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Adam Houlihan

He instead returned to his earlier interest in horse racing, hosting a horse-racing tips show with Brett Phillips and Nick Evans on radio station SEN 1116 and training jockeys in diet and fitness.In 2007 he chose to take some great advise from mentor and now business partner Bruce Armstrong and start his own promotional merchandise business called CorpEdge Marketing.

Bobbie Pryor

Pryor has previously worked as Venus on Invicta FM co-presenting the 9pm to 1am show in the early 1990s with Chris Ryder (during his Caesar The Boogieman days) and later with his replacement Ian Collins this time under her real name.

Christian Argenti

The radio industry's governing body in Australia acknowledged Argenti's work when it announced him as a finalist in the category of 'Best Talk Presenter' for the Australian Commercial Radio Awards (ACRAS) in 2011 and again in 2012 alongside veterans Neil Mitchell, Ray Hadley, Paul Murray and John Stanley.

Cinderella Rockefella

According to Radio Caroline DJ Andy Archer, the song was the last to be played on Radio Caroline South on the night of 2-3 March 1968, before its radio ship (like that of its sister station Radio Caroline North) was towed into harbour over unpaid debts on the morning of 3 March.

Geoff Lloyd

Geoff Lloyd (born 20 April 1973 in Withington, Manchester) is a British radio presenter best known for his radio shows on Virgin Radio and Absolute Radio, including the Pete And Geoff Breakfast Show (January 2003 to December 2005, alongside Pete Mitchell), The Geoff Show (January 2006 to September 2008, with his co-host Annabel Port) and Geoff Lloyd's Hometime Show (September 2008 to present, again with Port).

Leslie Cannold

For many years she talked life, work and ethics with well-known radio and TV broadcater Virginia Trioli on 774 ABC Melbourne and now appears regularly on Radio 4BC and Deborah Cameron's morning show on 702 ABC Sydney.

No poo

Following a 2007 radio interview that Australian Richard Glover held with Matthew Parris (a Times columnist "who hadn't shampooed for more than a decade"), Glover "decided to challenge his audience to go without shampoo for six weeks".

Not Today, Thank You

It stars Harry Shearer (known for the Simpsons and This Is Spinal Tap) as Nostrils, a man convinced that he is extremely unattractive, and Brian Hayes as Brian Hughes, an aging radio presenter who tries to broadcast his radio show from his grandmother's basement before being met by a TV producer.

Rebecca De Unamuno

She is a regular guest on Richard Glover's weekly comedy wrap up Thank God It's Friday on 702 ABC Sydney.

Rich tea

In 2004, Terry Wogan, a radio presenter for the BBC, described the Rich Tea as the "Lord of all Biscuits" on his Radio 2 breakfast show.

The Wiley Park Singers

The album was championed by ABC Radio’s Richard Glover and 2UE’s Alan Jones at a time when the south-western suburbs of Sydney were receiving negative media attention in the wake of the Lakemba shootings.


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2008 in Israeli film

1 April – Shosh Atari, 58, Israeli radio presenter and actress - heart attack.

2009 Nakumatt supermarket fire

Actress and radio presenter Angel Wainaina, known for her role as Sergeant Maria on the Cobra Squad TV series, was one of the victims and her body has been identified.

Adrian Franklin

Adrian Franklin is a professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania and a well known television and radio presenter of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, having done work for such programs as By Design on ABC Radio National and also for the ABC television series Collectors where, with Gordon Brown and Claudia Chan Shaw, he was one of the panel of experts.

An Lemmens

An Lemmens (born 8 September 1980) is a television and radio presenter at VTM/2BE/Studio Brussel and a former VJ on TMF Belgium.

Andy Crane

Howard Andrew "Andy" Crane (born 24 February 1964, Morecambe, Lancashire) is an English television and radio presenter, best known for presenting Children's BBC between 1987 and 1990 and for his current work as presenter on BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Sheffield and BBC Radio 5 Live.

Angelica Bell

Angellica Bell (born 1976), British television and radio presenter

Anna Romantowska

She has been married to the Polish actor and director Krzysztof Kolberger as well as the Polish radio presenter, disc jockey, director, screenwriter and producer Jacek Bromski.

Artane, Dublin

Ex-Big Brother star, now TV/radio presenter, Ray Shah grew up and went to school in St. David's N.B.S & C.B.S in Artane.

Aunt Daisy

Maud Ruby Basham MBE (née Taylor; 30 August 1879 – 14 July 1963), usually known as Daisy Basham or professionally as Aunt Daisy, was a well-known New Zealand radio broadcaster from 1930 to 1963.

Ben Burrell

Ben Burrell (born 7 May 1987) is a radio presenter from the United Kingdom, currently presenting the network evening show on Free Radio (Weekends 10pm-1am) and a number of shows on Gem 106.

Bohdan X

Bohdan lasted on 3RRR for 17 years, interviewed in November 2006, he reflected on being a radio presenter and told Larissa Dubecki of The Age, "I said I wanted a punk show. Greig Pickhaver (later known as the comic HG Nelson) said to come down. They got me to come in at 11am and I was on air that afternoon. Volunteers were a lot harder to come by in those days. But I fitted right in; it was like a family".

C. W. Stoneking

In 2006, radio presenter Tim Ritchie picked Stoneking's King Hokum as his album of the year on Radio National's Breakfast program.

Carolyn Stewart

Carolyn Stewart is a popular radio presenter on U105, a station broadcasting in the Greater Belfast region of Northern Ireland.

Charles Chester

Charlie Chester (1914–1997), British comedian and TV and radio presenter

Dan Hipgrave

In August 2007, Hipgrave announced his engagement to television and radio presenter Lynsey Horn marrying her on 8 November 2008 at Langley Castle, Northumbria.

Derek Hobson

Derek Hobson (born on March 23, 1949) is a TV and radio broadcaster and journalist, best known as the original host of ITV's New Faces, which introduced, among others, Lenny Henry, Victoria Wood, Jim Davidson, Les Dennis and Michael Barrymore to a Saturday night audience of more than twelve million viewers.

DJ UCH

Uchenna Martin Anyanwu (born August 30, 1979) in New York City, known professionally as Uch or DJ Uch is an American radio presenter, mixshow dj, and house music producer originally from The Bronx, New York.

Dublin Business School

Irish personality and Q102 radio presenter Ray Shah attended the school in the graduate year of 2003, just before he auditioned for Big Brother 4.

Eoghan McDermott

Eoghan McDermott (also known as Eoghan Mac Diarmada) is an Irish television and radio presenter mostly known for hosting Next Week's News and The Voice of Ireland.

Eric Pickles

Pickles also appeared as a radio presenter on local community radio station Phoenix FM together with the then Leader of Brentwood Council (and fellow Conservative) Brandon Lewis in a show titled The Eric and Brandon Show.

Grimmy

Nick Grimshaw, often known as Grimmy, a British television and radio presenter

Ian Cameron

Eoin Cameron (born 1951), Australian radio presenter and former politician

Ji-hwan

Ahn Ji-hwan (born 1969), South Korean voice actor, television/radio presenter, and actor

Lester Simpson

Lester Simpson is a folk singer and radio presenter on BBC Local Radio in Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.

Martyn Lee

Martyn Lee (born July 22, 1978) is a national radio broadcaster, Sony award-winning radio producer, NLP Master Practitioner and Hypnotist.

Matse Uwatse

In 2009 she won the Women in Media and Entertainment Awards for her "Excellence in Radio Presenting", and the African Voices Awards in Nairobi, Kenya as the "Most Outstanding Radio Presenter in West Africa" 2009.

Matt Forde

Matt Forde is a Nottingham-born comedian, comedy writer, radio presenter and former political advisor for the Labour party.

McGiffin

Carol McGiffin (born 1960), English television and radio presenter

Mondialement vôtre

Dalida sang "Confidences sur la fréquence" with a little boy called "Antoine" who was a Radio presenter at the time.

Nicholas Pandolfi

He was named BBC Local Radio "Presenter of the Year" at the 2004 Frank Gillard Awards and won the bronze in the category in 2006 for his work at BBC Radio Suffolk.

Robert Ugbomeh Collins

His elder brother Chucks Robert, is a Nigerian musician and a radio presenter popularly known as "Spaceman" he presently works for Cosmo FM enugu Nigeria, formerly presents a musical program (Zebra crossing) on Africa independent Television AIT.

Ron Johnson

Jon Ronson, journalist (born 1967), documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and author

Russell Davis

Russell Davies (born 1946), British radio presenter and journalist

Santa Maria College, Perth

Judith Lucy – Stand-up comedian, radio presenter and actress, starring in films such as Crackerjack and Bad Eggs

Stephen Richards

Steve Richards (born 1960), British television and radio presenter and newspaper political columnist

The Late Show with JoAnne Good

The Late Show with Joanne Good is a live late-night program on BBC London 94.9 that has been broadcast since 11 January 2010, and is hosted by actress and radio presenter JoAnne Good.

Tractor Monkeys

The show features two teams of guest panellists, one led by comedian Dave O'Neil and the other by radio presenter Katie "Monty" Dimond.

United Biscuits

The United Biscuits Network, a closed-circuit radio network serving their factories across the UK which was active from 1970 to 1979, spawned the career of UK radio presenter Steve Allen and TV and radio personality Dale Winton.

Wheen

Natalie Wheen (born 1947), English classical music radio presenter

Wippa

Michael "Wippa" Wipfli (born 29 September 1979) is an Australian radio presenter on the Nova 969 breakfast show Fitzy and Wippa with Ryan Fitzgerald.

Yvonne Keeley

She currently works as radio presenter with the Dutch regional broadcaster Radio Rijnmond.

Zdzisław Beksiński

His wife, Zofia, died in 1998; a year later, on Christmas Eve 1999, his son Tomasz (a popular radio presenter, music journalist and movie translator) committed suicide.