Daniel Meirion Walker is a journalist, newsreader, and television presenter from England. From 2009 to 2021, he hosted Football Focus, and from 2016 to 2022, he hosted BBC Breakfast.
He also hosts shows on BBC Radio 5 Live and has hosted Sportsday on the BBC News Channel and BBC World News, in addition to reporting for Final Score and Match of the Day on a regular basis.
Walker’s Welsh mother gave birth to him in Crawley, Sussex.
He attended Ifield Primary School, Three Bridges Middle School, and Hazelwick Secondary School in Crawley until he was eighteen years old.
In 1998, he graduated from the University of Sheffield with a BA (Hons) in History and an MA in Journalism Studies 1999.
Dan Walker Career in Radio and Television
Walker began his professional radio career by working at Sheffield’s Hallam FM. After winning a competition for young sports commentators, he earned work experience.
Walker began a four-year run as a sports broadcaster and analyst for Manchester’s Key 103 radio station in 1999.
He hosted the regular midweek sports show and also served as the resident sports correspondent for Mike Toolan’s breakfast show throughout his stint at the station.
Walker began his career in television with a six-month stint with Granada Television in Manchester, where he worked as a pundit on the Football League Review show before joining the BBC regional news show North West Tonight.
He was nominated for a number of awards during this time and won the Royal Television Society Sports Award for Regional Sports Presenter of the Year in 2005.
Because he was covering the Champions League final in Istanbul, he was unable to attend the ceremony.
Walker moved to London in 2006 and began presenting and reporting at Wimbledon, The Open, Aintree, Ascot, and the Epsom Derby, as well as the Six Nations, in 2008.
Has Dan Walker Left BBC?
Yes. In his last show Dan Walker, who bowed out of BBC Breakfast after six years, told viewers it had been “a genuine joy” to host the show.
Walker is departing to become the news anchor for Channel 5, where he will also host other shows.
