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Steve Wright

Steve Wright (born 26th August 1954 in Greenwich, London) is a radio broadcaster who currently presents the afternoon show on BBC Radio 2.

He started broadcasting in the 1970s on Radio Luxembourg, and joined BBC Radio 1 in 1980, presenting a Saturday evening show before moving onto present Steve Wright in the Afternoon from 1982. In 1984 Steve also took over a Sunday morning show entitled 'Steve Wright on Sunday', which meant he presented Weekday afternoons Mondays - Thursdays only, Mark Page & Paul Jordan presented Friday afternoon's show. Then in 1986, his Sunday Morning show ended, which meant he was heard 5 afternoons a week again.

His afternoon show had a "zoo" format, with spoof guests, comedy sketches and a "posse" of producers and radio staff who would join in with the DJ links and whoop and cheer every minor announcement. The show went out of its way to be silly, including regular stories taken from the Weekly World News. The success of the show even led to a hit single, "I'll Be Back", released under the name "Arnee & The Terminators".

Wright cemented his reputation of knowing nothing about music when he famously declared that LFO, the self-titled techno classic, was the worst song of 1990, showing that he knew nothing about the direction music was taking at the period.

Wright moved to the Breakfast Show in 1994, but resigned in 1995 due to differences with the Radio 1 management after the station was restructured by new controller Matthew Bannister, which led to many of the more established DJs leaving around this time. He was picked up by the new commercial station Talk Radio, where he presented a Saturday morning show, but returned to the BBC in 1996, when he joined Radio 2, presenting 'Steve Wright's Saturday Show' Saturdays 10am-1pm & 'Steve Wright's Sunday Love Songs' Sundays 9-11am.

In 1999, Steve took over Radio 2's Weekday afternoon show & he was also the voice of the retro pop show on BBC television, Top of the Pops 2 before it was axed.

Some or all material in this page has been adapted from the Steve Wright entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wright), or others, in Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org), the free encyclopedia.