Dominic Anthony Byrne (born 10 November 1972) is a British newsreader, presenter, songwriter and choreographer. He currently works on the Chris Moyles Breakfast show on Radio X, having previously worked as the newsreader for Capital London on the Capital FM Breakfast Show. Prior to this he worked with the BBC from 1997 to 2012, as part of the on-air team on The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 from 2004 to 2012, working as the newsreader and contributing to the show's zoo format.
Byrne worked as a newsreader elsewhere on Radio 1, and presented on the BBC News Channel. He runs his own voice training business called Open Mouth Productions. During 2014 Byrne presented a number of shows on BBC Radio Kent covering other presenters, including Breakfast and Mid-Morning. He returned to the new format of The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X in 2015, reading the news and contributing to show discussions and features.
Elsewhere for the BBC he worked as a newsreader for Jo Whiley's later Fearne Cotton's mid-morning weekday show on Radio 1. From 2007 he presented the Newsbeat's Oddbox video clip show on BBC News. This was a four-minute video which looked at the week's strangest news, presented by Dominic Byrne (and Natalie Jamieson when he was away). It was available to watch at BBC Online, on the BBC Red Button and on the BBC News channel. It was announced on 6 September 2012 episode that the broadcast on the following week would be the final ever Odd Box.[2] On 14 September 2012, The Oddbox's final episode was shown on BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat Website. In addition, Byrne presented Dragon's Den Online, the online spin-off from the Dragons' Den TV programme.[3] In 2014, he was one of three hosts on Factomania.
Other projects
In December 2011 Dominic Byrne championed the song Dominick the Donkey by Italian American singer Lou Monte on The Chris Moyles Show, helping it achieve a peak chart position of number 3 on the UK Top 40 during Christmas 2011.
Byrne has worked on various voice-over projects. He provided the voice of an alien called Zorst in the CBeebies show Space Pirates,[4] and as Captain Emergency on Peppa Pig. He does voice-overs for the entertainment channel Watch. In 2010, Byrne narrated children's storybooks for mobile phone applications under the iStorytime brand – the titles which Byrne narrated include Invisible Alligators (written and illustrated by Hayes Roberts), Inca Dink, the Great Houndini (written, illustrated and also narrated by M. Nicole van Dam), and Olivia the Octopus (written and illustrated by Damien Clenet).[5]
On 8 March 2013, it was announced that Byrne has joined Capital FM London, to read the news on their flagship breakfast show.[6]
Byrne owns a company called Open Mouth Productions, through which he provides vocal training for both corporate and private individuals.[7]
In a video recorded for Radio X's YouTube channel, Byrne played guitar with the Stereophonics alongside Chris Moyles on the drums.[8]
Music career
In January 2023, Byrne released a song called Holy Water (featuring Abigail DB) which he had written at least two decades prior. With the support of a campaign on Moyles' breakfast show, the single reached number one on the iTunes chart,[9] and ninety-seven in the official charts.[10] It was the second highest new entry in the UK Big Top 40 chart, at number 23.[11] On 22 May 2023, Byrne released the single "Happier Now", again featuring singer Abigail DB.[12]
^various references to these books exist on the web, including the iStorytime eReader website itself at http://www.istorytime.com/ and various eReader book reviews which delineate the narration credits such as "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 31 August 2012.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
