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.
2024 Richard Murdoch, BBC Radio (Scotland)
2023 Ross Jones, Holler (UK)
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)
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)