Rob Ellis (DJ)

Rob Ellis is a DJ from Preston, United Kingdom.

He presents Capital Breakfast with The Rob Ellis Show on 102 FM Capital Manchester, which broadcasts every weekday between 6am and 10am. Rob works alongside his small team which consists of Nigel 'Wingman' Clucas and Rachel 'Text on Legs' Burke-Davies. The Rob Ellis Show is one of only four breakfast shows on the Capital network that has a team of three presenters, alongside those on Capital Scotland, Capital Liverpool and Capital North East. As of June 2018, Ellis has presented the breakfast show for 11 years, making him one of the longest serving breakfast show hosts on the Manchester 102 FM frequency.

Wayne Rooney was known to have been a fan of the show and was quoted to have been a regular listener on his way to training for Manchester United.

Life and career

Ellis worked as a DJ in Preston, before starting his radio career in 1996 as a producer for shows on Red Rose 999 before progressing to their flagship FM station Rock FM. He later moved on to Manchester's Key 103 to present the station's evening show. Ellis was then later released by Key 103.

In 2006, Ellis joined Galaxy Manchester, and within the first year he was moved to the station's Drive Time show where he was first joined by his co-presenter and then producer Wingman.

In March 2014, Ellis married his fiancée Lisa, sharing their wedding photographs to his listeners via the show's online blog.

Capital Breakfast with The Rob Ellis Show (2007 - present)

In June 2007, Ellis took over the Galaxy 102 breakfast show from Wes Butters, presenting his first broadcast on Monday 18th June 2007. He was rejoined by Wingman and for the first time, co-presented the show with Rachel Burke-Davies and comedian 'Stand Up' Alex Boardman, an original co-presenter of Wes Butters' show.[1][2]

In April 2008, The Rob Ellis Show was nominated for the Sony Radio Awards 'Rising Star' award (won by George Lamb), alongside Kelly Osbourne and others.[3] In the same year, Boardman left the show to focus on other projects, with Wingman stepping in as Boardman's replacement and joining Burke-Davies as a permanent co-presenter on The Rob Ellis Show.

In January 2011, amidst the rebranding of multiple Galaxy stations to the Capital network, Ellis continued as host of the breakfast show when the station re-branded as Capital Manchester. The show was renamed to Capital Breakfast with Rob Ellis to align with the main format of the Capital network. This stayed until 2018 when The Rob Ellis Show name was brought back by popular demand.

References

  1. ↑ "Breakfast changes at Galaxy – RadioToday". radiotoday.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  2. ↑ "Biography". Alex Boardman - Stand Up Comic, Writer and Performer. 2010-06-21. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  3. ↑ Campling, Chris (April 11, 2008). "DJ George Lamb – love him or hate him?". The Times. Retrieved 2011-03-31.


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