Tommy Boyd

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This article is about the radio and television presenter. For the footballer, see Tom Boyd


Timothy Leslie Fountain Boyd (born December 15, 1952), better known as Tommy Boyd, is a radio presenter and former children's television presenter.

He grew up in Ashford in Surrey, and attended the University of Sussex. From 1977 to 1980, he was co-presenter of the ITV children's magazine programme Magpie, but he is perhaps better known for having presented the TV-am show Wide Awake Club throughout the 1980s. Between 1982 and 1984 he also presented Central Television's flagship Saturday morning kids TV show The Saturday Show alongside Isla St Clair and followed this with The Saturday Starship in 1985 (co presented by Bonnie Langford). From 1991–2 he spent a period as anchorman for ITV's children's strand, Children's ITV.

He was a radio presenter on the British AM station Talk Radio UK (later Talk Radio) from its inception in February 1995 until November 1998, when he lost his job in a reshuffle at the station when it was taken over by a consortium led by former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie. He subsequently worked for BBC Radio Five Live, before being sacked for his argumentative and controversial style of broadcasting, and the local station LBC in London, leaving in 1999. In January 2000, Talk Radio was rebranded as talkSPORT, but with part of its schedules being retained for talk and non-sport phone in. After covering for absent presenters on several occasions, Boyd took up a permanent position in April 2000.

In May 2000, he began an experiment on his Sunday night slot whereby calls would go straight to air unscreened. This later evolved into the Human Zoo with his co-presenter and engineer, Asher Gould. Boyd's career at talkSPORT ended in March 2002, when he was dismissed over an outburst by a caller which he failed to 'dump' from broadcast (see The Human Zoo article for details of the incident). Tommy Boyd's radio stance and psychology into his form of radio broadcasting could perhaps be compared to that of Howard Stern.

In Early 2004, Boyd joined BBC Southern Counties Radio, where he presented a Saturday Night slot from 9pm-1am & since April 2006 presents daily on a new afternoon slot from 1pm to 4pm Monday to Friday with co-presenter Allison Ferns on the same station.

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