Richard Skinner

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Skinner
Occupation	Presenter
Date Of Birth	Dec 26, 1951(1951-12-26)
Age	73
Birthplace	Litchfield
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Richard Skinner Biography

Richard Skinner is one of the most popular and richest Presenter who was born on December 26, 1951 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States. Richard Skinner, born 26 December 1951 in Portsmouth (Hampshire), is a British broadcaster.

Skinner was one of the first presenters of Newsbeat on BBC Radio 1 in 1973. This role he held until 1980 when he was a regular radio 1 presenter of music programs. He took over the Monday-Thursday night show from Mike Read in December. Skinner also continued to work as a studio producer for Newsbeat and as an in-vision continuity reporter for Thames Television. Skinner claims that he reported the news about John Lennon’s death to Paul McCartney’s house by telephone in the early hours on December 9, 1980.

Instead of publicising new Boomtown Rats release as planned, Bob Geldof announced the creation of the Band Aid project on Skinner’s Radio 1 show in 1984.

On 30 September 1984, 17 years to the day after Radio 1 began, Skinner took over the Sunday afternoon Top 40 show, also broadcast on FM, on the same day that David Jensen, who had just left Radio 1, started presenting The Network Chart Show on commercial radio in competition.

He was a BBC television presenter of Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whisle Test, as well as playing two roles in the 1980s’ Band Aid and Live Aid phenomena.

Richard Skinner Net Worth

Richard Skinner is one of the richest Presenter from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Skinner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Skinner was born in Portsmouth, where he attended Portsmouth Grammar School. Skinner was the founder of Portsmouth Hospital Broadcasting. It first went on- air in April 1970. He studied newspaper journalism at Highbury Technical College. He began his newspaper journalism career at The News. After that, he moved to Kent’s Erith Observer newspaper and briefly appeared on BBC Radio Medway. In October 1971, he joined BBC Radio Solent as a presenter of music programmes, including Beat ‘n Track and newsreader.

Skinner was married to Deborah. They have two sons, Christopher (born 1977) & Jamie (born 1996).

In late 1981, Skinner became presenter of Radio 1’s Rock On magazine show on Saturday afternoons and Roundtable on Friday evenings, on which he and guests would review the week’s new releases. He continued with the programme until late 1985. In addition to Roundtable, from 1983 Skinner presented the Saturday Live show from 4 to 6:30 pm alongside Andy Batten-Foster.

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From the turn of the 1990s, while still at Radio 1, Skinner also presented a daily show on BBC GLR, an eclectic mix of music, recorded and live, and live interviews from pop to politics. This continued until the end of December 1992.

Facts & Trivia

Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Presenter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard Skinner celebrates birthday on December 26 of every year.

On 1 January 1993, he joined the launch team at Virgin Radio, working as joint programme director, head of music and mid-morning presenter. On launch day 30 April 1993, he hosted the station’s first programme. His weekday morning show ran from then until the autumn of 1996.