Wesley Rose International Media Achievement Award
Award Criteria
This 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.
2022 – Bob Shennan, BBC (UK)
2021 – Ricky Marshall, BBC Radio 2 (UK)
2020 – Claire Horton, Claire Horton PR (UK)
2019 – Rob Farina, iHeartRadio (Canada)
2018 – Mark Hagen, BBC Radio 2 (UK)
2017 – Richard Wootton, Richard Wootton Publicity (UK)
2015 – No Award Presented
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)