Ricky Salmon

Ricky Salmon (born 10 January 1967) is a voice-over artist, the owner of voice-over agency and recording studio, BigFish Media, and a freelance newsreader for BBC Radio 2.
Since qualifying as a broadcast journalist in 1989, Ricky has worked as a travel reporter for AA Roadwatch, as a newsreader, senior journalist and "flying eye" travel news reporter for Ocean FM, Power FM and South Coast Radio (now Gold), as a presenter/producer for BBC Radio Solent and BBC Wiltshire Sound, as a journalist/newsreader for national commercial broadcasters Virgin Radio and TalkSPORT, and as a presenter for London News 97.3.
During his time as Ocean/Power's flying eye, he earned the nickname Sicky Salmon after an occasion in which airsickness in the Cessna aircraft caused him to be sick in mid-broadcast.
Ricky was an announcer/newsreader for the old BBC Radio 5 and at midnight on Sunday 27 March 1994 was the last voice to be heard on the network, prior to the launch the new 5 Live at 5am the next morning.
Other broadcasting has included working as a continuity announcer for Granada Plus (now ITV3) and the World Radio Network, and a Sunday evening music show for which presented on the Play Love channel of Play Radio UK.

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