About Ian Waugh

Ian was born and brought up in the rural English South West. "I am a country lad who leads a city life and because I come from a rural background it does not mean I have straw growing out of my ears and speak with a broad incomprehensible accent!"

"My earliest recollections were the tough years we spent living at Princetown on Dartmoor in the late 50's - early 60's. As a young lad I lived just a stone's throw from the most notorious prison in Britain whilst enduring the vicious unrelenting moorland winters".

Ian Waugh (55) is the third generation in his family connected to broadcasting, his father worked for the BBC for many years. Ian started his wide-ranging career in the early 1970's with Independent Television (ITV) in the UK as a voiceover with Westward Television, Southern Television and HTV. Later he worked for London Weekend Television, TVS, Television South West and the fledgling Sky Channel.

Ian joined UK commercial radio with the start of DevonAir Radio. He was later appointed the station's Head of Presentation and went on to become a successful international broadcast management consultant.

Prior to the current Zimbabwean political crisis Ian worked with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation as an adviser and turned a flagging national radio service (Radio 3) into a profitable and popular national station.

Ian Waugh was a production and presentation adviser to Malta's national broadcaster, Xandir Malta (now PBS) and was later involved in several projects concerning deregulated broadcasting in the republic.

He assisted the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation and helped to establish the country's first all black presentation television news and current affairs programme as well as assisting and developing several major national radio projects.

Ian Waugh is currently developing several DRM and DAB digital broadcast ventures across Europe (more here).

Apart from broadcasting, Ian is a renowned historic researcher, historian and published author. His extensive research into the life of Victorian murderer and celebrity John Lee resulted in the publication of The Man They Could Not Hang which has been well received and reviewed worldwide.

These days Ian lives in the English South East although he still keeps his strong ties with the Westcountry where he was born and brought up as well as Malta in the Mediterranean where he still retains personal and business connections".

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