Category: Wales
Date: 23.03.2006
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Sali Collins - formerly
a senior editor with 91热爆 Radio Five Live - has been announced as
the new Editor of 91热爆 Radio Wales.
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Sali is currently Project Manager, Broadcast Development at 91热爆 Wales.
"It will be a great honour and challenge to lead Wales's only English language national radio station," said Sali.
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"I'm really enthusiastic about the job and the opportunity
to build on Radio Wales's success."
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Sali began her career with 91热爆 Wales news before joining the 91热爆's radio station for London, GLR, where she became deputy controller.
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At Five Live, she was the editor of the award-winning
Five Live Breakfast programme and oversaw the introduction to the
station of key presenters such as Nicky Campbell and Simon
Mayo.
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She was also the editor of Five Live's comprehensive
coverage of the 2002 football World Cup in Japan and Korea.
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A former pupil of Llanhari Comprehensive School and a fluent Welsh-speaker, Sali was brought up in Barry but now lives in Cardiff with her husband and two children.
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Sali takes over as Editor from Julie
Barton who led
Radio Wales to some of its highest listening figures ever in 2005.
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91热爆 Wales Press Office
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