Jeff Cooper (broadcaster)

Jeff Cooper (born 5 April 1952 in Bournemouth, UK) is a British radio presenter and producer. He also manages onLine New music & rock station, radio2XS.

Cooper joined the radio industry in 1972, working originaly as a studio engineer for the Dutch offshore pirate radio station Radio Veronica.

Moving to the BBC, Cooper was a radio presenter and newsreader for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2, where his duties included reading the news, the Shipping Forecast and presenting 'Music Through Midnight' and 'The Early Show'. In the 1980s, he was a producer/presenter for BBC Radio Manchester and Drive-time news broadcaster for BBC WM in Birmingham. During the mid-80s, he set-up LBC Music Radio, which broadcast across the Italian border into Lugano, Switzerland, where there was no private or commercial radio at the time. The station's transmitter and frequency were sold to a Milanese station in the early 1990s.

His career has also included presentation positions at a number of UK Independent Local Radio stations, including Radio Clyde in Glasgow, 96 Trent FM in Nottingham, Piccadilly Radio in Manchester, Radio City in Liverpool, 97.4 Rock FM in Lancashire, and Hallam FM (where his 'XS' show was nominated for a UK Sony Radio Award in 1998) in Sheffield. He was also a DJ on the networked satellite service "The Superstation" in the early 1990s, and has spent time as Programme Controller of Peak FM in Chesterfield and Silk FM in Macclesfield.

He is a radio presentation tutor at the Baltic Media Centre in Bornholm, Denmark, The Journalist Institute in St Petersburg in Russia, Eesti Raadio in Tallinn, Estonia and M1 Radio in Vilnius, Lithuania. During 2007, he ran radio seminars for Host Media Centre in Leeds and the Mid-Cheshire College and since 2007, has been contributing to the Music Technology course at Bolton University, lecturing on radio playout systems and online media distribution.

Cooper has also presented shows for Smooth Radio in Nottingham until June 2008 when the station moved to networked shows (broadcast from London and Gateshead).

External links

* [http://www.radio2XS.com radio2XS]
* [http://www.jeffcooper.co.uk Jeff Cooper]
* [http://www.midchesh.ac.uk Mid-Cheshire College]
* [http://www.hostleeds.com Host Media Centre, Leeds]
* [http://www.bolton.ac.uk Bolton University]
* [http://www.meediakeskus.ee/CooperCV.htm Estonian Media Centre]