The Live Event Coverage Award
Absolute Coldplay
TBI Media & Absolute Radio for Absolute Radio

The Speech Broadcaster of the Year
Nick Ferrari
LBC97.3

Digital Station of the Year
Fun Kids

The Gold Award
Neil Fox

The Special Award
Paul Brown CBE