Danny Cox is a British radio presenter and journalist.
He currently presents music-based shows on Virgin Radio Anthems[1] and Virgin Radio 80s Plus;[2] he is also a journalist for BBC News Streaming, a presenter of The Newsroom on the BBC World Service, and a presenter at BBC Radio Oxford.[3]
Cox's career began at BBC Radio Leicester.[4]
In the 1980s, Cox presented the chart show on Radio Trent in Nottingham.[5] The show involved a countdown of the best-selling pop music songs of the week, with some or all of the songs being played in full.
In the latter half of the 1990s, he worked as a presenter at Fox FM (now known as Heart Oxfordshire) in Oxfordshire; during this time, he lost his fiancee, the broadcaster Sue McGarry, to suicide.[6]
Cox launched the Oxford Channel in 1999.
In 2006, Cox was working as a presenter at BBC Radio Oxford, presenting on weekdays between 10am and 1pm.[7] In 2008, Louisa Hannan, also a presenter at BBC Radio Oxford at the time, joined Cox for a new mid-morning show on the station, "Daytimes with Danny and Lou". The show was created as a result of feedback from members of the BBC Radio Oxford audience, some of which was gathered at a special event.[8] The show included music, consumer advice and other content.[9] Cox and Hannan presented their last programme together in 2009.[10] Hannan continued to present the programme after Cox's departure from BBC Radio Oxford in 2009. In 2009, Cox was also working as a voiceover artist.[11]
In 2009, Cox was appointed Station Controller and presenter of the morning show at Mix 96 in Buckinghamshire.[12]
As of 2016, Cox was a sports presenter at BBC Radio Oxford.[13] He also presented the station's Saturday afternoon sports programme at this time. Cox is still a presenter of sports programmes for the station.[14] In addition, in the 2010s, Cox presented some travel bulletins for the station, live from the Traffic Control Centre of Oxfordshire.
Since 2014, Cox has been at the BBC World Service as a presenter of The Newsroom (a programme featuring reports from BBC journalists from around the world about the latest news stories); he has also presented BBC Outside Source (a programme featuring in-depth coverage of current news stories from across the world). As part of his duties as a presenter of The Newsroom, Cox also presents the BBC's Global News Podcast.
Cox is a presenter on Virgin Radio Anthems, a radio station broadcasting nationally on DAB+ in the UK, and Virgin Radio 80s Plus, which broadcasts to some of the UK on digital radio. He joined Virgin Radio Anthems no later than 2021.[15]
Cox is also a Senior Journalist at BBC News Streaming.[16]
Cox has been the sole voiceover for BBC Radio Derby.