New Breakfast Presenter For BBC6

Shaun Keaveny is to take over the BBC6 weekday breakfast show on Monday 2 April 2007, taking over the slot from Phill Jupitus.

Don Letts, Guy Garvey, George Lamb and The Queens of Noize will also present new shows as part of a new schedule next month.

Shaun Keaveny moves from his current evening slot on BBC6 to present the breakfast show from 7am to 10am.

Keaveny said: “It’s difficult to express how excited I am about taking the 6 Music breakfast chair without resorting to colourful Anglo-Saxon language.”

Lesley Douglas, Controller, Radio 2 and 6 Music, said: “I have long admired Shaun Keaveny – his irreverence, humour and love of music will make him the perfect new breakfast show presenter as we move 6 Music into its sixth year.

“Phill Jupitus is, of course, a hard act to follow. Phill’s commitment and passion has been key in building 6 Music’s audience and reputation.”

Before joining BBC6 last year, Shaun Keaveny presented the Friday breakfast show on London’s Xfm where he helped to secure a 2006 Sony Gold Award for Xfm’s Rock School, co-presenting with Lauren Laverne.

He is a regular pundit for ITV1, ITV2, Channel 4 and Five as well as the current narrator for E4’s Stop Treating Me Like A Kid, Superheroes for Sky One and Channel 4’s Road To V.

At the last RAJARs, BBC6 had a weekly reach of 383,000, compared to BBC Radio 2’s weekly reach of well over 13.2 million (see BBC Stations Continue To Perform Well).

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