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Wes Butters (born Wesley Lee-Butters in Salford, Greater Manchester, 4 May 1979), is an English radio broadcaster, formerly of BBC Radio 1, and now presenting on Galaxy Manchester. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Salford is a city in Greater Manchester in the north-west of England. ...
is the 124th day of the year (125th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ...
Galaxy is a local radio station owned by the Chrysalis Group as part of its Galaxy Network specialising in dance music and RnB. It is based in Manchester, and broadcasts from studios in the Triangle shopping centre, formerly the Corn Exchange. ...
Early life
Butters attended Buile Hill High School in Salford, and studied at the University of Salford between 1995 and 1997 where he gained an National Diploma in Design & Media Communications, followed by a BA (Hons) Television and Radio between 1997 and 1999. For other uses, see Salford (disambiguation). ...
The University of Salford is a large University situated in the city of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. ...
Radio career Upon joining AA Roadwatch he shortened his name to Wes Butters and after a year's reading traffic and travel bulletins on local North West radio stations and stints on The Wave (Blackpool), Wish FM (Wigan) and Century 105, he was offered the evening show on Century 106 in Nottingham. He left in 2000 to host the mid-morning show and become Head of Music for Galaxy 105-106 in Newcastle.
Radio 1 In February 2003, after massive speculation, he took over the Official UK Top 40 show on BBC Radio 1, and it was renamed The Official Chart Show with Wes. It changed its format to include more coverage of the album charts and ceased playing all the Top 40 singles to address the chart relevancy debate. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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BBC Radio 1 (commonly referred to as just Radio 1) is a British national radio station operated by the BBC, specialising in popular music and speech and is aimed primarily at the 14-29[1] age group. ...
He regularly stood in for Scott Mills - first on early breakfast, then on drive-time. He also deputised for Chris Moyles on the prestigious Radio 1 breakfast show on Bank and Christmas Holidays. Scott Robert Mills, born in Southampton, Hampshire in 1974, is an English radio DJ. Mills currently presents the drive time show on BBC Radio 1, a national United Kingdom station with over 10 million listeners,[2] between 4pm and 7pm every weekday, which is called The Scott Mills Show. ...
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Working closely with Top of the Pops he interviewed hundreds of popstars including Kylie Minogue, Destiny's Child, George Michael and The Black Eyed Peas. Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...
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In November 2004 it was revealed that Butters would leave Radio 1 the following February and the chart would under go more massive changes to its format. Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Butters was regularly heard on the BBC World Service too. He sporadically presented Top of the Pops, Wright Round the World (sitting in for Steve Wright) and was used as their voice for Live 8. The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world. ...
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After Radio 1 Soon after his final chart rundown on January 30th 2005 the press announced the launch of podshows.com, a joint venture by Butters and fellow broadcaster Daryl Denham. It was the world's first professional pod-casting company using household names such as Tony Blackburn, Paul Gambaccini, Gary Davies and Terry Christian to record tailor-made programmes for MP3 players. Daryl Denham is a British radio DJ. // Early career His early broadcasting career was at BBC Radio Kent, Invicta FM, (where he once fell asleep during a show), SGR FM in Essex and Chiltern FM in Dunstable. ...
Tony Blackburn (born 29 January 1943 in Guildford, Surrey) is an award winning English disc jockey, who broadcast on the pirate stations Radio Caroline and Radio London in the 1960s and was the first presenter to appear on BBC Radio 1 in 1967. ...
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This coincided with the release of his Crazy Frog record (that he'd premiered on an early breakfast show the previous November). Under the guise of Pondlife the record went in at Number 11 and remained in the UK Top 40 for 5 weeks. Crazy Frog is an animated character used in the marketing of a ring tone based on The Annoying Thing, a computer animation created by Erik Wernquist. ...
Wes@Breakfast In October 2005 it was revealed that Butters had agreed a deal with Galaxy and returned to the airwaves at Galaxy Manchester, immediately boosting figures to their highest ever level, winning a Silver Sony award for Best Breakfast Show and an Arqiva nomination for Best UK Presenter in 2006. Galaxy is a local radio station owned by the Chrysalis Group as part of its Galaxy Network specialising in dance music and RnB. It is based in Manchester, and broadcasts from studios in the Triangle shopping centre, formerly the Corn Exchange. ...
In May 2007 he was voted North West England Presenter of the Year in X-Trax magazine (the radio industry mag).
It was announced in June 2007 that Wes had "had enough of early starts" and that he wanted more time to focus on his other projects. Keen to keep him on the station he agreed with Galaxy to do a short afternoon show, weekdays 1-4pm.
Television and writing Wes has appeared on many TV programmes such as Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Top of the Pops, Record of the Year, Liquid News, Celebrity Fame Academy, BBC1 news, and numerous talking-heads and children's shows. Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme, presented by Simon Amstell and produced by talkbackTHAMES for the BBC. It is usually aired on BBC Two. ...
Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, was a long-running British music chart television programme, made and broadcast by the BBC. It was originally shown each week, mostly on BBC One, from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. ...
The Liquid News ident Christopher Price presenting a Liquid News programme Liquid News was the daily round up of entertainment news for BBC Three (formerly BBC Choice) running from May 30, 2000 to April 1, 2004. ...
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For voice-overs he did the Top of the Pops rundown, An Audience with Take That, An Audience with Lionel Ritchie, Asda and The Brit Awards. The Brit Awards are annual United Kingdom pop music awards, considered to be on a par with the Grammys in the United States. ...
He's written for The Guardian newspaper. The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ...
He's writing a book about Carry On star Kenneth Williams and is producing a documentary for BBC Radio 4, both due out in 2008. This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
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BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station, specialising in popular music aimed at a young audience (children, teenagers and young adults). ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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