WESLEY ROSE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The Wesley Rose International Media Achievement 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.
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