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Rick Houghton was born in Liverpool England in 1973. He became involved in broadcasting at the tender age of 14; answering phones and making tea at his local BBC station Radio Merseyside.

Rick pursued his passion for radio and at the age of 16 became the youngest full time commercial radio presenter in the UK – presenting the evening show at Plymouth Sound in Devon. This was quickly followed by a move back North and after work on Rock FM in Preston Rick was poached to present evenings at Liverpool’s Radio City. The show proved popular and broke many audience records. Radio City was one of the biggest stations outside London and during his time there Rick also became involved in television presenting on BSB. Rick was again headhunted to present afternoon drive at Key 103 in Manchester and listening figures for the show reached an all time high.

The next challenge was programme management and at age 23 Rick was asked to launch the first commercial CHR station in Dubai. Channel 4 radio became an instant success and Rick was responsible for all aspects of output, he also trained a fledgling sales team and created brand identities. In total Rick spent 10 years in the Middle East pioneering commercial radio in the region. This included the launching of two national stations and the first International Radio Conference in the region in 2006. It was also during this time that Rick became the voice of Formula One in Asia, commentating on two F1 seasons for the Ten Sports television network.

Rick was tempted back to the UK to once again join Radio City in Liverpool to present afternoon drive. It was after this contract that Rick formed Talkabout Media a radio production company supplying programming and syndication to stations in the UK and beyond.

Rick celebrated 20 years as ‘on air talent’ in 2009 and continues to present at major market radio stations on a freelance basis.

He is a programming consultant and senior lecturer at the National Broadcasting School in the UK. Talkabout media produces radio programming for Bauer Media and a syndicated chart show in the Middle East.

More recently Talkabout Media launched Red 7 Films a film production company specializing in video content for radio stations. Rick1fm (talk) 23:03, 10 August 2012 (UTC)

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