Peter Poulton

Infobox Person
name = Peter Poulton aka
Bam Bam & Peter Jarrod


birth_date = birth date and age|1970|1|2
known_for = Bam Bam Breakfast on Kiss 100, The Bam Bam Show (Podcast), Evenings on Capital Radio
occupation = Radio Presenter
website =

Peter Poulton, aka Bam Bam and Peter Jarrod, (born January 2, 1970) is a British radio personality. He lives in North London with his partner Emma and their two children.

He began his radio career at the age of 16 when he joined Radio City in Liverpool, England, where he worked as a tech.op. His first full time presenters role was with Marcher Sound in Wrexham, North Wales. In 1993 he joined the now defunct Sunset Radio in Manchester, UK as a presenter and commercial producer. By 1994 he had moved to Atlantic 252 where he presented the mid-morning show. In 1995 he moved to Invicta FM in Kent, there he presented the evening show. Bam Bam left Invicta and moved to Kiss 105 in Yorkshire where he launched the station as Breakfast Show presenter. He stayed with Kiss 105 for its entire existence, moving across the Pennines to its newly branded sister station Galaxy 102, following the sale of both stations to the Chrysalis group in 1997. In March 1998 Peter moved to Virgin Radio where he stayed until September of the same year. In January 1999 he went on to present the Bam Bam Breakfast on London's Kiss 100 with his co-host Rob Hayes, aka Streetboy. He hosted the show for seven years. The show won multiple Sony Radio Academy Awards, along with New York Festival and CRCA industry awards.

Poulton was sacked in April 2006 whilst on annual leave, shortly before the station received a record fine of £175,000 from the industry regulator, Ofcom, after a series of breaches of the broadcasting code during his show. BamBam was replaced by Robin Banks, who was also subsequently sacked.

In March 2007 Bam Bam joined London's Capital 95.8 and presented the station's evening show Monday to Friday with co-hosts Streetboy and Kat Shoob. On 6 December 2007, [http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2788.2 Radio Today] announced that Bam Bam had been sacked from Capital.

Between September 2006 and November 2007, Bam and Streetboy worked together with Frizzle and Slick (and later Kat and Slim) on an internet exclusive radio show from THESHOW.com , Originally called the Bam Bam Daily which later became the Bam Bam Show, which could be downloaded everyday as a mini show for your MP3 Player. The Show include many features which were unbroadcastable on normal radio such as "The Bam Bam Answer phone", "Kat Shoob World News" and various pranks played by Streetboy (including a number of meetings with the Hari Krishna's). The show also had a game called "Right Now..I'm..." where Kat, Bam and Street would have to guess what callers who had left messages were doing at that precise point. The show included regular input from James Max (The Apprentice and LBC) and Council Dweller Dave.

On March 14 2008, renamed "Bam" and with a different show format, he was found broadcasting live on BBC London 94.9 standing in for Danny Baker.

On August 3 2008, renamed "Peter Jarrod" he returned to Virgin Radio to cover for Iain Lee and Geoff Lloyd. The show used the same music bed as Peter's former Capital show.

External links

* [http://www.radiotoday.co.uk/news.php?extend.2788.2 Radio Today announces Bam Bam's departure from Capital]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5098936.stm Kiss FM handed record radio fine]
* [http://www.ofcom.org.uk/accessibility/rtfs/statements/archive06/kiss.rtf Ofcom Report re Kiss Fine]