Broadcaster and journalist

Brian Alexander, the BBC Radio 5 Live presenter, communications consultant and former national newspaper sports editor is one of the very few to have successfully made the jump from print to broadcast. Brian is an excellent event host, conference chair, link and master of ceremonies.

Brian, born in London in 1957, always wanted to be a newspaper journalist and started in his late teens on a local bi-weekly. He rapidly cut his teeth on a variety of broadsheet and tabloid dailies in Fleet Street as a sports reporter and sub-editor.
He helped launch Robert Maxwell’s “Sportsweek Magazine” in 1985, was appointed Sports Features Editor of Eddie Shah’s “Today” before being made Deputy Sports Editor of “The Mail on Sunday” in 1987.

Four happy years were followed by one year as Sports Editor of “The Sun”, the biggest job in his field. During his brief stay at Wapping, Brian oversaw one of the most iconic back pages in newspaper history, turning the then England manager Graham Taylor into a turnip.

He then moved back to Associated Newspapers as Sports Editor of the “London Evening Standard”.

During his three years at the Standard, Brian dabbled in what was to become his future career. He was hired as a pundit by Capital Gold for two seasons. He went by the nickname “Fleet Street Super Scooper” and also started presenting programmes for the cable TV station Channel One twice a week.

Within days of jumping from newspapers to broadcasting in 1994, Brian was presenting the sports bulletins on the BBC Radio 4 “Today” programme and presenting two new shows he devised on BBC Radio 5 Live – “Sportsweek”, on Sunday mornings, and the Friday night show “Papertalk”. He won a Sony Gold Award for the latter.

He presented his own television chat-show throughout Channel 5’s first year before making another important transition … from sport to news and current affairs.
In 1999, he was chosen to present Late Night Live four nights a week on 5 Live before switching three years later to his current role, hosting Weekend Breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings on the same network.

In addition, Brian regular hosts the 1-4pm slot during the week and has recently researched and presented three important programmes on 5 Live: an investigation into the future of the Football Association, and two programmes marking the 20th anniversaries of the Bradford Fire and the Heysel Stadium disaster.

You will also see Brian at every Tottenham Hotspur home game. He is the pitch-side presenter before each game at White Hart Lane, interviewing past and present Spurs stars.

In recent years, Brian has established himself as one of the leading Media Trainers. His clients include leading sports organisations and a number of banks and City institutions. His wealth of experience is greatly valued by businesses in need of public relations and communications advice.

He has also proved to be an accomplished, unflappable and genial host for corporate and charity functions.