Real Radio North West - News and Sport

News and Sport

Real Radio runs a seven-day North West news service from its GMG Radio North West news team, which provides bulletins for Real Radio and Smooth Radio. On weekdays, bulletins are broadcast on the hour between 6am and 6pm with headlines on the half-hour between 6am & 9am and 4pm & 6pm. Sports updates are broadcast during these during half hourly bulletins at breakfast and drivetime. At weekends, bulletins are broadcast on the hour between 7am and 2pm.

In the evenings and overnight between 8pm and 5am on weekdays, and between 3pm and 6am on weekends, the stations carry Sky News Radio bulletins provided by IRN in London.

As Century, the station won three awards in the 2008 IRN Awards, including for Best Scoop, in which they managed to obtain an interview from a witness who saw the shooting of Liverpool schoolboy Rhys Jones. The station also won a Bronze Award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards for its coverage of the subsequent murder trial.

In 2010, Real Radio North West won News Team of the Year at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards and also picked up the Social Action Initiative Award for its internet safety campaign, Websafe. The team also won a Bronze award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards for News Journalist of the Year and a Silver Sony Radio Academy Award for the documentary The Return To Hillsborough, which commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

In 2012, the station was again named News Team of the Year, this time at the IRN Awards.

The GMG Radio North West news team also won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2012 for Feature of the Year following its Walking with The Wounded documentary.