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BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey has hired in some well-known cover presenters for the next few weeks, including David Kid Jensen.
The Kid, most recently host of Smooth Radio’s afternoon drive show, will cover the Saturday Mid-Morning Show on 19th and 26th April.
David started his career at Radio Luxembourg, before moving to BBC Radio 1. He then went on to present at stations including Capital and Heart.
In addition, David Hamilton will cover the Sunday Request Show from Midday-3pm on Sunday 6th April.
Finally, Jeni Barnett will present the Mid-Morning Show for three weeks from Monday 31st March, whilst regular host Danny Pike covers BBC Sussex Breakfast.
Commenting on the news, Jeni said: “I couldn’t be happier! Brighton has the sea, a perfect French coffee shop next to the studio, a great team, and superior listeners I’m told. I can’t wait to get going”.
In recent years, Jeni presented the Afternoon Show on LBC, before moving to BBC London.
Commenting on the news, Assistant Editor Mark Carter told RadioToday.co.uk: “I’m delighted to welcome such high profile presenters to BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey. They are all local, so really know the area that they are broadcasting to and I’m sure they’ll prove a hit with listeners old and new”
BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey has hired in some well-known cover presenters for the next few weeks, including David Kid Jensen.
The Kid, most recently host of Smooth Radio’s afternoon drive show, will cover the Saturday Mid-Morning Show on 19th and 26th April.
David started his career at Radio Luxembourg, before moving to BBC Radio 1. He then went on to present at stations including Capital and Heart.
In addition, David Hamilton will cover the Sunday Request Show from Midday-3pm on Sunday 6th April.
Finally, Jeni Barnett will present the Mid-Morning Show for three weeks from Monday 31st March, whilst regular host Danny Pike covers BBC Sussex Breakfast.
Commenting on the news, Jeni said: “I couldn’t be happier! Brighton has the sea, a perfect French coffee shop next to the studio, a great team, and superior listeners I’m told. I can’t wait to get going”.
In recent years, Jeni presented the Afternoon Show on LBC, before moving to BBC London.
Commenting on the news, Assistant Editor Mark Carter told RadioToday.co.uk: “I’m delighted to welcome such high profile presenters to BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey. They are all local, so really know the area that they are broadcasting to and I’m sure they’ll prove a hit with listeners old and new”
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I hope it better than the half hour I listened the other week. There was a handover between Graham Dean and David Hamilton. It was bloody awful, It made smashy and Nicey sould like a couple of slick jocks.
What utter tosh, no he didn't, typical digital spy made up journalism.
Ignoring the fact he started off in Victoria British Colmbia
http://www.davidkidjensen.com/blog/ Seems he was 18? Hope the work on local radio works well?
Here are two stories about Jensen, from my difficult days as Program Director at Radio Trent: (I never had a problem with his performance, these true stories are offered as an insight into what went on "behind the scenes")
About a year after Trent started we were widely recognized as the best ILR to date. But manager Dennis Maitland didn't like me because I was not a member of the ex-Luxembourg inner circle he created around himself. He instructed me to call a meeting of the DJs. At the meeting he said he felt we didn't have a good team (!). I disagreed, of course. He said "Let's go around the room and each person can say if they feel the DJs are working as a team". I said OK. To paraphrase what each person said:
Me: I feel we have a great station and a good team.
John Peters: Yes, we have a great team.
Peter Quinn: We have a good team.
Guy Morris: We are working as a team.
Chris Baird: Of course we are a good team.
Graham Knight: We are a great team.
Jeff Cooper: We are working well as a team.
Jensen: No, we are not a team.
Maitland: There, I told you so, we don't have a team.
This was the kind of continuing insanity I had to deal with.
Story number two: In Jensen's final week at Radio Trent before he moved to BBC Radio One I was sitting in my office listening to him on the air. I heard him say -- on the air -- "Well, just a few more days until I skip down the medium wave band to 247"
I went downstairs to the studio and calmly said to him (paraphrasing from memory): "I don't want to hear you say anything like that again. That is not acceptable. After your show you can go to your buddy Maitland and tell him I upset you -- but you and I both know there is no station where saying something on the air to promote your move to another station would be considered OK." Jensen did not reply. I never saw him again.
A short time later, Maitland started moving against me.
Bob Snyder
Yes, and then Beacon came along, and took it to another level!!!:D;-);-)
Isn't it sad when you think Trent, Piccadilly, City and Beacon were class acts in their day, compared to the drivel we have now!!
This is true, and it was a disastrous failure. Even her own dog didn't like her.
The fact that she is still getting gigs on the radio after that is proof (if it were needed) that the people managing these stations don't have a clue what they are doing. It really is a disgrace.
Yes, Mike Barron's 1975 book, Independent Radio makes that very point, saying that Trent were able to take advantage of that.
Mind you 247 reception was hopeless in many other places too, another factor that made the early ILRs a success.
How long before we get a Documentary series from Jenson on Radio 2?
There's people I've seen on here who have been favourable about him and called him Jenson!! If people who like him don't know his surname.....
i do hope this well known good radio presenter david jensen will get live on to this radio station name the wireless from age uk or get on to global smooth radio now that would be good now
David Jensen was only let go from Smooth Radio 15 months ago just before Christmas 2013 from the Drivetime 4pm to 7pm slot. That radio network neutered him as a presenter. He won't be going back I'm sure.
He presented tonight's TOTP shown on BBC4 from 28th February 1980 and very good he was too at that time. From a "Kid" in 1980 to a "Pensioner" in 2015 this July! Time sure flies.
Your post was rather difficult to read properly I have to say.
Jenni Barnett has been a complete failure on any of the London stations recently and just isnt up to radio presenting.
This radio station has been in a downwards spiral since Pringle axed the day time line up a few years ago.
Its sadly dying a slow death.......v sad.
And yet in the last RAJAR they recorded their best audience figures for four years...
Yes, he was there for about 14 months from the beginning until he joined Radio 1 in August 1976:
http://andywalmsley.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/down-your-local-radio-trent.html
http://randomradio.net/audio/Kid%20Jensen.mp3
http://davidlloyd-radio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/trent-301.html