Sony nominations raise two fingers to industry cutbacks

"Outstanding" is how Adrian van Klaveren , the controller of 5 Live, described Victoria Derbyshire's three Sony Radio Academy award nominations (including one for speech broadcaster of the year) in a triumphant email that also rejoiced in his network being up against TalkSport and Absolute Radio for top station. But it was Van Klaveren, some recipients sourly noted, who lopped an hour from Derbyshire's show a year ago; was there a degree of remorse in his celebrations too? As with the nomination of Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's Radio 2 show (cut back to three nights a week only last month) and the multiple nods to the doomed BBC stations 6 Music and Asian Network, the academy seems to have raised two fingers to broadcasting's suits.