Tony Livesey

Tony Livesey

Tony Livesey (born 11 January 1964 in Burnley) is a British journalist and broadcaster from Burnley.

Career

He started out with the "Nelson Leader" and then worked in the Middle East. Returning to his native Lancashire, he worked at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph before spending 18 years with Sport Newspapers at which he was editor-in-chief and managing director of the "Daily Sport" and "Sunday Sport" newspapers, in the United Kingdom. After resigning in August 2006, he joined the BBC for whom he presents the breakfast show on Radio Lancashire and is a sports reporter for regional TV news progamme BBC North West Tonight, where he covers for regular news anchor Gordon Burns in his absence. Livesey is also a regular pundit on BBC1's Inside Sport alongside Gabby Logan as well as appearances on Have I Got News For You, What The Papers Say and Never Mind The Buzzcocks, all on the BBC.

Livesey presented the one-off documentary Crumpet: A Very British Sex Symbol, which was transmitted on BBC2 on 28th December 2005 and a year later he presented another programme related to this called Beefcake: A Very British Sex Symbol, which too was transmitted on BBC2 on 27th December 2006.

He narrates the rugby league sports programme Rugby League Raw.

He now lives in Colne, Lancashire.

External links

* [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/150806/tonty_livesey_sports_newspapers_resigns Press Gazette: Sport editor Livesey resigns]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/articles/2005/11/30/radio_tony_livesey_profile_feature.shtml BBC profile]
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/content/image_galleries/radio_breakfast_show_gallery.shtml Breakfast show gallery]
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* [http://www.ukgameshows.com/page/index.php/Traitor UK Gameshows - Traitor]
* [http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax/contributor/63732 His contributions on BBC TV]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/574393.stm Editor gets complaints]


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