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4 unusual facts about Drive time


Ben Burrell

He has previously presented Drive time on Play Radio and worked at a number of stations across the South including The Quay, Spirit FM and Galaxy FM.

Colin Griffiths

Griffiths began his work as a broadcaster as the host of the breakfast show (and later the afternoon Drive time show) on the regional UK radio station 'Livewire' at the University of East Anglia, serving as the Deputy Station Manager of the station from 2001 to 2003, this show was also hosted with Rhys Peterson and was later moved to Brighton when the pair graduated in the form of their Radio Reverb show.

Hamish Blake

The pair have performed live and on television and radio, most notably with their drive-time radio program Hamish & Andy.

Tom Kraeutler

His home improvement tips are also broadcast across 350 radio stations weekdays during morning drive time.


Jenny Barker

Jenny Barker (born December 29, 1974) was the drive time presenter on Cross Rhythms City Radio in Stoke-on-Trent in 2005.

Mike Francesa

In 1989, WFAN was looking for hosts to replace the controversial Pete Franklin in the afternoon drive time period between 3 and 7 p.m.


see also

Big Tigger

As of January 2013, he took over the afternoon drive time slot (2-6PM) on WPGC's sister station, WVEE, in Atlanta.

City Talk 105.9

Presenters used to include actors Margi Clarke and Dean Sullivan, while Paul Jacobs (the Grand National commentator on Radio City) was on drive time, football personalities Ian St John and John Aldridge, established broadcaster Kim Hughes, experienced talk show hosts Pete Price and Roy Basnett, and newspaper journalists Larry Nield and Brian Reade.

Ian McGregor

He has also presented drive time for Manx Radio on the Isle of Man and worked as a presenter on the trial broadcasts of Chelmer Radio and Maidstone’s CTR (now KMfm).

The road, rail and river travel was presented on the breakfast show by Karen Redmond Smith who also worked for White Horse Ferries which ran the Gravesend-Tilbury ferry service, and on drive time by Claire Holley and Helen Downs.

Marc Maron

Goldberg reportedly did not "get" the comedy or agree with the satiric and often angry tone set by Maron and other writers (Jim Earl and Kent Jones) for a morning drive-time show.

Michael W. Perry

As he recalls, "I was a disc jockey by night, a student by day." In 1972, he moved to Hawaii, joining KKUA and later KSSK (known as K59 at the time), working the afternoon drive-time slot.

Phil Trow

In March 2013 he left the Breakfast Show on BBC Radio Derby after 3 years and returned to present the Drive Time show on BBC Radio Manchester.

Robert M. Isaac

During his tenure, KVUU radio aired a daily drive-time segment called "Stump Mayor Bob", in which the DJs would call the mayor's office and ask him trivia questions.

Steve Powers

Powers moved to WMCA radio in New York City and went on to anchor his own morning drive-time news/talk show.

WBSM

Ken Pittman: afternoon drive time host (2004-2012), conservative broadcaster who has been spot-lighted on national television news shows such as Fox News Channel's O'Reilly Factor and Weekend Live, also appeared on CNN and New England Cable News (NECN) several times with Jim Braude, currently a fill-in host at WPRO (AM) in Providence.

WRKO

On January 11, 2007, former Massachusetts House Speaker Tom Finneran replaced Miller as the morning drive-time host.