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http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl >> Notices, obituaries and tributes >> Tom Coyne http://www.ex-bbc.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1428437014 Message started by Administrator on Apr 7^th, 2015, 8:04pm

Title: Tom Coyne
Post by Administrator on Apr 7^th, 2015, 8:04pm

Tom Coyne, who presented Midlands Today and many other programmes from Birmingham, has died. He was 84. The Birmingham Mail has this report.

Title: Re: Tom Coyne
Post by Administrator on Apr 8^th, 2015, 10:55am

There is a tribute to Tom Coyne here, courtesy of "ATVtoday".

"Tom Coyne began his career in his twenties hosting radio series Children’s Hour for the BBC. In July 1958 he auditioned for a role at the newly founded North East ITV station TTTV. Armed with an edition of the TV Times he read a line up from the listing magazine for company bosses George and Alfred Black – who gave strict instructions he had to exactly fill sixty seconds with ‘in vision continuity’ and come out exactly on the final second."

Tom presented the introduction to "the new BBC Studios at Pebble Mill", including a demonstration of

"transistorised coconut shells".

The item was first broadcast in June 1971.