Graeme Smith (Radio DJ and TV Presenter)

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image_size = 150px
name = Graeme Smith
birth_date = birth date and age|1983|05|10
birth_place = Liverpool, England
employers = Current TV, XFM, Galaxy Radio
occupation = Broadcaster

Graeme Smith is a TV and radio presenter in the UK. He is a music broadcaster on UK national radio station Absolute Radio currently presenting weekend shows and standing in for other DJ's. He is also a mainstay on Current TV in the UK as the anchor of their Google Current franchise and the anchor for much of their prime time programming.

Career history

His biography on the Absolute Radio website says he began presenting radio shows at the age of 14 on hospital radio in Liverpool. He started his professional broadcasting career aged 16 whilst still at school in his home city of Liverpool on local radio station Juice FM. He later moved to the Galaxy Network of youth focussed dance and urban music stations to present the networked weekend breakfast show. Aged 20 he was signed to present the drivetime show at their flagship Galaxy Yorkshire based in Leeds broadcasting to Yorkshire.

Current television

In March 2007 he started work on Al Gore owned Current TV, the channel had already been on air in the US since 2005.

The channel launched in the UK amidst a blaze of media publicity surrounding its unique user generated content proposition and Graeme was the first person to appear on the channel as the presenter of Google Current which is filmed at their London studios. He also presents special more traditionally scheduled programmes for the channel.

Galaxy

From 2002 until 2006 Graeme worked for the Galaxy Network of youth focussed stations. He presented regular weekly networked shows whilst there including weekend breakfast and retro dance music show Galaxy Anthems. But it is for his 3 years on drivetime at their flagship Galaxy Yorkshire that he is best remembered. During that time he also presented the breakfast show for several weeks per year covering for Simon Hirst.

XFM

Graeme arrived at XFM London in March 2007 and was swiftly put onto weekday afternoons until the station took the controversial decision to axe DJ's across its daytime output and replace them with an experimental format known as "XU". This experiment lasted about a year during which time the station suffered heavy losses in RAJAR audience figures. He was moved to weekend afternoons and left the station in January 2008 to move to Virgin Radio.

Virgin Radio

In February 2008 he moved to UK national radio station Virgin Radio taking over the Sunday early morning show and covering other shows across their schedule including late nights and their early evening show - The Most Wanted. He hosted the summer Saturday afternoon show in place of their regular football show in 2008 and also covered for JK and Joel on the weekend mid morning slot.

Other work

As well as his presenting work he has also appeared as a writer in various magazines including the Leeds Guide, Pink Paper and AXM and was a poster boy in best selling UK teen magazine "More" in 2003.

References

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/dec/24/gcapmedia.commercialradio] Axed Capital DJ makes switch to XFM - The Guardian
* [http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article1805791.ece] Indie radio station network hangs the DJ
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/mar/13/digitalmedia.broadcasting] Al Gore brings DIY television revolution to Britain - Guardian
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6442567.stm] The TV channel without programmes - BBC News
* [http://www.virginradio.co.uk/djs_shows/shows/summer_weekend/index.html] Virgin Radio show homepage
* [http://www.virginradio.co.uk/djs_shows/djs/smith.html] Virgin Radio DJ Biography

External links

* [http://www.vivienneclore.com/articles/Graeme_110540_79.html] Management company website
* [http://www.myspace.com/djgraemesmith] MySpace Page
* [http://www.current.com/google] Current TV Google Current website
* [http://www.virginradio.co.uk] Virgin Radio UK website
* [http://www.virginradio.co.uk/djs_shows/djs/smith.html] DJ biography page