"6 Music is a digital radio station and it's won national station of the year," said Shennan as he and his team collected the award at London's Grosvenor House Hotel after beating off sister station Radio 2 and Bauer's Kerrang! Radio.

The win follows 6 taking the radio station of the year prize at last month's Music Week Awards and makes it the first time a digital station has won the Sony award following a change in the categories at ...