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Tony Lit MBE wins top award at British Sikh Awards 2023

Sunrise Radio MD Tony Lit MBE has won the Outstanding Sikh Award 2023. The event, held in Birmingham last week, celebrates the strength and achievements of the British Sikh community over the last year. Tony Lit comments...

Sunrise Radio reports from the IIFA Awards in Abu Dhabi

Sunrise Radio will be reporting back to listeners in the UK from the IIFA Awards 2023 in Abu Dhabi. The International Indian Film Academy Awards, Bollywood’s biggest awards show, and the world’s biggest global Indian media event is back in Abu Dhabi from the 25th to the 27th of May...

Broadcasting duo Raj & Pablo join Sunrise Radio schedule

Sunrise Radio has added a new show by Bollywood duo Raj Dhanda and Pablo Sat-Bhambra to its schedule. The double act will be starting their new show live every Sunday from 12th December at 4pm. The station says: “Expect all the biggest Bollywood names, gossip and star interviews plus fresh new magic, full of fun and frolics that only this duo can pull off!"...

Radio Station of the Year award for Sunrise Radio

Sunrise Radio has been announced as Radio Station of the Year 2021 at the ninth annual Asian Media Awards. It’s the fourth time Sunrise Radio has won the title at the event, which this year took place at the Emirates Old Trafford on Friday 29th October. Other winners include BBC Asian Network’s Bobby Friction getting Best Radio Show and Noreen Khan recognised as Radio Presenter of the Year...

Sunrise Radio partners with UK Asian Film Festival

Sunrise Radio is supporting the 23rd Edition of the UK Asian Film Festival. Historically this Film Festival showcases South Asian feminist films and the work of pioneering female artist and auteurs. The Festival will take place from the 26th May to 6th June on the Modern Films website UKAFF, and in venues across London, Leicester and Coventry, now that lock-down restrictions are being eased...

Presenter and journalist Anila Dhami joins Sunrise Radio

Sunrise Radio has hired presenter and journalist Anila Dhami to host a new current affairs show. The new weekly programme starts on Sunday 1st November 2020 with the television host and marks a return for a current affairs show to the station. Tony Lit MBE said, “Sunrise Radio has always been the voice for British Asians over the past 31 years and with the challenges being faced here in the UK and Worldwide, I feel that it’s important that Sunrise keeps our listeners informed and also gives them a platform to share their opinions...

RAJAR Q4 2019: London and national brands round-up

Coverage of the general election helped 5 Live, Radio 4 and LBC each add half a million listeners across 2019. 5 Live is up from 4.9m to 5.4m in the Q4/2019 RAJAR listening figures, while Radio 4 has added a similar amount, rising from 10.4m a year ago to 10.9m now. LBC, including new digital station LBC News, posts a record high of 2.7m listeners (up more than half a million year on year), while talkRADIO is up more than 40% from 12 months ago to now have 433,000 listeners a week – another record high for the Wireless station...

RAJAR Q3 2019: London and national brands round-up

Zoe Ball has lost another 364,000 listeners to her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show in the latest radio listening figures from RAJAR. It means more than a million weekly listeners have switched off since she took over the breakfast show from Chris Evans in January. In the period 24th June to 15th September 2019 (Q3/2019), Radio 2 breakfast had a weekly reach of 7.902m – that’s down from 8.266m in Q2 and 9.047m in Q1.While Zoe is still the presenter of the UK’s biggest breakfast show, the figures are the lowest for the slot in a decade – since...

RAJAR Q2 2019: London and national brands round-up

Zoe Ball has lost more than three quarters of a million listeners to her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, according to the latest audience research from RAJAR. The show’s reach is down 781,000 quarter-on-quarter to 8.266m for the three months survey period up to the 23rd June 2019. In Q1/19 she had 9.047m listeners; in Q2/2018 Chris Evans reached 9.038m. Radio 2’s audience at breakfast is now the lowest its been since Q3/2010, when Evans was fairly new in the job.