Roland Gent
2013 Broadcast Assistant on Stephen Nolan Show 5 Live BBC
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2009- 2013 Manager of Salford City Radio
Radio training, Studio manager, News Journalist, Fundraising manager
2008-2009 Post Grad Broadcast
Journalism Course. UCLAN Preston
2008 - The Vinyl Frontier - My own music show on The CAT, for Crewe and Nantwich
2007 Finalist Virgin Radio Breakfast show, Opportunity Knocks.
2007 WFM Presenter
2004 Roland Gent Comedy Hour - Extreme FM, web based rock station
2002-2003 Get Happy - I presented a weekly comedy and music show on WFM 97.2fm in Manchester.
2001 ALL FM presenter- Radio station based in Manchester.
2000 XFM London, Overnight Presenter
1999 Radio School Of Excellence - Core 3 Graduate
1999 BBC Radio One - Broadcast Assistant
1998 Asian Sound Radio - Breakfast Presenter
1995-1997 BBC GMR Talk - Broadcast Assistant, GM Arts a "What's On" show
1990 BBC World Service - writing and performing comedy sketches for "Megamix" a teenage show
1983-1985 R.O.T.T. - Writing and presenting a "youth" show on BBC Radio Sheffield
2015-2017
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Broadcast Journalist
That’s Lancashire TV, Made In Liverpool and Made in Leeds TV.
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Covering northern regions, finding editing and self-filming a news package for the 5.30 news each day. Social Media channels marketing.
For Examples of news packages please click here
Flooding in Earby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ln5BL-f06Y
Hassan Learns to Walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2hB1EUzNME
Many of my news reports have been used by the BBC on North West Tonight.
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2013 Real XS Manchester
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Presenting the evening show on commercial rock station in Manchester and North West England
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2013 to 2015 Radio Journalist Pure Radio Stockport
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Reading the news. Sourcing Stories originating stories and treatments. Social Media channels marketing.
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2013 - BBC Radio Derby Journalist
Sourcing stories
Making News packages
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2009- Internship BBC 6 Music on Steve Lamacq and Gideon Coe Shows
2009 - Radio 5 - The Big Ask Joke Writer
Newspaper Journalism
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2016 to present Derbyshire Times and Sheffield Star Sports
Currently I write a sports newspaper column for the Derbyshire Times and Sheffield Star and Sheffield Telegraph
2016 to present
Broadcast Journalist
Chesterfield FC filming match footage and editing highlights packages
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2017 to 2021
Fab Radio International
Total Rock
Red Wall Radio
Syndicated Internet Broadcasting my music shows
2017- 2018
High Peak Radio
News Journalism. Breaking stories, interviews reading the news
I also presented the Saturday Sports Show on High Peak Radio, we followed Buxton FC New Mills and Glossop FC. Plus freelance news journalism