St Albans-based radio station Mix 92.6 - formerly Radio Verulam - has been shortlisted for a number of national awards.
The not-for-profit station has been nominated in three categories in the Community Radio Awards 2023. These include best sports show, best coverage of a live event and best specialist content.
The winners of the awards will be announced during a ceremony in Newcastle on Saturday, November 4.
Mix 92.6 is run by a team of 60 volunteers and covers subjects such as music, news and sport.
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The radio station's weekly Parents Show has been shortlisted for the best specialist content award.
The show covers topics of interest for parents on a range of subjects including choosing a school, learning difficulties and mental health.
The show's producer Lydia El Khouri said: “I’m so delighted that our team’s hard work covering the subjects that matter to parents has been recognised in this way.”
Two of the radio station's sports programmes have also been nominated in the best coverage of a live event and best sports show categories.
Mix 92.6's coverage of St Albans City FC's play-off final defeat against Oxford City was nominated for the former, while the weekly Local Sports Mix is on the shortlist for the latter.
The Local Sports Mix covers a range of Hertfordshire's professional and amateur sport.
Jonny Seabrook, Mix 92.6 sports producer, said: “Loving local sport means getting underneath the stories and featuring the full breadth of local sport across our area.”
Programme controller Andy Waterfield gave his reaction to receiving the nominations.
“I am really thrilled for the station, our listeners and our production and presentation teams that we have been shortlisted in these three categories," he said.
"I’d also like to thank our sports programming sponsors Kirkby Diamond and Parents Show sponsors, Raydens Solicitors, for helping to make these programmes possible.”
The full list of nominees can be found at www.communityradioawards.org.uk.
For more information on Mix 92.6, go to www.mix926.com
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