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UCE BIRMINGHAM HONOURS ONE THE COUNTRY’S LONGEST SERVING BROADCASTERS

4233/SA 7th February 2007

UCE Birmingham is delighted to announce that it will be conferring the honorary award of Doctor of the University upon local broadcaster and senior presenter with ITV Central, Bob Warman, tomorrow in recognition of his services to broadcasting, journalism and the media.

Bob Warman is one of the longest serving anchormen in ITV news, having started his television career in 1973 with ATV. As a television reporter, his assignments have included the Birmingham pub bombings where he and his film crew were the first on the scene.

A Midlander by birth, Bob has chosen to pursue the majority of his broadcasting and business career in the region. His work as a journalist commenced on the Walsall Observer and from there he went to the Birmingham Evening Mail where he spent a period in the Fleet Street office. He began broadcasting with BBC Radio Birmingham in 1971.

From 1976 to 1979 Bob fronted Calendar, the evening regional news magazine programme for the Yorkshire region. During that time he also became the first ‘face’ of breakfast television programming in the UK, a pilot run in the Yorkshire and Tyne-Tees region that was to lead to the creation of a permanent licence subsequently won by TV-AM.

Bob has also hosted 65 programmes of SKY’s The Price is Right and the three ITV Telethons which raised millions of pounds for charity in 36 hours of non-stop broadcasting.

Bob’s achievements were recognised with a special award from the Midlands region of the Royal Television Society in October 2003 and, to mark Birmingham’s centenary as a city, he was named as one of the 100 “Great Brummies”.

Bob formed the Warman Group Public Relations Company in 1994 and was a founder director of two local radio stations. He is currently Regional Chairman of Coutts & Co. Away from the studios he is involved in a number of local societies and charities. He is Vice-chairman of Birmingham Civic Society and Vice President of the Birmingham Press Club, a founder committee member of the Midland region Princess Royal Trust for Carers, a patron of Acorn’s Children’s Hospice, President of the Acorn’s Business Club, and is Life Vice President of the Newspaper Press Fund.

This prestigious award will be conferred on 8 February at the University’s Awards Congregation in Symphony Hall, which will celebrate the work and achievements of students graduating from the UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design.

For further information please contact Birmingham City University Media Relations Office on 0121 331 6738, email press@bcu.ac.uk or out of hours on 07967 271 532.

Please note; this press release was written when we were still called University of Central England in Birmingham; since then we have changed our name to Birmingham City University.

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