Richard Skinner Biography
Richard Skinner is a radio and television broadcaster from the United Kingdom who was the opening announcer and TV anchor for the 1985 Live Aid concert, and he is the only presenter to have headed all three of the BBC’s premier pop music shows, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops, and Radio One Top 40.
How old is Richard Skinner? – Age
He is 71 years old as of 26 December 2022. He was born in 1951 in Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
Richard Skinner Family – Education
Skinner was raised in Portsmouth and attended Portsmouth Grammar School. He co-founded Portsmouth Hospital Broadcasting, a radio station serving St Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth, while still in high school, in 1970.
Richard Skinner Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Richard Skinner GLR
While still at Radio 1, Skinner had a daily show on BBC GLR from the turn of the century, featuring an eclectic mix of recorded and live music, as well as live interviews ranging from pop to politics. This was the case until the end of December 1992.
Richard Skinner Magic
After a brief stint as a breakfast broadcaster at London’s Liberty Radio alongside Carol McGiffin, Skinner joined London’s Melody FM, which later became Magic 105.4, in 1997, presenting the mid-morning show for six years until September 2003. Skinner returned to Magic 105.4 in August 2013 to fill in for absent presenters. In 2014, Skinner continued to give coverage.
Richard Skinner Radio 1
In October 1973, Skinner joined BBC Radio 1 as one of the first moderators of Newsbeat. He continued in this position until 1980, when he took over the Monday-Thursday evening show from Mike Read in December 1980 and became a regular presenter of music programs for Radio 1. Skinner continued as a studio producer for Newsbeat while also working for Thames Television as an in-vision continuity announcer. Skinner claims that he broke the news of John Lennon’s death to Paul McCartney’s family by phone in the early hours of December 9th, 1980, while he was working on Newsbeat.
Skinner started hosting Radio 1’s Rock On magazine show on Saturday afternoons and Roundtable on Friday evenings at the end of 1981. On these shows, he and other guests would review the week’s new releases. He went on with the program until late 1985. Skinner and Andy Batten-Foster co-hosted the Saturday Live show from 4 to 6 p.m., beginning in 1983, in addition to Roundtable.
Skinner took over the FM-based Sunday afternoon Top 40 show on September 30, 1984, 17 years after Radio 1 began. On the same day, David Jensen, who had recently left Radio 1, began competing to host The Network Chart Show on commercial radio. Skinner hosted Top of the Pops from 1980 to 1985 and The Old Grey Whistle Test from 1984 to 1986 on BBC television. He likewise assumed two parts in the Bandage and Live Guide peculiarity of the 1980s. On Skinner’s Radio 1 show in 1984, Bob Geldof announced the formation of the Band Aid project rather than the anticipated release of a new Boomtown Rats album.
Then, on July 13, 1985, Skinner announced the beginning of Live Aid, “It’s twelve o’clock in London…” as the event began. He likewise fronted the primary long stretches of BBC television’s Bafta Grant winning inclusion. Skinner returned to Radio 1 to host a midnight show that played a variety of album-oriented music when the station’s hours were extended in October 1988, when it had acquired its own FM transmitters. Skinner took over Roger Scott’s Saturday afternoon Radio 1 show, the “Saturday Sequence,” at the end of 1989 after Scott’s early death from cancer. Skinner also took charge of Scott’s Classic Albums series in 1991.
He left the midnight show in April 1990 to be replaced by Bob Harris, but he stayed with the Saturday Sequence until Johnnie Walker took over in 1991.