Ian Waugh
Ian David Waugh (born August 22 1954) is a broadcaster, broadcast consultant and founder of Prime Digital Broadcasting Limited.
Born in Dorset, England, he is the third generation of a broadcasting family. He started his wide-ranging career in the early 1970s with Independent Television (ITV) in the UK with Westward Television, Southern Television and HTV. Later he worked for London Weekend Television, TVS, Television South West and the fledgling Sky Channel.
Ian Waugh joined UK Independent Local Radio with the start of DevonAir Radio. He later moved into broadcast management as the station's Head of Presentation and then as a successful broadcast management consultant.
He was a production and presentation adviser to Xandir Malta and was later involved in several projects concerning deregulated broadcasting in Malta until 1991.
Ian worked with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation as an adviser and turned a flagging national radio service (Radio 3) into a profitable and popular station. He also assisted the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation in matters related to presentation training and development for both television and radio. Whilst in Namibia he interviewed The Most Revd. Desmond Mpilo Tutu for NBC TV.
Despite recent poor health, Ian Waugh has been involved in several broadcast ventures and remains a positive force in broadcasting.
"The essence of good broadcasting is tact, taste and good sense - getting the feelings right as well as the facts..." "In radio and television we are not apart from the world - we are a part of it..." "I do not believe in bland, disengaged broadcasting..." "I use my eyes, ears, mind and store of experience, which is the essence, I hope, of the subjective."
Apart from broadcasting, Ian Waugh is a renowned historian and published author. In 2005 "The Man They Could Not Hang" (co-authored with Mike Holgate) was published worldwide. It tells the true story of Victorian [...] John 'Babbacombe' Lee, who famously escaped death at the gallows three times.
Ian is a keen follower of Disability Issues after the onslaught of his own mobility and disability matters ten years ago. He has travelled extensively and continues to enjoy an ACTIVE and busy life. His "velvet" voice is in demand, he is involved in several broadcast development projects and still finds time for his historic research.