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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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(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...
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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...
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Awards for Best Young Performer. Highmore starred as Norman Bates in the drama-thriller series Bates Motel (2013–2017), for which he was nominated three times...
presenters such as Chris Ashley, John Radford, Giles Dilnot, Bill Buckley and SimonBates, who presented the Sunday morning show. Further changes followed, including...
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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...
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