Tuks FM has secured 18 nominations for the 2019 Liberty Radio Awards to be hosted on 13 April at the Sandton Convention Centre. In so doing, the radio station became the most-nominated campus radio station in the country, and the second most-nominated overall (campus, community, PBS and commercial), falling only three short of the radio station with the highest number of nominations for 2019.
Below is a list of all the nominations Tuks FM received:
AFTERNOON
DRIVE PRESENTER
1. DUANE JEFFERY VAN WYK
2. KEA BOYA
AFTERNOON
DRIVE SHOW
3. THE TUKS FM DRIVE SHOW
BREAKFAST
SHOW
4. THE TUKS FM BREAKFAST SHOW
COMMUNITY
PROJECT
5. #PAYITFORWARD
DAYTIME
SHOW
6. HOT TOPIC
MULTI-CHANNEL
PROMOTION
7. HEAR THE SIGHTS
MUSIC
SHOW
8. LOCALS ONLY
9. THE TUKS FM HIP HOP SHOW
NIGHT-TIME
SHOW
10. THE TUKS FM HIP HOP SHOW
11. LOCALS ONLY
PROMOTIONS
STUNT/EVENT
12. #PAYITFORWARD
13. THE TUKS FM RADIO INDABA 2018
RADIO
DOCUMENTARY
14. #BETTERTOKNOW
RADIO
INNOVATION
15. HEAR THE SIGHTS
STATION
IMAGING
16. TUKS FM 107.2
WEEKEND
RADIO SHOW
17. SATURDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHTS WITH AARON
18. TUKS FM TOP 40.
Tuks FM is also the only campus or community radio station to be nominated in the Multi-Channel Promotion and Radio Innovation categories, with all the other nominees being commercial radio stations.
Station Manager, Leanne Kunz, says the achievement is a massive feather in their cap, and shows that the repositioning the station underwent in 2018 is bearing fruit. “We made sweeping changes at basically every level of Tuks FM’s operations in 2018 in a bid to realign ourselves with our core market. These included implementing a structured, intensive training programme under Programme Manager, Mike Bower, which has vastly improved our output overall. I think the number of nominations we received this year is a reflection of those changes, as well as a massive team effort to make Tuks FM the best campus radio station in the country.”
Tuks FM received nine nominations at the 2018 event, and won two awards, as well as two Bright Star accolades.
