A message from your Station Manager…
The Rogies was FUN! It was so nice to see so many of the MainFM family there. A massive thank you to our hosts Jeremy and Alec from Jazz, The Universe and Everything who did a Fab job of MCing the proceedings. Thank you to Edd Selcta and Luke Jacques for Djing, To Craig Gaston for taking photos ( stay tuned!) and to Girls on Air and their Fight crew for checking everyone in. ( as they say – it takes a village) This year the Rogies Public vote attracted 400 votes (100 up from previous years) and the Members Only vote attracted 90+ votes (almost all of our presenters) This reflects really healthy engagement with the station and provides a solid spread of voting across the grid. Now, to announce our winners….
| GOLD | WINNER | NIGHT MOOGS – Jakob & Simon |
| SILVER | WINNER | LUKEWARM COCKTAIL LOUNGE – Luke Jacques |
| BRONZE | WINNER | GIRLS ON AIR – Jan & Melissa |
| CHATTERATI (BEST TALKS SHOW) | RUNNER-UP | DEAD AIR – Hayley West |
| WINNER | SOMEPLACE, SOMEWHERE – Crag Carrick | |
| FRESH AWARD (BEST YOUTH SHOW) | RUNNER-UP | MESSIN’ WITH MICS – Billy & Harper |
| WINNER | JAZZ, THE UNIVERSE & EVERYTHING – Alec & Jeremy | |
| NEW KID ON THE BLOCK (BEST NEW SHOW) | RUNNERS-UP | LOOSE ‘N’ UP – Jen Moore |
| IN DIDJ ‘N’ US – Pete Dawson | ||
| TO BRING YOU MY LOVE – Mik Weir | ||
| A HORSE WITH NO NAME – Elizabeth Scanlon | ||
| WINNERS (EQUAL 1ST) | LOVE STORM – Gus Read-Hill | |
| DANCE THIS MESS AROUND – Peta & Polly | ||
| VIRTUAL STATE – Joel Pearson | ||
| OLD HAND (BEST ESTABLISHED SHOW) | RUNNERS-UP | IT’S A JANGLE OUT THERE – Josh Meadows |
| THE UPSHOT – Kya Moore & Lucy Armstrong | ||
| QUEER & NOW – Sherene Clow & Amalie O’Hara | ||
| WINNER | HOUR OF POWER – Shane Mathieson | |
| REX WATTS MUSIC AWARD (BEST MUSIC SHOW) | RUNNER UP | WHAT’S GOLDEN – Alex Parson & Alex Playsted |
| WINNER | SOMEPLACE, SOMEWHERE – Crag Carrick |
The Special Mentions:
| CBAA Award nominees/winners |
| Suzanne Donisthorpe Hear Say (Excellence in News & Current Affairs) |
| Hayley West Dead Air (Best New Radio Program) |
| Allie Hanly Saltgrass (Best Radio Program – Talks) |
| Special Projects |
| Queer & Now Sherene Clow & Amalie O’Hara – Pride Across the Ages Podcast |
| Poppy Cullen – Able Radio |
| 300 Club |
| Tim Ratcliffe |
| Colin Lemon |
| Bruce Carruthers |
| Allie Hanly |
| Hall of Fame (Comes on stage for framed photo) |
| Allie Hanly – For her work in the early days keeping the station up and running! |
| Meg Butler – For her contribution to the CoM |
| Billy Lister – For selling over 3K worth of MainFM merchandise this year! |
Thank you to all our presenters for your hard work and dedication. You should all be proud of your efforts across the year.
A few special thank yous:
To everyone that has put their hand up to help out at Outside Broadcasts and events. We couldn’t run them without you.
To Jimmy Naylor, Colin Lemon and Elizabeth Scanlon for their work curating the playlist and producing promos.
To the Lowdown team Sam Loy, Bruce Carruthers, Steve Norton, Alex Playsted and Cath Jolly for keeping the town updated with all community news and events.
To Alex Parsons and Josh Meadows for producing the on-air gig guides
To Lauren lee for producing the published gig guide
To Scott Sanders and Bradley Dawson for web tech support
To the Pandemic Planning Committee Rich McLeish, Steve Charman and Leon Stackpole for keeping everyone safe
To Steve Charman and the Tech committee for keeping the place up and running
To Rich Moffat and the Programming Committee for keeping the on-air sound rocking
To our hard-working Committee of Management for keeping it legal: Rich McLeish, Hannah Cook, Di Indrans, Suzanne Hogan, Jeremy Furze, Mihaella Kovacic, Ian Patrick and Andrew Stewart. Without the Committee of Management we simply would not be able to operate, we thank you for your service to the station and the community.
And finally to Sue McLennan and Alex Playsted for consistently going above and beyond and being the best humans you could ever wish for.
Huzzah.
Steph.