How the Awards Work
CONTACT THE AWARDS SECRETARIES The Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG) pulls together nominations for our annual BPG Television and Radio Awards in the last month of the year. Members vote in following January (in two rounds) and our gala Awards Lunch takes place in mid-March every year. The BPG Awards are for programmes aired in the prior calendar year to the March Awards Lunch, so the 2019 Awards Lunch honours programmes aired in 2018. To be eligible, all nominations must be UK programmes, meaning they must be produced or co-produced by UK production companies or broadcaster/publishers. Nominations are open from the middle of November to the end of December in the Awards Year. … [Read More...]
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About the BPG
The Broadcasting Press Guild is an association of journalists who specialise in writing and broadcasting about television, radio and the media generally. We began in 1974 as a breakaway body from the Critics’ Circle with a membership of 27, and now comfortably number over 100. Between them our members cover all the major national newspapers and leading trade journals; they include media correspondents, reviewers, previewers and feature writers. We divide about 50-50 between staff journalists … [Read More...]