Allan Lake - Career

Career

Lake started his radio career at Isle of Wight Radio, working as the teaboy on the Saturday sports show and as producer for the station's veteran phone-in presenter Alex Dyke. This led to his own Saturday evening show, but he was let go by the station after broadcasting a controversial feature named "Bin Laden reads the Bible". After this, he moved to neighbouring station Power FM, before leaving the south coast for Hull to present Late Night Lake at Viking FM. He also had a less than 28 day stint on a station called '106.8 The Noise' which closed after broadcasting offensive material during the day. Whilst working at Galaxy Manchester he generated more controversy after comments he made about Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus.

After a stint at Liverpool's Juice FM, he moved to London and GCap Media's Capital Disney for an evening show named "In On The Lake" from January 2005 to August 2006. Lake was then moved to the Breakfast show on sister station Core. After eight months, the show ended as the station switched to a non-stop music format. During this tame, Lake was also a regular cover presenter for Capital 95.8. After guesting on 'Generation Mix', he has covered shows for GCap's Coast 96.3 and Red Dragon FM, where he once again generated more controversy over his sacking, after getting listeners to call the programme controller to try to persuade him to hire him, who in turn rehired him. During his time on the Evening show, Lake caused Red Dragon to have its building lease reviewed after he ordered a live cow to be delivered to the studios.

Lake left his evening show on Red Dragon on 13 March 2008 after his show was to be replaced by a new GCap networked evening show Music Control, leaving the station on 16 March after his last Sunday "Takeover" show. After leaving Red Dragon, he covered on Xfm South Wales and Oxford's FM 107.9, before joining Invicta FM. Lake has since left Invicta FM, due to networked shows replacing his Sunday show, and has recently covered at Kerrang Radio. Lae then went to Q Radio, presenting Saturday 10am to 1pm. He then presented weekday mornings at Nation Radio before leaving to work at the then recently rebranded Absolute Radio, previously known as Virgin Radio. He joined on 27 September 2008 presenting over nights Lake had his contract at Absolute Radio terminated in April 2009, just 7 months into the life of the new station and Lake's tenure on overnights. He was censured by OFCOM for promoting e-cigarettes sent by a manufacturer and was noted to have constantly referred to the product on air. Ofcom found there ‘was no editorial justification for the frequency and prominence of these references’ and the broadcaster in breach of rules 10.3 and 10.4 of the broadcasting code. Absolute Radio in their public comments on the issue described the comments as ‘an ill-judged editorial choice on the part of the presenter’.

As of late March 2010, Lake has presented on Nation Radio, in South Wales. He had a short tenure of a few days presenting the breakfast show, between 7am & 11am, before moving to the evening show, which broadcasts Sunday to Thursday from 7pm until 10pm.

Lake now does a weekend show geared to "general audiences", and syndicated to various stations, through his production company No Rules Radio. whilst also doing a thrice weekly uncensored comedy talk show streamed on the adult website RedTube, joined by co-host/writer 'Fat' Steve.

He can now be heard on Fire Radio weekdays 3:00pm - 7:00pm.