DUBAI: A British radio presenter has died of a suspected heart attack while presenting his breakfast show.
Tim Gough was working in his home studio for GenX Radio Suffolk on Monday, the station said. Listeners heard music stop as the 55-year-old collapsed. It resarted several minutes later.
James Hazell, managing director of GenX Radio Suffolk said everyone was “heart-broken by the news.”
“Tim has been on the radio since the 80s and had come out of radio retirement to fully involve himself in our project, to bring local commercial radio back to his beloved Suffolk,” he said.
Gough began his broadcasting career at Radio Orwell in 1986, and went on to present the breakfast show on Saxon Radio and SGR-FM, as well as appearing on Smooth Radio and various other stations in the East Midlands, according to The Guardian.
Hazell said he had considered closing the station but he was determined to continue after receiving “hundreds of loving messages.”
“Tim was part of building GenX Radio and I will not allow his hard work to amount to nothing,” said Hazell. “We are going to create the best radio station we possibly can, that Suffolk is proud of. It will be Tim’s legacy.”
