Tam Cowan
Tam Cowan (born 21 April 1969) is a football journalist, radio and television presenter. Educated at Braidhurst High School in Motherwell, he writes a twice weekly article in the Daily Record newspaper and was presenter of Scottish football comedy TV show Offside.
He is the Daily Record Chip Correspondent, and an award winning restaurant critic and reviewer and reviews Scottish restaurants based on a score of 25 by considering 5 factors of the restaurant: Food, Service, Toilets, Decor and Value.
Cowan also presents the comedy football radio show Off the Ball along with fellow Daily Record journalist and good friend Stuart Cosgrove. It is also well known that Cowan is a fan of Motherwell. Cowan has also taken to live stand-up comedy by taking "Offside" to the stage in 2002. The show was recorded live at the King's Theatre, Glasgow for DVD.
In February 2010, Cowan presented It's Never Too Late, a six-part documentary series for STV on literacy and numeracy difficulties among adults. Cowan was also a guest presenter for STV's overnight interactive strand The Nightshift and rejoined the station on Tuesday 20 September 2011 as a main co-presenter for the lifestyle magazine show The Hour, alongside Michelle McManus.[1][2] The programme was axed four weeks after a move to a weekly prime time slot and a revamp of the programme led to low ratings.[3]
Cowan was temporarily dropped from Off the Ball by BBC Scotland in 2013, for allegedly sexist remarks made about women's football in his Daily Record column.[4]
References
- ↑ Record man Tam Cowan to co-host The Hour as it returns to TV in new format
- ↑ Tam Cowan joins Michelle McManus for The Hour’s new primetime show
- ↑ BBC News - STV drops magazine show The Hour
- ↑ McLaughlin, Martyn (29 September 2013). "Tam Cowan off air over women’s football comments". The Scotsman (Johnston Publishing). Retrieved 5 December 2013.
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| Preceded by Stephen Jardine |
Male co-host (The Hour, STV) September 2011 - October 2011 |
Succeeded by N/A |