Rules & Requirements
Rules to enter the IMRO Awards
The aim of the IMRO Awards is to celebrate programming that caters principally for the needs of the radio audience on the island of Ireland.
It is very much in your own interest to read the rules, category descriptions and judging criteria carefully to decide whether your proposed submission is eligible for the category you have selected, and to find out what materials you will need to support your entry.
Disqualification may occur if the submission requirements are not fulfilled.
Rules regarding Submitting Broadcast Material
- No alteration of transmitted material is permitted.
- Where permitted, music, ad breaks and information segments may be telescoped, with a 2 second dead air “intro” and “outro” indexing the telescoping. No further alteration of transmitted material is permitted.
- Additional production e.g.the insertion of music beds, voice–overs or voice links between extracts is not permitted. Entries may be disqualified if they do not comply with this requirement.
- Where issues of editing arise during the judging process, stations may be called upon to provide original log tapes.
- The same conditions apply to programme compilations – extracts, therefore, should not be internally edited. Please note that entries are required to be in transmission sequence and not necessarily continuous.
- A copy of the full programme from which extracts are taken should be retained. Failure to supply this on request may result in disqualification, subject to the judges’ discretion.
- If you are submitting a compilation of extracts, please fade down and fade up between each extract.
Rules regarding Submitting Written Material
You MUST include the following with your submission(s):
- To aid the judging process you MUST include a running order outlining the content and sequencing of the entry you are submitting unless the category entry requirements specifically exclude it. This should be attached when up-loading your entry on-line.
- A written summary (250 words max. with the exception of Group F where a max. 500 word summary must be entered) to position your entry and to put it into context, explaining how it served your audience and met your objectives. Please attach this document when uploading your entry on-line.
- The sponsors, organising committee and judging panel will not be held accountable for the failure of any judge or judges to follow the judging instructions issued to them.
- All ‘ties’ will be decided by the casting vote of the chairperson of the judging panel.
- The organising committee may, at its sole discretion, decide to use any entry or entries in the public domain (broadcasting for example), for the purpose of promoting the IMRO Radio Awards. Entrants agree to the use of their entries – or any part of them – for this purpose and waive any claim they may have to remuneration.
- The decision of the judges is final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
- Submitting an entry to the IMRO Radio Awards is deemed to confirm your acceptance of all the terms and conditions that apply.
Hints
In all categories judges will be seeking to reward the contribution made by radio practitioners, rather than the input of those whose contribution would have been equally as impressive on another medium.
For example, the relay of an outstanding musical performance will merit less attention than the added value an imaginative radio practitioner might have brought to such a performance.
Rules and Requirements of Judging
- You are required to keep a copy of the master tape from which your programme or extracts are taken as the judges may ask for it. Failure to supply this information on request may result in disqualification, as will any evidence of editing (beyond that which is permitted). Spot checks will take place and stations will be called upon, at random, to provide original log tapes.
- A category will not be judged if insufficient entries are received. In these circumstances, entry fees will be returned.
- The sponsors, organising committee and judging panel will not be held accountable for the failure of any judge or judges to follow the judging instructions issued to them.
- All ‘ties’ will be decided by the casting vote of the chairperson of the judging panel.
- The organising committee may, at its sole discretion, decide to use any entry or entries in the public domain (broadcasting for example), for the purpose of promoting the IMRO Radio Awards. Entrants agree to the use of their entries – or any part of them – for this purpose and waive any claim they may have to remuneration.
- The decision of the judges is final and no further correspondence will be entered into.
- Submitting an entry to the IMRO Radio Awards is deemed to confirm your acceptance of all the terms and conditions that apply.
