WESLEY ROSE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Wesley Rose International Media Achievement Award was established to recognize outstanding achievements in the media as they relate to Country Music outside of the United States. Print and Internet journalists, columnists, authors, editors, and television writers, producers, & bookers who reside outside the United States are eligible to win this award to be presented only when it is deemed that a recipient is worthy of recognition.

2023 Nominees

  • Jill Johnson, ‘Jills Veranda’ SVT, Sweden
  • Ross Jones, Holler, UK
  • Richard Murdoch, BBC Radio, Scotland
  • Dayna Bourgoin, Pure Country Radio, iHeartRadio, Canada

2022 – Rob Shennan, BBC, UK

2021 – Ricky Marshall, BBC Radio 2, UK

2020 – Claire Horton, Claire Horton PR, U.K.

2019 – Rob Farina, iHeartRadio, Canada

2018 – Mark Hagen, BBC Radio 2, UK

2017 – Richard Wootton, Richard Wootton Publicity, UK

2016 – Bob Harris, BBC, UK

2014 – Bob Shennan, BBC Radio 2, UK

2013 – Duncan Warwick, Country Music People, UK

2012 – Bob Harris, BBC Radio 2, UK

2011 – Marie Moloney, Richard Wootton Publicity, UK

2011 – Rineke Van Beek (posthumously)

2010 – Cheryl Byrnes, Australia

2009 – Al Booth, BBC Radio 2, UK

2008 – Roger Ryan, Ireland

2007 – Alan Cackett, UK

2006 – Tim Daley, CMC, Australia

2005 – Country Gazette, The Netherlands

2004 – Terry Wogan and Paul Walters, UK

2003 – Country Music People, UK

2002 – CMT, Canada

2001 – Howard Bowles, HSB Media, UK

2000 – Gill Robert, MusicCountry, Australia/Pacific Rim

1999 – Trevor Dann, BBC Music Entertainment, UK

1998 – The Midday Show, Australia

1997 – BBC Radio 2, UK

1996 – Mark Hagen, VH-1, UK

1995 – Georges Lang, RTL, Luxembourg

1994 – Avril MacRory, BBC Television, UK

1993 – Tony Byworth, Byworth Wootton, UK

1992 – Wally Whyton, BBC Radio 2, UK

1991 – Richard Wootton, Byworth Wootton, UK

1990 – Mark Cooper, BBC TV, UK