Company: JazzRadio Berlin
Company Description: JazzRadio Berlin is Germany's only 24/7 FM radio station. From March 2015 its signal will be shared with JazzRadio Baltic, a new FM license in Rostock. JazzRadio plays Mainstream, Swing, Electronic, Latin, Soul and Smooth Jazz. Since 1999, JazzRadio has won 24 awards at the New York International Programming Awards, including six gold medals
Nomination Category: Management Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Lifetime Achievement Award - Consumer Services Industries
 Nomination Title: Julian Allitt, Lifetime achievement award in Radio
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Julian Allitt, Broadcaster & Educator, CEO of JazzRadio Berlin
Nomination for a Lifetime Achievement Award in Radio
(Category Media & Entertainment)
Julian Allitt (Born 11.01.46 in Blackpool, England) is a UK citizen with a 50-year career in radio in England, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates.
He is currently the CEO and Owner of JazzRadio Berlin, Germany’s only 24/7 FM jazz music radio station.
In a richly varied career in three countries, Julian has:
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initiated and launched 3 new radio stations
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Been CEO of 6 radio stations in the UK and Germany
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Set up JazzArabia in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the first jazz radio station in the MENA region
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Was part of a 3-person team which achieved the first major takeover in UK commercial radio (Piccadilly Radio, Manchester)
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Served as assistant managing director in the UK Stock Exchange-listed Transworld radio group
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Served on a 6-person committee which established the UK Radio Advertising Bureau
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Was News Director of Red Rose Radio, Lancashire, England, which in its first year on-air won the ‘Best News Magazine Programme’ Award in the UK Rediffusion Local Radio Awards
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Established and was Head of the School of Journalism at The University of Central Lancashire, described by The Guardian newspaper in 2022 as the best in the UK
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In two years increased the Journalism School’s representation of black and ethnic minority students from 2 to 37 per cent (simply by placing course information inviting applications in the ethnic minority Press)
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Achieved 100 per cent employment for radio, TV and newspaper journalism students by intensive counselling and support at all stages of their applications
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Served for three years as CEO of Piccadilly Radio AM and Key103 FM, Manchester, taking Key103 from No.4 to No. 1 in the regional market
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Set up The Bay96.9FM serving Morecambe Bay and the English Lake District, achieving the second best audience reach at launch of a UK radio station & No. 1 in regional market
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Showed support for local shipbuilders by inviting the Captain of Britain’s first nuclear submarine to launch the radio station live on-air
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Was a visiting lecturer at Lancaster University Business School and Sheffield University Department of Journalism
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TheBay96.9 FM became the first English radio station to win the Government’s ‘Investor in People’ Award for the quality of its staff management and career development
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On the recommendation of US radio broker Robert Richer, was invited to become CEO of radio pilot group JazzRadio Berlin, co-writing the station’s successful application for a full 7-year licence to broadcast
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Led a successful challenge at the German national competition court to restrictive practices excluding smaller radio stations from the national audience ‘Media-Analyse’ audience research survey
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JazzRadio Berlin has won more international radio programming awards (24 in total) than any other German radio station apart from national public broadcaster Deutsche Welle
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Wrote the strategy paper which led to the establishment of Radiozentrale, Germany’s own radio advertising bureau
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Initiated a successful campaign to bring the US National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) European conference to Berlin.
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Please see #3
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