Welcome to Sound & Vision Media

After growing up and living all my life in Exeter, I am very proud to be an ambassador for the Exeter Bites Back campaign.  The City is one that I love so much, and is one reason why I recently decided to leave ITV after working for twenty years as a sport and news presenter on regional programmes like Soccer Night and Westcountry Live.  With the studio base moving to Bristol, I felt the time was right to work much more in the area that I can really identify with and feel passionately about.

Of course it’s not easy to swap a regular income for the potentially more precarious life of a freelance. I have set up an independent production company ‘Sound and Vision Media’, which is giving me a fantastic opportunity to work behind the camera, as well as in front of it. I have always enjoyed the technical side of radio and TV, and now I have a wonderful chance to do much more of it.

Any initial concerns I may have had that there would be little call for my services in Exeter have been quickly dispelled.  Many local companies have identified that the use of professionally produced video on websites and DVD is absolutely vital in growing business at a time when advertising budgets and marketing strategies have been compromised by the economic climate. Modern technology means that it’s an extremely cost effective way of spreading a message far and wide.

I am also delighted to be playing a role in a fantastic sporting initiative based in Exeter. The Run in England campaign aims to get 50,000 people out running regularly in the lead up to, and well beyond, the London 2012 Olympics. It’s being organised by the same people who launched the hugely successful Women’s Running Network in the City eleven years ago, and in association with England Athletics I have been asked to head up the communications team.

I won’t be losing touch with broadcasting altogether. After starting my career alongside Jill Dando and Ben Bradshaw at BBC Radio Devon in the 1980’s, I was really pleased when another truly local station, Exeter FM 107.3, went on air last year and asked me to do a regular programme.  It has a fantastic mix of music and local Exeter news, refreshing at a time when other local media seems to be less and less local.  The added bonus is that I don’t have to wear a suit and make-up!!! There’s no better time to be talking about all things Exeter! I fully support the Exeter Bites Back campaign.