Russ Williams

Russ Williams trained at London's National Broadcasting School in Programming and Journalism, which led to a presenting job at Radio Mercury in Surrey, presenting a chart show every Sunday from 3-5pm. He then landed a journalist job at Brighton's Southern Sound, before moving to Finland where he presented his own show on Helsinki's Radio 1.

Williams returned to the UK and joined Newcastle's Metro Radio. In 1990, he joined London's Capital Radio to present the Weekend Breakfast Show, which remained his domain for three years. He often stood in as holiday relief for Chris Tarrant, and he also hosted "The Rebel Yell Rock Machine", which was syndicated across the nation's airwaves every week.

Williams has been at Absolute Radio since it went on air in 1993. His first role was the Breakfast show, alongside Jonathan Coleman. In October 1997, due to Chris Evans' arrival at the station, the duo went on to present the Drivetime show & in early 1998, Williams took on the mid-morning show on his own, where he remains to this day. Also in 1998, he was the announcer on ITV's saturday night show Don't Try This at Home. Then in 2001, he was the event commentator on the channel 5 sports which lasted just one series and was called under pressure. On January 2nd 2006, his show was extended giving him 4 hours of air (10am-2pm) every week-day. Absolute Radio reverted back to its old time slots on July 23rd 2007, and his show currently runs between 10am and 1pm every weekday. In addition to this, he can also be heard on sister station Absolute Radio Classic Rock, presenting the Afternoon slot.

In Russ's daytime show on Absolute radio, the first hour between 10am and 11am is now known as "The 80's hour". In this hour, every day of the week, Russ plays the best music from the 1980's.

Russ now also presents the Rock and roll football show every Saturday afternoon between 3pm and 6pm on Absolute radio.

Russ is also a regular stand-in presenter on Talksport's Kick-Off and Final Whistle shows.

During ITV's brief acquisition and broadcasting of Premier League football coverage in 2000-01, Russ was part of the team, commentating on edited match and goal highlights.

External links

* [http://www.absoluteradio.co.uk/djs_shows/djs/williams.html Russ' profile at AbsoluteRadio.co.uk]