Phil Gayle (born April 6, 1964 in Birmingham, England) is a newsreader, currently working as a freelance journalist. Events 46 BC - Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato in the Battle of Thapsus Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Former credits include the The Big Breakfast and The ITV News Channel. This article is about the British television show For the Canadian television show of the same name see The Big Breakfast (Canada. The ITV News Channel was a 24 hour Television News channel in the United Kingdom which broadcast from 2000 to 2005.
Phil Gayle's other TV credits include First Edition, Crimewatch Daily, Seven Days and That's Esther; as well as several LWT current affairs programmes including The Week and The London Programme. Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born) is an English Journalist and Television presenter who is best known for her long stint in That's
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Radio
Before getting into TV, Phil Gayle was a DJ on various local radio stations. A disc jockey (also known as DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience Between 1986 and 1988, Phil worked at BRMB Radio, Birmingham. Music DJ presenting various overnight, late night and early morning shows.
In 1988, he moved on to Signal Radio, Stoke. Signal One is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting from studios in Shelton, Stoke-on-Trent to Staffordshire and Cheshire Phil presented a live weekday three-hour night time phone-in five nights per week. He also co-presented the Saturday afternoon sports programme which also included live interviews and music.
1995 saw Phil move to Rock FM, as a Preston Music DJ. 974 Rock FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting to North West England. He presented the Sunday evening, post Network Chart show alongside two weekend overnight shows.
Between 1995 – 1996 he presented a live current affairs and lifestyle phone-in on BBC Radio Newcastle. Here Phil broke several stories that were subsequently picked up by national press. The shows would typically feature one-on-one interviews, panel discussions, on-the-road reports and live audience debates.
Since then, Phil has done a variety of radio work in a one-off form or providing relief for existing presenters. Between 2000 and 2001 Phil was a relief presenter for various live two and three hour shows on LBC. LBC Radio (originally the London Broadcasting Company) operates two London-based radio stations with news and talk formats In 2002 he would return as a relief presenter for Steve Allan on his live mid morning daily show as well as the LBC breakfast show.
Television
In 1997, Phil joined Channel 4. Channel 4 is a public-service Television and Radio broadcaster in the United Kingdom centred around a television channel of the same name which began Here he was employed as a newsreader on their light-entertainment morning show The Big Breakfast, a long-running early morning light entertainment show that enjoyed huge success for most of its run, suffering only when its most popular presenters left in 2001. This article is about the British television show For the Canadian television show of the same name see The Big Breakfast (Canada. This remains the role Gayle is arguably most famous for today. Gayle took over the role from Peter Smith and would fill this role until 2000 when he was succeeded by Jasmine Lowson, but would return for the show for its final broadcast in 2002. Jasmine Lowson is a British news presenter A trained actress she has appeared on Channel 4's The Big Breakfast, BBC's Liquid He would also go on to present other programmes for Channel 4 such as First Edition (1997-2002), a 30 minute current affairs programme aimed at school age children and the Channel 4 News, where he would act as the second presenter on the live, daily hour long news programme. Channel 4 News is the news division of British TV broadcaster Channel 4.
In 1998 he co-presented original broadcast pilot of the live, prime-time show Find A Fortune on ITV, surprising people with inheritances they did not know about, providing situation updates throughout the show and presenting recorded reports in the field. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent
2000 saw Phil begin work for the BBC where he would present several programmes. Between 2000 and 2001, Phil Co-presented Crimewatch Daily on BBC1. This was a daily live morning show on crime which included live studio and telephone interviews. In the same year he would also present a segment on walking holidays in the Lake District on the BBC One programme Holiday On A Shoestring.
In 2001, Gayle moved to rival broadcaster ITV and had a major role in the show That's Esther. Esther Louise Rantzen CBE (born) is an English Journalist and Television presenter who is best known for her long stint in That's Here he would be the on-the-road reporter for the half-hour consumer affairs and human-interest series. He would also act as the main reporter on anti-scalding campaign and interviews with ‘characters’ overcoming the odds during the show's run between 2001 and 2002.
Since then, Gayle has appeared in numerous LWT news-based programmes. Between 2002 - 2005 he was the newsreader and reporter on the regional London news programmes London Today & London Tonight. Phil was also the presenter of monthly current affairs documentary series The London Programme, which dealt with issues affecting London and the Southeast The third LWT production Gayle would front was The Week, a weekly current affairs show for London and the Southeast.
Between 2002-2005, Phil worked as a news reader on the now defunct digital news station ITV News Channel. The ITV News Channel was a 24 hour Television News channel in the United Kingdom which broadcast from 2000 to 2005.
Phil currently presents the ITV Morning News and occasionally reads the news for ITV London on London Today & London Tonight
Recent Media Work
Between 2005-2006, Gayle worked and travelled in Australia. The ITV Morning News is the early morning news bulletin on the British television network ITV, broadcasting every morning of the week at 5 London Tonight is the flagship news programme broadcast to the Carlton / LWT region of the ITV Network
Phil is the brother of lad lit writer Mike Gayle and took part in the 2007 series of ITV's Dancing on Ice where he finished 10th, losing to Ulrika Jonsson in the week two 'skate off'. Mike Gayle is a British Author and Freelance Journalist contributing to a variety of magazines including FHM and Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Dancing on Ice is a British Television show, in which celebrities and their professional partners dance on ice in front of a panel of judges Eva Ulrika Jonsson (born 16 August 1967 is a Swedish -born British Television presenter.
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