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Ron Jones is a
Welsh
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sports commentator.
Broadcasting career
Jones began working for the
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in 1979.
His broadcasting career began when he was living and working as a sports coach in
Jamaica
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when was asked to work on local programmes.
When he returned to the
UK, Ron lectured at the
University of Wales
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before moving to
London
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in 1984 to focus on sports commentating, primarily football. He covered football on
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales is a Welsh radio station owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It began broadcasting on 13 November 1978, replacing the 'Radio 4 Wales' opt-out service (previously the Welsh Home Service). Radio Wales b ...
for a number of years and even did a few television commentaries for
BBC Wales but his main career progression came when he moved to
BBC Radio 2 (which covered sport before
BBC Radio 5 Live was set up), where he could be heard nationally working alongside fellow
Welshman Peter Jones as well as
Bryon Butler
Ewart Bryon Butler (5 June 1934 – 26 April 2001) was an English writer and broadcaster, best known as the BBC's football correspondent from 1968 to 1991.
He was born in Taunton, Somerset and educated at Taunton School. After working for a ...
and
Alan Green.
An all rounder, he has covered
football,
hockey
Hockey is a term used to denote a family of various types of both summer and winter team sports which originated on either an outdoor field, sheet of ice, or dry floor such as in a gymnasium. While these sports vary in specific rules, numbers o ...
,
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
,
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping ...
and
athletics
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Sports
* Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking
** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport
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, and gave some memorable broadcasts at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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in Seoul.
Ron has worked on five
World Cup
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tournaments and covered English
Premier League
The Premier League (legal name: The Football Association Premier League Limited) is the highest level of the men's English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Fo ...
matches for
Irish
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radio station
Today FM
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until his retirement in May 2018.
Personal life
Jones still lives in
Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the Bristol Channel to the south. It had a population in ...
with his family.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British association football commentators
Golf writers and broadcasters
Welsh rugby union commentators
Field hockey commentators
BBC sports presenters and reporters
Aberystwyth Town F.C. managers
Aberystwyth Town F.C. players
Welsh men's footballers
Men's association football players not categorized by position