Paul Phear

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Paul Phear is a British radio presenter, who presents on weekday afternoons and Saturday evenings across the UK on Smooth Radio.

Career

In the 1980s, Phear worked as the afternoon presenter at GWR's Radio West, [1] presenting the show between 1:15pm and 4:00pm in 1983 with a radio market taking place 15 minutes into the show, [2] before moving to present a networked show on the GWR network. [1] He also presented the Top 40 show on Radio West on Saturdays in the 1980s. [3]

Phear presented on the Superstation, a radio service which existed from 1988 until 1991 and provided overnight for commercial radio stations across the UK. [4]

Throughout the 1990s, Phear worked at 95.8 Capital FM in London. In 1994, Phear was presenting Saturday breakfast between 6am and 10am on the station. [5] In 1996, he was presenting the breakfast show every Thursday between 6am and 10am on the station. [6] Before leaving the station to work at Capital Life, Phear presented early mornings on the station. [7]

At Capital Life, a commercial radio station broadcasting across the UK on digital radio, Phear presented the breakfast show. [7] Phear presented the breakfast show until 2005, and the last part of his show was an exploration of the music of a particular year from the past few decades.

Phear presented the afternoon show on Magic Radio until 2014, [8] when he left to present the afternoon show on Smooth Radio. He still presents the same show on Smooth Radio, as well as presenting The Smooth Sanctuary, a show featuring particularly downbeat and relaxing pop music pieces from the last seven decades, on Saturday evenings (The Smooth Sanctuary is presented on the other days of the week by Gary Vincent). [9] He began presenting The Smooth Sanctuary on Saturday evenings in 2021. [10] The Smooth Sanctuary's Saturday edition is currently broadcast between 7pm and 10pm.

In the radio audience listening figures from RAJAR covering July to September 2023 inclusive, Phear's afternoon show on Smooth Radio had a market share of 4.2%. [11]

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  7. 1 2 "Media: Capital launches digital offering". www.prweek.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
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  10. ↑ "Weekend changes at Smooth Radio as Kirsty Gallacher joins". RadioToday. 2021-07-14. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
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