Nick Owen has worked in regional and national television since the late seventies. He came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain. He featured on ITV’s breakfast station TV-am from day one as a sports presenter before becoming the main anchor within eight weeks. He was soon joined by Anne Diamond in a partnership that personified the early years of breakfast television in this country. Nick then moved from the dawn patrol to become ITV Sport’s main presenter for the following six years. During this time, he anchored the Olympic Games of 1988 and the football World Cup in 1990, as well as hosting countless of other programmes from...
Nick Owen has worked in regional and national television since the late seventies. He came to national prominence in 1983 as one of the first faces to appear on breakfast television in Britain.
He featured on ITV’s breakfast station TV-am from day one as a sports presenter before becoming the main anchor within eight weeks. He was soon joined by Anne Diamond in a partnership that personified the early years of breakfast television in this country. Nick then moved from the dawn patrol to become ITV Sport’s main presenter for the following six years. During this time, he anchored the Olympic Games of 1988 and the football World Cup in 1990, as well as hosting countless of other programmes from home and abroad.
Nick and Anne Diamond were re-united in the nineties with their daytime show, Good Morning with Anne and Nick, on BBC 1. This ran for 600 programmes, before Nick moved to his current post as presenter of the regional news programme, BBC Midlands Today.
In 2004, Nick published his autobiography, In the Time of Nick. In 2006 he was awarded the Baird Medal by the Royal Television Society. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Worcester in 2013. He served as the chairman of Luton Town Football Club between 2008 and 2017. In 2023, Nick was named On Screen Personality of the Year at the Royal Television Society Midlands Awards. He was appointed MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours 2024 for his services to charity and broadcasting.
Nick also chairs conferences and seminars and is a highly skilled conference facilitator and after dinner speaker. He has a wealth of experience hosting events and award ceremonies, both at home and abroad and was awarded Speaker of the Year 2010 by the Association of Speakers Club.
