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Simon Bates
Born
Simon Philip Bates
(1946-12-17) 17 December 1946 (age 77)
Birmingham, England
Nationality
British
Occupation(s)
DJ TV presenter
Years active
1971–present
Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946)[1][2] is an English disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the station's weekday mid-morning show for most of this period. He later became a regular presenter on Classic FM. He hosted the breakfast show on Smooth Radio from January 2011 until March 2014, and took on the same role at BBC Radio Devon from January 2015[3] until January 2017.[4]
He was the first presenter of BBC Two's Food and Drink programme in 1982.
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Simon Philip Bates (born 17 December 1946) is an English disc jockey and radio presenter. Between 1976 and 1993 he worked at BBC Radio 1, presenting the...
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Roy Bates. Bates seized Roughs Tower from a group of pirate radio broadcasters in 1967 with the intention of setting up his own station there. Bates and...
1988) Peter Powell (1977–1988) Mike Read (1978–1989, plus 30 July 2006) SimonBates (1979–1988) 15 December 1977 – Elton John was guest presenter 11 October...
union disputes. 26 August – SimonBates steps down from Sunday Top 40 hosting. 2 September – Tony Blackburn replaces SimonBates as host of the Sunday Top...
station in 2010, SimonBates left Classic FM after 13 years to join Smooth Radio as its new weekday breakfast presenter from January 2011. Bates revived The...
was reduced to just the Top 20 for one hour at 18:00. In April 1978, SimonBates took over as presenter. From May 1978, Radio One started promoting the...
(9:00–13:00) from January 2011, taking over from the show's previous host SimonBates. This quickly became Classic FM's most listened-to show, with over 3...
Breakfast – Episodes by date, August 2012 BBC 5Live, 18 August 2012 SimonBates parts company with Smooth Radio John Plunkett, The Guardian, 24 February...
The Break (1963) as Greg Parker Dr. Syn Alias the Scarecrow (1963) as SimonBates There's a Girl in My Soup (1970) as Andrew Hunter Sunday Bloody Sunday...
phased launch will begin on 4 October. 17 August – It is announced that SimonBates to join Smooth Radio as its new national breakfast presenter from 4 January...
became popular in the UK after it was played by broadcaster SimonBates on his SimonBates at Breakfast show on Smooth Radio as part of the Our Tune strand...
The characters reference such DJs as Tony Blackburn, Dave Lee Travis, SimonBates, Alan Freeman, Mike Read, Peter Powell, Noel Edmonds and Jimmy Savile...
UK's Smooth Radio broadcast its national breakfast show, presented by SimonBates, from the BFBS studios in Camp Bastion. On 8 April 2012, Easter Sunday...
Golden Hour". The feature was to prove durable, being carried on by SimonBates, Simon Mayo, and Chris Moyles when they subsequently took over that time...
the Sunday lunchtime show. SimonBates moves from breakfast to mid-mornings. 2011 January – John Suchet replaces SimonBates as host of the station's weekday...
including Pat Sharp, Mark Goodier and SimonBates presenting, appearing either as a voice-over or on-screen. Bates has continued to present his old radio...
became popular in the UK after it was played by broadcaster SimonBates on his SimonBates at Breakfast show on Smooth Radio as part of the Our Tune strand...
2006. Retrieved 21 December 2021. Plunkett, John (24 February 2014). "SimonBates parts company with Smooth Radio". The Guardian. "Myleene – a Klass act"...
Sexism, was published in 2014. Bates' parents are Diane Elizabeth Bates, a French language teacher, and Adrian Keith Bates, a physician. She grew up in...
with SimonBates while the two were working at Smooth Radio, then described Bates as being "as focused as a cunt". Binns had been commenting on Bates forthcoming...
was confirmed that Bates had become the sole owner. In November 2012, Bates sold his holdings in Leeds United to GFH Capital. Bates was born in Ealing...
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