Tony Currie (broadcaster)
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Tony Currie (born 1951) is a Scottish broadcaster who worked as a continuity announcer for BBC Scotland.
He began working at KPFK Radio in Los Angeles in 1972 before joining Scotland's first independent local radio station, Radio Clyde as its first voice on the air.[1] In April 1976, he joined Scottish Television 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.
After leaving STV in January 1987, he became Controller of Programmes for the Cable Authority and, latterly, cable programming controller for the Independent Television Commission. After a spell as chief executive of AsiaVision, he set up Irish satellite television station Tara Television 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,[2] The Radio Times Story,[3] and Not Quite Altogether Now!, 2009 ) (the story of the launch and early days of radio Clyde).[4]
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.[5]
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).[6]
In 2024, Currie acquired the company name and trademark of Pye Records, and relaunched the label, now based on the Scottish Isle of Lismore, with vinyl records pressed at Sea Bass Vinyl's wind-powered pressing plant in Tranent.[7] The relaunched label's first release was Race the Sun by the Tony Currie Orchestra, conducted by Gavin Sutherland (principal guest conductor for the English National Ballet), and Callum Au. Race the Sun was conceived to pay tribute to the pop orchestras of the original Pye Records.[8]
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References
- ↑ McIvor, Jamie (31 December 2023). "Radio Clyde: Marking 50 years of Glasgow voices on the radio" – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ Currie, Tony (2004). A Concise History of British Television 1930-2000. Kelly Publications. ISBN 978-1-903053-17-1.
- ↑ Currie, Tony (2001). The Radio Times Story. Kelly. ISBN 978-1-903053-09-6.
- ↑ Currie, Tony (2009). Not Quite Altogether Now!: The Pioneering Days of Radio Clyde. Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 978-1-906476-08-3.
- ↑ "My Big Break". All Media Scotland. 6 June 2013. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
- ↑ "Insults fly overthe airwaves". 17 February 1995.
- ↑ "Kinks' classic record label revived after 40 years - and on vinyl". Your Local Guardian. 11 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
- ↑ "Iconic record label relaunches 40 years later on tiny Scottish island". The National. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
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