Tony Currie (born 1951) is a Scottish broadcaster who worked as a

continuity announcer In broadcasting, continuity or presentation (or station break in the U.S. and Canada) is announcements, messages and graphics played by the broadcaster between specific programmes. It typically includes programme schedules, announcement of the ...

for

BBC Scotland BBC Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: ''BBC Alba'') is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland. It is one of the four BBC national regions, together with the BBC English Regions, BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Northern Ireland. I ...

Career

He began working at

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Radio in Los Angeles in 1972 before joining Scotland's first independent local radio station,

Radio Clyde Radio Clyde is a group of two Independent Local Radio stations serving Glasgow and West Central Scotland. Radio Clyde is owned and operated by Bauer, based at studios in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire and forms part of Bauer's Hits Radio and Gr ...

as its first voice on the air. In April 1976, he joined

Scottish Television Scottish Television (now, legally, known as STV Central Limited) is the ITV network franchisee for Central Scotland. The channel — the largest of the three ITV franchises in Scotland — has been in operation since 31 August 1957 and is the ...

as a continuity announcer, after freelancing at the station as a trail voiceover. He became chief announcer reading the daily lunchtime and late-evening Scottish News bulletins and bulletins within the nightly regional news programme, ''

Scotland Today ''Scotland Today'' is a Scottish regional news programme covering Central Scotland, produced by STV Central (formerly Scottish Television). Despite its name suggesting a national remit, the programme was actually limited to stories around STV's Ce ...

''. After leaving STV in January 1987, he became Controller of Programmes for the

Cable Authority The Cable Authority was the United Kingdom statutory body established by the Cable and Broadcasting Act 1984 to regulate the newly liberalised cable television industry. It came into existence on 1 December 1984 and took on its functions with e ...

and, latterly, cable programming controller for the

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. After a spell as chief executive of AsiaVision, he set up Irish satellite television station

Tara Television Tara Television (or Tara TV) was an Irish cable and satellite channel aimed primarily at Irish people living in Britain, it was set up in 1996 and began broadcasting a year later before being finally wound up during the early hours of 1 July 2002 ...

as director of programmes before becoming chairman and chief executive of ''Cambridge Cafe Radio''. He then became a television announcer-director for BBC Scotland's television channels, BBC ONE Scotland and BBC TWO Scotland, taking a year out to schedule, produce, and present BBC Radio Scotland's overnight strand, ''Nightshift.'' As host of that programme, he was the first to broadcast from the Corporation's headquarters at Pacific Quay, Glasgow. He chaired both the Royal Television Society of Scotland and the Radio Academy in Scotland. As a writer, he contributed to ''Radio Times'', ''TV Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Herald'', ''Scotland on Sunday'', and the ''Glasgow Evening Times'', and was a regular columnist for ''Broadcast magazine'', ''Broadcast Systems International'', The ''Times Educational Supplement'', and ''Communications Monthly''. He wrote three published books: ''A Concise History of British Television'', ''The Radio Times Story,'' and ''Not Quite Altogether Now!'', 2009 '')'' (the story of the launch and early days of radio Clyde). He is the director of internet radio station Radio Six International, which syndicates programming to 56 radio stations around the world. He presents various weekly shows, including ''Nothing But The Best'' and ''The Lively Lounge''. In 1993, Currie led a failed bid for ''Radio Six'' to win the new regional FM license for Central Scotland as a ''24-hour news and speech station''. The consortium lost out to Scot FM (now

Heart Scotland Heart Scotland is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. The station relaunched as Heart on 6 May 2014, serving Central and Southern Scotland from studios in Glasgow city centre. Heart Scotl ...

External links

Radio Six International official site

References

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