Cosgrove, who led the Scotland team that campaigned successfully to bring one of the Channel 4 hubs to Glasgow, is the latest recipient of the prestigious RTS Scotland Award.

The inaugural Writer award went to Lorna Martin, who adapted her best-selling book, Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, for television. Women on the Verge, a Merman/House Productions series, aired on UKTV channel W and RTÉ2.

Synchronicity Films series The Cry, which secured six nominations in total, won the Drama prize. The BBC One thriller starred Jenna Coleman as a teacher whose life collapses after her baby son disappears.

Scotland’s new Gaelic TV channel BBC ALBA/MG ALBA took home four awards: Buidheagain (Children’s); FUNC (Comedy); Tommy Burns (Sport: Programme); and the Camera craft award for Daibhidh Martin who shot a two-part documentary about the traditional annual hunt for young gannets, Sùlaisgeir An t-Sealg.

“We’ve had more Gaelic entries than ever before, plus a number of independent companies submitting entries for the first time,” said RTS Scotland Chair April Chamberlain.

The Young Journalist Award went to Ceri Isfryn who produced Firecrest Films’ documentary for Channel 4’s Dispatches current affairs strand, Inside Facebook: Secrets of the Social Network. She received a prize of £1,000 in memory of former BBC Scotland news and current affairs editor George Sinclair.

Glasgow indie Firecrest Films also makes Supershoppers, whose presenter, Sabrina Grant, won the On-screen Personality award.

BBC Studios’ film for the long-running imagine… programme, Rupert Everett: Born to be Wilde, scooped the Documentary and Specialist Factual: Arts prize and the Editing craft award for Berny McGurk.

What Separates Us From the Beasts, a drama made by students from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, won the overall Student Award, holding off the winners of the Animation, Comedy and Entertainment, Short Form and Factual categories from the RTS Scotland Student Awards in April. The student films can be viewed on the STV Player.

The ceremony was held at the Old Fruitmarket in Glasgow and hosted by STV presenter Jennifer Reoch, and stand-up comedian and Heart radio presenter Des Clarke. A record number of entries were received for awards across 24 categories.

“What a great year it has been for the creative industries in Scotland,” said Lisa Hazlehurst, head of Lion Television and Chair of the RTS Scotland Awards. “Scotland’s television industry continues to expand and the high standard of submissions demonstrate what brilliant programmes are being produced here.”