He then joined Liberty Radio and the Classic Gold network. In 2010 David joined the team of presenters on Sky music station, Vintage TV.

During the Seventies he compered tours with David Cassidy and the Bay City Rollers.

In 1995 he was headhunted by London`s Melody Radio where he presented the breakfast show for four years until the station was sold in 1998. He signed up for hospital radio during his misspent “yoof” and also ran what became a reasonably successful mobile disco business ultimately catering to the […], If you want to meet a radio man, let us introduce you to Peter Antony who’s career was a radio DJ’s dream. In the Seventies David had prominent roles in several Benny Hill Shows for Thames TV and in 1975 appeared in The Tommy Cooper Show series. By the time he joined Capital Gold in 1988 the number of stations taking the show had risen to twenty. He has a passion for radio that once led to him walking out of BBC Radio 2 because the music was too “geriatric”. He then joined Capital Gold in November 1988 to present its daily 10 am to 1 pm show. Scroll down for highlights of David's career through the decades. His afternoon show on Radio Two ran until the end of 1986 when he quit the station after complaining the music policy was `geriatric`. In addition to that, he also presented a weekly oldies show which was heard on various ILR stations around the UK. As a lifelong supporter of Fulham Football Club, David was delighted to become the club`s matchday MC in 1996, a post he held for 18 seasons. His autobiography, The Music Game, was published in 1986. This was usually heard on a Sunday afternoon. In 2010 David joined the team of presenters on Sky music station, Vintage TV. He is usually known as 'Diddy David Hamilton' which was a name given to him by the English comedian Ken Dodd. In 2012 he danced on Let`s Dance for Sport Relief on  BBC 1 and appeared on Loose Women (ITV), The One Show (BBC), and in celebrity editions of Pointless and Antiques Road Trip (BBC). In 2014 he appeared as a guest on ITV`s Saturday night series, Amazing Greys... By the middle of the decade he was hosting shows for BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey and presented the David Hamilton Show, a 10 week chat show series for Big Centre TV, Birmingham. He joined the then-new Thames Television as an announcer in 1968, subsequently hosting many shows for them including Miss TV Times, TV Times Gala Awards, The World Disco Dance Championships, as well as many outside broadcasts, circus and sports shows. Throughout the decade he made guest appearances on TV shows like Blankety Blank, Celebrity Squares, Punchlines, The Generation Game and Give Us A Clue. Later in 1962 David returned to ABC TV. On ITV  David played the ringmaster in Chipperfield`s Circus for several years and hosted the World Disco Dance Championships in 1978 and 1979. Leaving school at 17, he joined ATV as a continuity script-writer and in 1957 scripted the ATV Sunday night film series, Portrait Of A Star. So David is a music man to the core – his sense of fun and warm personality will bring yet another “star” into the UDJ team. David`s show, The Million Sellers, was heard on Splash for six years, during which time David was a director of the station. By the late '60s Hamilton was presenting many shows for BBC radio, including Music Through Midnight, Roundabout, Pop Inn, Radio 1 Club and shows featuring the music of Frank Chacksfield. For the millions of listeners who enjoy ROSKO with his American accent and international ‘flava’ deliver a really great eclectic selection of upbeat music combined with his insights to local, national and international news, he is the […], Paul’s love of Radio started when he was 9 years old and the proud owner of a pocket AM transistor, discovering the delights of Radio Luxembourg & RNI at nights. Later that year he introduced The Beatles live at the Urmston Show in Manchester and in 1964 compered The Rolling Stones at the Palace Theatre, Manchester. While at Radio One David was voted one of Britain`s top 3 DJ`s two years running. In 2000 he joined PrimeTime Radio, presenting the weekday mid-morning show, where he remained until its demise in 2006. For seven years he was the main host of one of the earliest satellite TV stations, Lifestyle. From 2004 to 2006, he was heard on various radio stations around the UK, presenting his Million Sellers show, which would usually go out on a Saturday lunchtime, and was repeated at midnight. During the 1970s Hamilton was also the match day presenter for the Reading Racers Speedway Club. If you want to know more about David and his amazing career – go take a look at his website: www.davidhamilton.eu/biography. He appeared alongside comedians Benny Hill and Tommy Cooper and hosted Thames TV's showcase weeks on television in New York City and Los Angeles. During the Seventies he compered tours with David Cassidy and the Bay City Rollers. There were two series, in 1967 and 1968, and they were shown on  the ITV  network on Saturday nights. His first show for Radio One was Family Choice in 1967. David started the Tens with appearances on Cash in the Celebrity Attic, Celebrity Eggheads and The Bob Monkhouse Collection (all BBC) and in the review of Fulham`s route to Hamburg for the Europa League Final on Channel 5. Hamilton was one of the final people on the network when it closed on 24 January 1993, appearing on the final segment wishing viewers goodbye. One of the Miss TV Times shows was number one in the national TV ratings. He presented the final edition of Housewives' Choice in 1967 and was first heard on Radio 1 in November 1967, presenting Family Choice. The series ran on the ITV network for four years. [1], In February 2012 at the age of 73 he danced to the 1988 hit "Push It" with fellow DJ Tony Blackburn as contestants on the charity show Let's Dance for Sport Relief. David started the Tens with appearances on Cash in the Celebrity Attic, Celebrity Eggheads and The Bob Monkhouse Collection (all BBC) and in the review of Fulham`s route to Hamburg for the Europa League Final on Channel 5. On leaving school Hamilton became a script-writer for the TV series Portrait of a Star. Hamilton was the compere for the Wembley Lions Speedway team in 1970 and 1971. Called up for National Service in the R.A.F., he was posted to Cologne, home of the British Forces Network in Germany. In 1976 he worked on television in America when Thames invited him to be their programme host and newsreader when they showcased a week of British programmes on WOR TV in New York. In 1960 he became an in-vision television announcer for ABC TV (Associated British Corporation) based in Didsbury, Manchester and appeared with Ken Dodd in the TV series Doddy's Music Box, acquiring the nickname, 'Diddy'.

Called up for National Service in the R.A.F., he was posted to Cologne, home of the British Forces Network in Germany. There, at the age of 19, he became a teenage rock `n` roll disc-jockey with a weekly show on forces radio. On BBC TV David hosted the Saturday night Light Entertainment series, Seaside Special, and many editions of Top Of The Pops, as well as a cameo role in Monty Python`s Flying Circus.

David`s show, The Million Sellers, was heard on Splash for six years, during which time David was a director of the station. Two days later his face was the first to be seen on the new Thames TV in London. David`s Nineties` TV appearances included Happy Families, Talking Telephone Numbers, You Bet, What`s in the Box?, 15 to 1, Shooting Stars and Pebble Mill, as well as many shows on satellite TV. In 2012 he danced on Let`s Dance for Sport Relief on  BBC 1 and appeared on Loose Women (ITV), The One Show (BBC), and in celebrity editions of Pointless and Antiques Road Trip (BBC). He then joined Liberty Radio and the Classic Gold network. The award was presented to him on Tyne-Tees TV by Dame Vera Lynn. Copyright © 2020, David Hamilton. In April 2012, Hamilton was one of the launch presenters on The Wireless, an Internet-based radio station operated by Age UK and aimed at older people throughout the UK.[4]. On leaving school Hamilton became a script-writer for the TV series Portrait of a Star. David appeared as himself in several films including Tiffany Jones, Home Before Midnight and Confessions of a Pop Performer. Each show ended with an interview spot with Tommy and David called Fez To Fez.

He is heard regularly on BBC Sussex and BBC Surrey. All rights reserved. His first UK broadcast was as the host of The Beat Show from the Playhouse Theatre, Manchester, in 1962. At the beginning of the Eighties David hosted Up For The Cup, a talent show with a football theme which aired on Saturday nights on ITV. Later he hosted ATV's Saturday night series Up For the Cup, and four series of ITV's hangman-style game show All Clued Up. EUFA also booked him as the English matchday presenter in Hamburg. David`s Nineties` TV appearances included Happy Families, Talking Telephone Numbers, You Bet, What`s in the Box?, 15 to 1, Shooting Stars and Pebble Mill, as well as many shows on satellite TV. During that time he has MC`d three sets of promotion celebrations and several seasons in the Premier League and has seen the club rise from the lower divisions to arguably the best league in the world. During that time he has presented over 12,000 radio shows for BBC and commercial stations … It's called the Breakfast Show. While still a pupil at Glastonbury Road Grammar School at St. Helier in Surrey he wrote a weekly column in the national football magazine, Soccer Star, for two years from the age of 15. EUFA also booked him as the English matchday presenter in Hamburg. In June, 1973, David was given a 3-hour daily show on BBC Radio One. In 2019 Hamilton celebrated 60 years in broadcasting, and today is in demand as lunch/dinner speaker, talking about his experiences and many of the celebrities he has worked with. He has hosted shows at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium, and headlined in four major pantomimes. Early in the new millennium David helped to launch several new radio stations.