Sam Pinkham

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Sam Pinkham is an English broadcaster, known as the Early Breakfast Presenter on Virgin Radio UK.

His sister Natalie Pinkham is the Formula One pit lane reporter for Sky Sports F1. Sam Pinkham hosts The Sun online bike blog. Honda worked with him for their Just Ride campaign with Virgin Radio. He also hosts TheCarCrowd's YouTube channel and fronts many of The Car Crowd's videos and events.

Pinkham is also known for his on-air work with Amy Voce, presenting the Sam and Amy breakfast show on Gem 106 (formerly Heart East Midlands) for eleven years.[1] The programme won two Gold Radio Academy Awards (2013 & 2014), Gold at the 2015 Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards[2] and Silver at the 2016 ARIAS.[3] The duo have also presented cover shows for BBC Radio 2[4] and Magic.

Biography[]

Pinkham began his radio career as a traffic reporter for stations including the first incarnation of Virgin Radio, Northants 96, and Leicester Sound. He joined Century 106 in 2002 as weekend breakfast presenter, before moving onto drivetime and in 2006, the flagship weekday breakfast show.[5] Between 2010 and 2015. Sam was a cover presenter on }} Gem 106}}. He covered Saturdays 10am-1pm and Sundays 8pm-12am but his main show was the breakfast show with Amy 6am-10am weekdays and various morning shows during Christmas.

On television, he presented The Big Bang for CITV and a series on caravaning and camping for Men and Motors.[6] From August 2015 until September 2017, the 'Sam and Amy' show for Gem 106 was simulcast live on local television channel Notts TV.

On 29 September 2017, Pinkham and Voce left Gem 106[7] to join national DAB station Virgin Radio UK to present its weekday breakfast show between Monday 2 October 2017 and Friday 18 January 2019.[8] He currently presents a weekday early show on the station.

Away from broadcasting, Pinkham is also a director of AtomicMedia, a digital marketing agency.[9][10] He is also the brother of Sky Sports F1 presenter Natalie Pinkham.

References[]

  1. ^ Sam and Amy celebrate 10 years at breakfast, radiotoday.co.uk, 29 April 2016
  2. ^ Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards 2015 www.arqiva.com.
  3. ^ ARIAS the winners[permanent dead link] www.radioacademy.org
  4. ^ Award-winning radio hosts Sam and Amy land Radio 2 slots, bbc.co.uk, 8 July 2014
  5. ^ North Media Talent - Sam Pinkham
  6. ^ Sam Pinkham www.northmediatalent.com. Retrieved on 2015-11-11.
  7. ^ Jo & Sparky to replace Sam & Amy at GEM 106, Radio Today, 14 September 2017
  8. ^ Sam and Amy to do Virgin Radio breakfast, Radio Today, 14 September 2017
  9. ^ AtomicMedia - Digital Marketing Agency
  10. ^ Sam Pinkham, LinkedIn
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