Vicki Blight
| Vicki Blight | |
| Radio DJ | |
| Current station: | Absolute Radio/Absolute 80s/Absolute Radio 90s/Absolute Radio 00s |
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| Roles:
Absolute Radio: Saturday 6am-8am/Sunday 6am-10am; Absolute 80s: 1pm to 4pm Sunday; Absolute Radio 90s: 5pm-9pm Monday to Thursday, 5pm-7pm Friday & 2pm-6pm Saturday; and Absolute Radio 00s: 10am-1pm Monday to Friday. |
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| Previous stations: | Red Dragon FM, Heart 106, Century FM, BBC Radio 1 |
Victoria "Vicki" Blight (born 1981 in Plymouth) is a radio DJ based in the United Kingdom. Blight has presented shows on Heart 106, a regional radio station broadcast to the East Midlands, BBC Radio 1 and currently Absolute Radio.[1] The name Blight is of Cornish origin.[2]
Early radio career
Vicki Blight was involved in student radio at Cardiff University, where she went on to win Best Female Presenter at the Radio 1 Student Radio Award in 2002.[3]
From there, she became a presenter on Red Dragon FM, a commercial radio station based in South Wales, in 2003. After graduating, she joined independent station Century FM.[3]
Heart 106
Vicki Blight has presented various shows on Nottingham-based Heart 106, including a weekday afternoon slot and a topical phone-in show.
She has additionally presented an overnight slot and a weekend slot on the station, and, in under a year, she became the co-presenter of the lucrative breakfast show.[3]
BBC Radio 1
In 2007, she was awarded with the Friday Early Breakfast slot on the station, and presented the slot for a month.
She was rumoured to be the new Radio 1 Surgery presenter on BBC Radio 1;[4] these rumours have since been proved false when Kelly Osbourne was unveiled as the new presenter in September 2007.[5]
Absolute Radio
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