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Since August 5th, 2007, Boyd can now also be heard on Sunday nights on [[Play Radio, UK]] an internet radio station . |
Since August 5th, 2007, Boyd can now also be heard on Sunday nights on [[Play Radio, UK]] an internet radio station . |
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On his October 21st show, during a call with a skype caller, Tommy Boyd insisted that the fact that there were Auschwitz surivivors disproved the Holocaust, then hung up on the caller before he could argue the opposite point. Boys is trying desperately to keep this quite, but the show is available right at http://playradiouk.podbean.com/2007/10/22/tommy-duncan-hour-1-211007/ So this verifiable fact should not be removed from wikipedia. Tommy Boyd was accused of Anti-Semitic bullying by a number of people. |
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==External links== |
==External links== |
Revision as of 03:47, 5 November 2007
Tommy Boyd | |
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Born | December 14, 1952 |
Occupation | Broadcaster |
Timothy Leslie Boyd (born December 14, 1952), better known as Tommy Boyd, is a radio presenter and former children's television presenter who now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.
Early career
Tommy Boyd grew up in Ashford in Surrey before going to school in the English town of Feltham. While at school, he worked part-time at a Debenhams store in Staines. From there, Boyd went on to study at the University of Sussex. After his studies, Boyd became a dolphin trainer at The Brighton Dolphinarium and later as a red coat entertainer at a Butlins holiday camp in Bognor Regis.
Children's TV
From 1977 to 1980, he was co-presenter of the ITV children's magazine programme Magpie replacing Douglas Rae , but he is perhaps better known for having presented the Saturday TV-am show Wide Awake Club (called WAC '90 for the 1989 series) and its Sunday spin-off WAC Extra throughout the 1980s.
In the early 1980s, he could be heard as the voice of Biggum the giant (seen only as a large sandal and tartan-socked leg) on BBC television children's programme Jigsaw.
Between 1982 and 1984 he also fronted Central Television's flagship Saturday morning kids TV show The Saturday Show alongside Isla St Clair and followed this with Saturday Starship in 1985 (co presented by Bonnie Langford). From 1991–2 he spent a period as anchorman for ITV's children's strand, Children's ITV. He also served as a "space Jock" on the "Ratkan", a space ship which beamed programing to viewers of The Children's Channel, a satellite television channel, in 1993 and 1994.
Southern Sound
During the late 1980s Boyd was a radio presenter on the ILR station Southern Sound on the late Sunday evening show along with Nicky Keig-Shevlin. The format of the show was phone-in/quiz style with the occasional record thrown in - 'Two Little Boys' by Rolf Harris and 'Narcissus' by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band ("Hey, you have the same trouble with your trousers I do!" etc.) being two that featured regularly. Other than simply being a great bit of light-entertainment, the main aim of the show was to make the weekend last longer before the majority of listeners had to endure the Monday morning return to school or work. Boyd signed off each show by playing "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong.
Talk Radio
He was a radio presenter on the British AM station Talk Radio (later talkSPORT) from its inception in February 1995 until November 1998, when he lost his job in a reshuffle at the station after it was taken over by a consortium led by former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie.
It was during this tenure that Boyd consolidated his reputation for being controversial. Broadcasting at first from 3pm to 7pm, transferring later to the 1pm to 4pm timeslot, the format of the show would involve Boyd making a proposition (e.g "Save a life ... Humiliate a sunbather" or "Who needs their legs?") and engaging in a frequently heated debate with the often ill-informed callers in which Boyd would always triumph.
Less argumentative strands of the show would also see the emergence of "The Angry Hour" and "The Wonderful Hour" the latter of which would always take place during the final hour of the Friday show.
During this period he presented the TV programme MLB on Five for its first few months in 1997. One week he called in sick and never turned up to host the programme again.[citation needed] He was replaced by Johnny Gould.
Five Live & LBC
He subsequently worked for BBC Radio Five Live, before being sacked for his argumentative and controversial style of broadcasting. He also spent some time at the local station LBC in London, working on the Sunday evening phone-in during the early 80s and later co-presenting the 3am show with Anne Diamond leaving in 1999.
talkSPORT
In January 2000, Talk Radio was rebranded as talkSPORT, but with part of its schedules being retained for talk and non-sport phone in. After covering for absent presenters on several occasions, Boyd took up a permanent position in April 2000.
In May 2000, he began an experiment on his Sunday night slot whereby calls would go straight to air unscreened. This later evolved into The Human Zoo. Boyd presented the show with Asher Gould, originally just the engineer on the show. This style of programme came to light again in May 2006 when the LBC presenter Iain Lee (who openly cites Boyd as one of his broadcasting heroes) started a show called Triple M, expanded from a half-hour section of his regular show using such format.
Boyd would also go on to host a professional wrestling radio show on talkSPORT. Boyd was soon joined by professional wrestler Alex Shane who became a regular co host and with his knowledge of wrestling soon making the previously loosely based wrestling show the UK's first fully fledged national wrestling radio show which often saw Boyd introduce wrestling storylines into the actual radio show. This is common in US wrestling, and one storyline involved Shane attacking Boyd and being forcefully removed from the show.
Boyd also worked alongside Shane and the wrestling promotion Frontier Wrestling Alliance to help produce and promote one of its largest early shows, FWA Revival in 2002, which was broadcast on national TV. However, a falling out with Boyd would see Shane leave the radio show and Boyd attempt to buy out 75% of the shares of the FWA. However, before the sale could go through Boyd was sacked from TalkSPORT in March 2002 after failing to use the profanity delay to 'dump' a caller's remarks that the Royal Family should be shot.
Without this major platform to promote FWA the sale to Boyd was put on hold. Due to popular demand, Shane was soon brought into to replace the radio programme with a brand new show, Wrestle-Talk. It wasn't long before Shane used this new position and power to buy out his former business partners and become the majority share holder of FWA, ending Boyd's attempt to own the company.
Current Work
In Early 2004, Boyd joined BBC Southern Counties Radio, where he presented a Saturday Night show (with a live internet feed) from 9pm-1am with co-presenter Allison Ferns. It was here that the Human Zoo format was resurrected along with the more controversial aspects of the Talk Radio days. For the first few months in the slot, many (generally elderly) listeners would phone-in and express their dismay at this apparent departure from the output they had so far been accustomed to. Callers would often state their annoyance then quickly hang up, not wishing to cross swords with Boyd. Those who were brave enough be it to complain or to disagree with many of Boyd's proposals would frequently find themselves confronted with a strong argument. Boyd has stated that one of the things that annoys him is a person with a closed mind.
On the occasions when Allison Ferns was absent, cover would come in the guises of Lisa Francesca Nand, Alison Mead, and on one show (New Year's Eve 2005), Boyd's wife, Jayne.
Since April 2006 Boyd has presented a daily afternoon show from 1pm to 4pm, Monday to Friday. Initially the show was co-presented with Allison Ferns again but is now hosted by Boyd alone. Several popular elements from the past have resurfaced, such as "The Angry Hour", "The Irritable Hour", and once again on the final hour of the Friday show "The Wonderful Hour".
Since August 5th, 2007, Boyd can now also be heard on Sunday nights on Play Radio, UK an internet radio station .
On his October 21st show, during a call with a skype caller, Tommy Boyd insisted that the fact that there were Auschwitz surivivors disproved the Holocaust, then hung up on the caller before he could argue the opposite point. Boys is trying desperately to keep this quite, but the show is available right at http://playradiouk.podbean.com/2007/10/22/tommy-duncan-hour-1-211007/ So this verifiable fact should not be removed from wikipedia. Tommy Boyd was accused of Anti-Semitic bullying by a number of people.
External links
- BBC Southern Counties Radio
- Play Radio UK
- The Tommy Boyd Shrine - Fan site
- Biography at Aircheck Tracker