Danny Cox (radio presenter)

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Danny Cox is a British radio presenter and journalist.

He currently presents music-based shows on Virgin Radio Anthems [1] and Virgin Radio 80s Plus; [2] he is also a journalist for BBC News Streaming, [3] a presenter of The Newsroom on the BBC World Service, and a presenter at BBC Radio Oxford. [4]

Career

Cox's career began at BBC Radio Leicester. [5]

In the 1980s, Cox presented the chart show on Radio Trent in Nottingham. [6] The show involved a countdown of the best-selling pop music songs of the week, with some or all of the songs being played in full.

In the latter half of the 1990s, he worked as a presenter at Fox FM (now known as Heart Oxfordshire) in Oxfordshire; during this time, he lost his fiancee, the broadcaster Sue McGarry, to suicide. [7]

Cox launched the Oxford Channel [5] in 1999.

In 2006, Cox was working as a presenter at BBC Radio Oxford, presenting on weekdays between 10am and 1pm. [8] In 2008, Louisa Hannan, also a presenter at BBC Radio Oxford at the time, joined Cox for a new mid-morning show on the station, "Daytimes with Danny and Lou". The show was created as a result of feedback from members of the BBC Radio Oxford audience, some of which was gathered at a special event. [9] The show included music, consumer advice and other content. [10] Cox and Hannan presented their last programme together in 2009. [11] Hannan continued to present the programme after Cox's departure from BBC Radio Oxford in 2009. In 2009, Cox was also working as a voiceover artist. [12]

In 2009, Cox was appointed Station Controller and presenter of the morning show at Mix 96 in Buckinghamshire. [13] [5]

As of 2016, Cox was a sports presenter at BBC Radio Oxford. [14] He also presented the station's Saturday afternoon sports programme at this time. Cox is still a presenter of sports programmes for the station. [15] In addition, in the 2010s, Cox presented some travel bulletins for the station, live from the Traffic Control Centre of Oxfordshire.

Since 2014, Cox has been at the BBC World Service as a presenter of The Newsroom (a programme featuring reports from BBC journalists from around the world about the latest news stories); he has also presented BBC Outside Source (a programme featuring in-depth coverage of current news stories from across the world). As part of his duties as a presenter of The Newsroom, Cox also presents the BBC's Global News Podcast.

Cox is a presenter on Virgin Radio Anthems, [1] a radio station broadcasting nationally on DAB+ in the UK, and Virgin Radio 80s Plus, which broadcasts to some of the UK on digital radio. [2] He joined Virgin Radio Anthems no later than 2021. [16]

Cox is also a Senior Journalist at BBC News Streaming. [3]

Cox has been the sole voiceover for BBC Radio Derby.

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