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Richard Skinner (born 26 December 1951) [1] [2] is a British radio and television presenter.. He was the opening announcer and TV anchor at the Live Aid concert in 1985, and is the only presenter to have fronted all three of the BBC's leading pop music programmes, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Top of the Pops on television and the Radio One Top 40 show.
Live Aid was a two-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
WHIO-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS. It has been owned by Cox Media Group since its inception, making it one of two stations that have been built and signed on by Cox (alongside company flagship WSB-TV in Atlanta ).
Following the departure of Nightingale in 1982, Mark Ellen, David Hepworth and Richard Skinner also took turns as presenters. In 1983 the programme was moved to a live mid-evening slot. The title was abridged to Whistle Test and the title credits and music were changed. Andy Kershaw joined the series as a presenter in 1984. [10]
In the 1980s he presented the BBC television music series The Old Grey Whistle Test [3] and was one of the presenters covering the 1985 Live Aid concert from Wembley Stadium. [4] On both of these he worked with long-term friend Mark Ellen. Hepworth famously provoked Bob Geldof to repeatedly use the word "fuck" live on air. [5]
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The final hour of WAVI's talk programming on February 28, 1985, was characterized by Dayton Daily News columnist Dale Huffman as "a wake on the airwaves". [21] Simultaneously, Stoner moved WDAO to the AM frequency—naming the first Black station manager in its 21-year history, Jim Johnson—and relaunched the FM as WWSN "Sunny 107.7" with an ...
Nielsen Media Research ranked the 11-county Dayton television market #65 in the United States. [1] Among the stations it includes are: 2 WDTN Dayton ; 7 WHIO-TV Dayton ; 16 WPTD Dayton ; 22 WKEF, Dayton (ABC/Fox) 26 WBDT Springfield ; 43 WKOI-TV Richmond, IN (Ion Television)* 45 WRGT-TV Dayton (MyNetworkTV)