Tommo picks up Presenter of the Year award


Scarlets rugby announcer and local radio hero Tommo has been awarded a Presenter of the Year prize at prestigious national awards.
From the thousands of presenters on stations across the UK, Tommo was one of just three nominees in his category.
Tommo has been a regular voice on radio stations in West Wales for a number of years and has hosted the Breakfast show on Radio Carmarthenshire for the past two years.
You can hear his programme from 6am on 97.1FM across Carmarthenshire and 97.5FM in Carmarthen Town.
Tommo also hosts programmes on sister stations Radio Pembrokeshire, Radio Ceredigion and Scarlet FM.
Tommo is also the pitchside announcer for the Scarlets during home fixtures.
The Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards 2011 were held in London.
Tommo won Presenter of the Year (small territory).
Global Radio’s Classic FM took home the Station of the Year for 1m, Smooth Radio’s David Kid Jensen was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award and Bauer Media’s Dee Ford was given the Arqiva Gold.
The Awards were hosted by Absolute Radio’s Christian O’Connell, with guest presenters including David Baddiel, Pete Waterman, Toby Anstis, John Suchet, Neil Fox and Mark Goodier.
There were live performances from platinum selling artists Beverly Knight and Pixie Lott, as well as from The Sound of Arrows and girl-band Wonderland.
Absolute scooped four awards with Christian O’Connell picking up Breakfast Show of the year; Baddiel & Skinner winning Feature of the Year and The Ronnie Wood Show awarded Specialist Programme of the Year, with Ronnie Wood also picking up the Newcomer Award.
The Lifetime Achievement Award went to David Jensen, with Radioplayer’s Michael Hill picking up the Chairman’s Award. The Special Award went to PPL’s Fran Nevrkla and Dee Ford from Bauer Radio picked up the Gold Award.
Andrew Harrison, Chief Executive of RadioCentre commented: “Congratulations to all our winners this evening – we had some outstanding entries this year demonstrating the breadth and strength of commercial radio.”
There were a total of 30 categories at this year’s awards, including the new category PPL Best Breakthrough UK Artist of the Year, and five new categories for radio advertising, in what is the biggest annual celebration of UK commercial radio.
The Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards, now in their 16th year, are organised by RadioCentre, the industry body for commercial radio, and recognise excellence and achievement across the whole spectrum of commercial radio output, from presenters and programming to advertising, marketing and technical innovation.

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