Aircheck Tracker
Profile: Tim Disney: Tim is best known for his work with Trent-FM pre-GWR ownership. Back in the 1990's, Dick Stone, Mark Burrows and other members of the team re-recorded 'Double Trouble & The Rebel MC's' hit 'Street Tuff' as a promo for Tim Disney's show, the lyrics including 'the Rebel TD' and 'is he a Yankee, no he's from Derbyshire' which is where the promo descended into farce with '...Derbyshire ? That doesn't rhyme'.*
Tim has also worked for Chiltern FM, Classic Gold, GEM-AM & Juice 107.2. Amongst his anecdotes is a story about nearly chopping a finger off in the high speed spinning of an open reel tape machine! Another is his worst 'dead-air' experience - when a power cut forced him to sit around for three hours with nothing to do at all! Obviously there was no back-up generator back then. Finally, at one stage, Tim was the only person working in a radio station building on an overnight UK networked show one night when the fire alarm went off and he had to evacuate the studio leaving a CD on.
He is a believer that DJ's can talk too much and is quoted as saying that talk should be quality and not quantity, and that the most cheesy DJ catchphrase relates to competitions and associated prizes that are 'up for grabs'.
Tim was once tracked
at Forever Broadcasting's Peak 107
in Chesterfield where he was one of a small band of presenters and the station's
Programme Controller. Whilst working with Trent back in the 90s, Tim's
name check jingle sung 'Tim Disney' twice, with a vocal shout in between
adding 'the most fun you can have with your radio on'. The things you
remember!
Whereabouts: Tim is currently back at Nottingham's Trent FM
presenting on a Saturday from 15:00-19:00.
Simon Parry
reports: 'You were asking what's happened to Tim Disney, he's advertising himself as a
voiceover artist in The Radio Magazine, and when you go to
www.timdisney.com, there is information about a new production
company, 'Inspire' - the website launched on Monday 20th January 2002.' Tim
Disney.com offers radio studio facilities for RSLs and Tim's very own voiceover
service amongst other things.
* = Part of this promo can be heard on the double cassette collection from the Aircheck Archive called 'Trent Gold' as compiled by this site's editor! - interested in having a copy? - please e-mail ianmsperry@hotmail.com - or hear it for yourself now whilst your on the 'net' at the above address for 'Tim Disney's Murky Past'.