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Radio/TV Presenter and Author, Chris Moyles

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Chris Moyles

Christopher David Moyles was born on 22nd February 1974 in Leeds. He attended the Mount St. Mary’s Catholic High School in the city. Chris was still at school when he started his broadcasting career with Hospital Radio. This took place at WBHS (Wakefield’s Broadcast to Hospitals Service).

FIRST JOB IN RADIO

He managed to get a job as an assistant at Aire FM, his local commercial radio station in Leeds. Whilst at Aire FM, he also presented for Radio Top Shop in Leeds.

EARLY SUCCESS

Chris was given his own Saturday evening show on Aire FM and occasionally stood in for other presenters. In 1992, he joined Radio Luxembourg as a Presenter and stayed there until the station closed.

It was 1993 when Moyles secured a job at The Pulse of West Yorkshire where he hosted the evening show. He was dismissed in 1994 for comments he made about the station’s previous Programme Controller. His next job came at Signal 1 in Stoke-on-Trent where he presented ‘The Evening Bit’ between 7-10pm.

Moyles’ moved south to the Chiltern Radio Network, initially presenting the evening show and then the late show which was also broadcast on Horizon Radio, Chiltern Radio, Severn Sound and Northants 96.

INTO THE CAPITAL

1996 saw Chris join Capital Radio where he hosted a Friday and Saturday evening show as well as standing-in for other presenters.

Moyles turned down an offer to host the breakfast show on Kiss 100 and turned instead to BBC Radio 1 which he joined in July 1997.

RADIO 1

Chris Moyles

Chris hosted his first show on BBC Radio 1 28th July 1997, setting his alarm clock to present ‘The Early Breakfast Show’.

In May 1998, he was awarded a Silver Sony Award for ‘DJ of the year’. Moyles moved to the Saturday breakfast show and, subsequently, the Saturday morning show from 10am-1pm.

Chris was a regular stand-in for Zoe Ball and Kevin Greening on the breakfast show and then, in October 1998, he was moved to the weekday drivetime show.

Moyles spent five years on the drivetime show and then, on 5th January 2004, he started presenting the breakfast show on a permanent basis and claiming he was the ‘saviour of Radio 1’.  He managed to increase the audience figures for the show and, at the end of his first year on breakfast, readers of The Sun newspaper voted him ‘DJ of the year’. Audiences continued to swell and he won a Gold Sony Radio Award for ‘best entertainment show’ in 2006.

In 2008, the breakfast show was awarded its second Gold Sony Award for the best breakfast show.

TELEVISION

The early years of the decade saw Chris occasionally present Channel 4’s ‘The Big Breakfast’, ‘Big Brother’s Big Mouth’ as well as editions of ‘Top Of The Pops’.

In 2002, Moyles hosted ‘Live With Chris Moyles’ which aired five times a week and for a run of 13 weeks before he was replaced by Christian O’Connell.

In 2009, the ‘Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night’ launched on Channel 4 – a show featuring celebrity contestants

COMIC RELIEF

Chris was one of several people, including Cheryl Cole, Fearne Cotton, Alesha Dixon, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating, Ben Shephard and Denis Van Outen, who climbed Kilimanjaro for Comic Relief in 2009.

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