About Bill Dod
Bill Dod is the main news presenter on the RT UK News Channel based in Westminster, London – available in HD on Sky Channel 512, Freeview Channel 135 and Freesat. RT is now the biggest news channel on Youtube.
He fronts 4 hours of daily primetime news from 7pm that includes live interviews with politicians, national newspaper columnists, lobby groups and those caught up in the daily news agenda. During President Obama’s high profile visit to Moscow, he hosted 12 hours of live programming from Red Square over two days – without teleprompter. The output was nominated in NEW YORK for the 2010 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD FOR NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS, in the Best News Category along with Al-Jazeera and Sky News. Since then Bill Dod has been invited to participate as a judge for the awards. He also presented coverage of the meteorite crashing into central Russia and it won the BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWS AWARD at the 2013 Monte Carlo TV Festival competing against Sky News, CNN and AL Jazeera. Then in 2015 he fronted another nomination for BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWS AWARD… again at the Monte Carlo TV Festival, competing against Sky News, CNN and CBC.
Although Bill qualified as a teacher at Homerton College, Cambridge, his first job was working for BBC Local Radio for 4 years where he hosted numerous shows including a news and current affairs morning programme. He then moved to television to present many regional programmes for ITV Anglia and Meridian before fronting Timekeepers, a general knowledge daytime quiz show for BBC One.
TELEVISION
RT UK – Main News Anchor based in Westminster, London (2014 – Present)
RT International – TV News Presenter on 24 Hour Global News Channel based in Moscow (2007 – 2014)
SKY TRAVEL – studio presenter and location presenter (2004 – 2007)
BBC TV PRODUCTION TRAINING – studio presenter (1990 – 2006)
TV TRAVEL SHOP, Sky Digital – studio presenter and foreign location reporter (2002/3/4)
VIEWING 4 LEISURE, Peakviewing Transatlantic – writer/presenter/director on series featuring hotels and restaurants in Barcelona (2002) 52x 5min items
VIEWING 4 LEISURE, Peakviewing Transatlantic – writer/presenter/director on series featuring hotels and restaurants in Madrid (2001/2) 52x5min items
HOME MALONE, Anglia TV – reporter on daytime show hosted by the Sunday Mirror’s Carol Malone (2001)
VIEWING 4 LEISURE, Peakviewing Transatlantic-writer/presenter/director on leisure series featuring restaurants, golf and fishing in UK and Italy (2000/2001) 104x5min items
FOOD NETWORK DAILY, Carlton Food Network- foreign location reporter (2000/2001)
FAR AND WIDE, Anglia TV – ConsumerAffairs presenter (2000)
FAIR AND SQUARE, Anglia TV – Consumer Affairs presenter (2000)
INSIDE AND OUT, Anglia TV – Consumer Affairs presenter (2000)
THE TICKET, NBC – presenter on Entertainment News Programme (98/99)
BILL DOD’S SNOW SAFARI, Travel Channel – location writer/presenter in Canada (97)
TRAVEL LIVE, Travel Channel – studio presenter on live broadcasts to Europe & Africa (96/97)
WHAT’S COOKING? Carlton Food Network & Carlton Select – host of daily quiz show (96,97)
COUNTRYWIDE, Anglia TV- presenter on wildlife & leisure series (95/96/97)
TIMEKEEPERS, BBC 1 – host of daily network quiz show (95/96)
HERITAGE EUROPE, Travel Channel USA – presenter on travel series (96)
GETAWAYS, Meridian Broadcasting – presenter on travel series (94)
GAMEPLAY, Challenge TV – host of quiz series (94/95)
RADIO
BBC Local Radio:
BBC Cambridgeshire & BBC Essex, presenter of daily & weekend sequence programmes (88 – 95)
OTHER INFORMATION
1983 -1987 Cambridge B.Ed. Hons (Cantab) in Drama and English
AWARDS and NOMINATIONS
Presented coverage that has received the following:
NEW YORK: Nomination 2010 INTERNATIONAL EMMY AWARD FOR NEWS & CURRENT AFFAIRS, in the Best News
Category along with Al-Jazeera and Sky News.
MONTE CARLO: Gold Award 2013 BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWS COVERAGE. Monte Carlo TV Festival,
competing against Sky News, CNN and AL Jazeera.
MONTE CARLO: Nomination 2015 for BEST INTERNATIONAL NEWS COVERAGE. Monte Carlo TV Festival,
competing against Sky News, CNN and CBC.
CORPORATE WORK
Presenter of videos for the following clients: Cadbury Schweppes, Mobil Oil, Vauxhall, London Business Television, Panasonic, British Airways, Securicor, Eastern Electricity, Ford, Britvic, GlaxoSmithKline, Sainsbury’s, Royal Mail, RSPB, The Education Network, British Telecom, Volvo, Mitsubishi Motors.
LIVE EVENT FACILITATION
Launch Presenter of the new Vauxhall Frontera,Vectra,Omega & Corsa – live events (98,99,2000) Host of the Global Aerospace & Defence Trading Exchange Press Launch – live satellite link between London & New York (2000) Host of EXOSTAR press conference (worldwide aerospace partnership) – live satellite link to U.S from Farnborough Air show (2000) Host of Peugeot 307 Summer Launch Event (2001) BBC TV Studio Induction Course presenter (2002 – 2006)
Contact
UK representation
Jo Carlton
Talent4 Media Limited
G9 Shepherds Building
Rockley Road
London W14 0DA
+44 (0)20 7183 4330
enquiries@talent4media.com
talent4media.co.uk
Representation in Russia:
Larisa Semenova
English Voices
+7 916 547 9457
info@englishvoices.ru
englishvoices.tv