Journalist Toni Clapés, from RAC1, has been recognized as the best radio professional in the 23rd edition of the Ràdio Associació awards, presented yesterday by the organization’s president, Jordi Margarit. This edition, prior to the centenary of the radio, also awarded Joan Lluís Garcia, from RAC1; the programs El suplement, from Catalunya Ràdio, and We could do better, from À Punt, and the platform La Xarxa. The award ceremony will take place on April 20 at the ONCE Auditorium in Barcelona.
The prize for the best radio professional went to Toni Clapés, director of the Versió programs “Since its beginnings, now 25 years ago, it has led the country’s radio afternoons. He has been able to build a particular and choral universe, in which the talent, information and entertainment of a very powerful team have become benchmarks in the listeners’ daily lives”, emphasized the jury.
“He is a person who doesn’t stop, he shuts up, makes people talk, starts topics and does interviews in a way that everyone understands everything, and if that means doing it with humor, Clapés and his people are the first who know how to do it”, he continued.
The Excellence Award was given to 35 years of El Suplement, from Catalunya Ràdio, “a consolidated weekend entertainment and information space” that has been hosted by Xavier Solà, Núria Ferré, Tatiana Sisquella , Sílvia Cóppulo, Ricard Ustrell and, currently, by Roger Escapa.
The award for the best radio program went to Podríème fer ho mellor, from À Punt Mèdia, “a magazine disaster that, from the most outstanding information of the week, drifts towards entertainment and humor” , the jury emphasized. In this category, the La Sotana podcast received a mention because it analyzes “current events in a direct and acidic way”.
In Innovation, the award went to XAL’s La Xarxa, “a free Catalan content platform that positions local audiovisual in the digital ecosystem”. And a mention of quality for L’informative viral, from the Associació Escola de Ràdio i Periodisme Digital de l’Empordà, in Pals.
In the Inclusion category, the prize went to Ràdio Palafrugell’s Sí, í qué?, and the mention went to Entre aví i màn. Chronicles from Ethiopia, from IB3 Radio. How do you see it was awarded as the best local program? , from Ràdio Igualada, with a mention for Coblejant, from Ràdio Calella Televisió. And the 1924 audiovisual award went to Jasmine
The four honorable mentions went to Joan Lluís Garcia, journalist and head of sports at RAC1, for his vocation and recovery effort “at the time of returning to radio”, after the serious motorcycle accident that suffered, and for journalists Eduard Boet, Rafael Turia and Magda Llurba, for their professional careers.
