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Tom Coyne
Apr 7th, 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.
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Reply #1 - Apr 8th, 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.
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