UK TV and Radio Voice Over, BigFish Media was formed in 2004 by BBC Radio 2 Newsreader and Professional voice-over artist Ricky Salmon and BBC TV Continuity Announcer Phil Vowels. Ricky Salmon has experience of voicing corporate and training videos, radio commercials and trailers, "on hold" telephone messages, IVR(voice prompts) and webpages. He is also a television continuity announcer for PLUS and a radio continuity announcer for World Radio Network. Phil Vowels is a Continuity Announcer for both BBC1 and BBC2 Television. He is an experienced BBC radio presenter, having presented and produced programmes for BBC Southern Counties Radio, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Solent and a late night phone-in programme heard on all BBC radio stations across the South West of England.
 
 
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Ricky Salmon

Ricky SalmonYou will probably already be familiar with his name and voice as Ricky Salmon is a freelance newsreader for BBC Radio 2. He is also a voiceover artist with his own ISDN-equipped home studio in Surrey.

Ricky has voiced commercials for Euronews TV, Channel TV, Classic FM, Real Radio, Wave 105, Hertbeat FM and many more. 

His corporate clients include Canon, Lockheed Martin, Dell, KFC, Fiat, Woolworths, Southern Water, PC World and Honda.

Ricky is also experienced in voicing training, sales and charity videos, shopping centre announcements, interactive cd-roms, dubbing, webpages and telephone "on-hold" messages.

He can be regularly heard voicing an "on hold" news service for clients which include Mercedes-Benz, Vodafone, Parceline, the Carphone Warehouse and Kwikfit. 

Ricky also presents a music show on the Play Love channel of http://www.playradiouk.com/ on Sunday evenings.

Since 2001, Ricky has been a continuity announcer for the World Radio Network. He was also a television continuity announcer for Granada Plus (now ITV3) and a continuity announcer for BBC Radio 5. He has also worked as a presenter for the BBC Training Unit. 

Ricky has also very successfully presented, live on stage, at the 2006 Purple Apple Awards Dinner in London. To book him for your event, please contact him directly.

He is a member of the actors union Equity.

To request Ricky's showreel on CD or MP3, or to enquire about a booking, please click on "Contact BigFish" or call +44 (0) 1483 750578. 

For all television work, he is represented by Raphael McAuliffe at Archangel Voices. His email is raphael "at" archangelvoices.co.uk or call him on 0208 873 7095 or 07774 236445. 

Since qualifying as a broadcast journalist in 1989, Ricky has been working in the media. He has previously worked:



  • as a newsreader, continuity announcer and trail-maker for the now defunct BBC Radio 5;


  • as a trails producer for BBC Five Live;                            

  • as a journalist/newsreader for Virgin Radio;


  • as a journalist/newsreader for TalkSPORT;

  • as a presenter/producer for BBC Radio Solent;              
  • as a presenter/producer for BBC Wiltshire Sound;

  • as a presenter for London News 97.3 (now LBC 97.3);

  • as a broadcast assistant for BBC Radio Oxford;

  • as a newsreader, senior journalist and "flying eye" travel news reporter for Ocean FM and Power FM;

  • as a music presenter and phone-in producer for South Coast Radio (now Gold);

  • as a presenter for Cowes Week Radio;


  • as a music presenter for GWR;

  • as a travel reporter for AA Roadwatch.