Artistes of the Month
Also featured: David 'Kid' Jensen, Matthew Amroliwala
Mary
Rhodes
Mary
was the main sports presenter on BBC Ten O'clock News and weekend bulletins
on BBC 1. She also presented sport on Breakfast and was a regularly on
BBC World.
She also hosted The Heaven and Earth Show on BBC1 on Sunday mornings. This was an hour long magazine show broadcast live from Manchester.
Mary combines her work as a presenter with her role as a BBC Sport Correspondent,
covering stories for the 1, 6 and 10 o'clock news and BBC Radio 2, 4 &
5.
She is the voice of "The Challenge" golf programme for Sky,
Channel Five and Eurosport and has covered major sporting events for News
and Sport, including the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, Cricket World Cup,
Australian Open, and Wimbledon.
She has also written travel articles for The Guardian.
If you are looking for a professional conference host, someone to link
an event or deliver a witty after dinner speech; then Mary comes highly
recommended!
"Just wanted to drop you a note to tell you what a great job Mary Rhodes did yesterday... Her professionalism, attention to detail and thoroughly cheerful personality was fabulous and extremely refreshing. She really did make a very valuable contribution to the day and certainly gave the event a big lift.
...once again, thank you to you for recommending someone – in
a very short space of time – who was such a perfect fit for the event."
Mary hosted an event for Orange in Feb 2008
"Thank you for doing such a tremendous job at our awards ceremony.
It was very good to have the evening anchored so professionally."
Mary hosted the East Midlands Tourism Awards ceremony in September
2006
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here for Mary's video showreel
David 'Kid' Jensen
Born
in Canada (1950) and educated there, David is still married to Gudrun
(an Icelander) and has 3 children. They live in Esher, Surrey.
Chairman: Crystal Palace FC Vice-Presidents
Chairman: Croydon Colorectal Cancer Charity
David began broadcasting to the UK via Radio Luxembourg in 1968 after a couple of years in local Canadian radio He acquired the nickname "Kid" because he was the youngest radio presenter in Europe at the time. He left Luxembourg in 1975 for Radio Trent in Nottingham.
In 1976, he went to Radio 1, followed by a move to Capital Radio in 1984. During this time he hosted the Nescafe Network Chart Show for 10 years to the entire UK Independent Radio Network.
In 1998 he accepted an offer to go to London based Heart 106.2, before moving back to Capital in 2002, this time for the Capital Gold Network. He continues to broadcast on Capital Gold, Monday - Saturday from 10AM - 1PM.
He has also hosted a weekly-networked CBC (Canadian Broadcasting) show from London and has presented various syndicated documentaries and specials for hundreds of American stations over the years.
He has won 5 Sony Radio Awards as well as New Spotlight DJ of the year (1972 and 1973), Melody Maker DJ of the year (1983), Variety Magazine for Radio Personality 1980, British Radio and Television Industry award for Best Radio Programme1986, Maple Leaf Award for Canadian Contribution to Broadcasting 2002.
Radio is only half the story. The kid is known to a generation from his time on the small screen. He has presented dozens of networked, syndicated and local TV shows over the years with formats from Children's to News and Current Affairs.
In 1980, he took a 2 year break from the BBC to go to work in Atlanta as a news "anchor" for Ted Turner on the Superstation, TBS as well as presenting documentaries for CNN. This led to an Emmy nomination for the documentary series "Nice People".
TV series in the UK include "Pop Quest" - Yorkshire, "45"- Granada "Razzmatazz"- Tyne Tees, presented the first 3 annual Brit Awards (known as the British Rock and Pop Awards"- BBC 1, "World Wise"- TVS, "Afternoon Club"-TVS, "Central Weekend"-Central, "Relationships"-Anglia, "Top of the Pops"-BBC 1,"The Number One Show"-TVS, "DJ"-TVS, "Nightline"-Tyne Tees, "Champions of the Future"- ITV and Ch. 4, "Lumberjacks"- Ch. 4, and hundreds of contributions to various other shows.
Currently 'fronts' Sky Sports Formula Palmer Audi Championship, occasionally guests on Sky Sports News and voices the most widely syndicated TV show in the world, the weekly: "Gillette World Sport". Added to being the voice of the English language version of Miss World, David is one of the most heard voices in the world!
Having worked for a number of F1 teams over the years, David has done a wide variety of corporate duties encompassing hosting car launches, driver interviews, presenting paddock club events and looking after sponsors.
Closely associated with motor racing having run own team, "Kid Jensen Racing"- Formula 3000 and Formula Opel. He has appeared on dozens of motor racing programmes on ITV, Sky Sports and Ch. 4 and his son Viktor is a highly rated driver, and one to keep an eye out for.
He has hosted general award ceremonies including Travel, Advertising and Broadcast Awards as well as individual companies' internal or general industry awards, eg. EMAP, New Scotland Yard Bravery Awards, Formula Renault Championship etc.
This is in addition to parties, discos and discussions on behalf of such diverse businesses as Debenhams, NABS, The Radio Academy, the Labour Party, Cedar Software, Palmer Sport, Crystal Holidays, Nescafe, Lola, Caterham Cars, Icelandair, Faberge, csma, Celtic FC, St. Mirren FC, Crystal Palace FC, Laurent Perrier and Budweiser. The latter two were sponsors of Kid Jensen Racing.
He has also addressed the Oxford Union and presented school awards and
prizes at various institutions around the UK.
Matthew Amroliwala
Matthew
presents the news with Jane Hill from 1600 to 1900 on Monday to Friday
on BBC News 24
He joined BBC News 24 in 1997 as a presenter of the evening programmes, and from the beginning of 2001 he has presented the late afternoon news programme.
He reported extensively from Northern Ireland during the time of the Shankill bombing, Greysteel and the first IRA ceasefire.
He also reported from Bosnia on the fall of Srebrenica and travelled throughout the Balkans during that conflict.
Matthew spent six months as the BBC's New York correspondent covering Waco, the mid-term elections, and a variety of stories out of America.
As political correspondent at Westminster in the run-up to the 1997 election,
Matthew was the BBC's correspondent travelling with the Liberal Democrats
throughout the six week campaign.
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