Mike
Owen Media – The Story So Far!
Mike Owen Media, a media consultancy business, was
established in 1997. Managing Director, Mike Owen, has over
30 years experience in the broadcast industry and has won a
number of major awards including the Politzer award for
outstanding services to publishing, two Sony awards and a
Prix Italia nomination. These awards were granted during
his time at BRMB in Birmingham from 1978 to 1997, during
which time he was Programme Controller, Operations Director
and then General Manager.
The business has won numerous awards in the fields of PR
and promotion. For example, in 1999, Mike Owen Media won
the Cream Award for Best PR Campaign, the Grand Prix Cream
Award for PR, and the KPMG award for Best Promotion. The
company was also nominated for Campaign Magazine’s
Best Stunt of the Year.
In 1999, Mike Owen Media ran the media side of one of the
biggest broadcast events in the history of UK Radio.
BRMB‘s
“Two Strangers and a Wedding”
married
two complete strangers live on air and received world wide
media coverage. The promotion was described by one media
commentator as “the biggest radio event since Orson
Welles started the ‘War of the Worlds’”.
The Wedding had over one hundred million media hits in the
UK alone, and interest continued long after the marriage
– so much so that in 2006 BRMB and Mike Owen Media
repeated the event with
“Two Strangers and a Wedding
2”, which
scaled similar heights of impact with features appearing
across the world in such countries & regions as the US,
South Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Australia.