Sports Presenting
Keys presented Sky Sports coverage of Premier League football since the league's inception in 1992. He was the presenter of the flagship Super Sunday and also presented Sky's Monday Night Football until Ian Payne took over in 2003, which coincided with Sky gaining rights for the UEFA Champions League. Sky broadcast their 1,000th Premier League game on 10 May 2007 with Keys fronting the majority of them. Taking into account all the other competitions, Keys had already clocked up a personal milestone of 1,000 games (558 Premiership fixtures, 134 FA Cup and 57 League Cup ties, 71 England internationals, 20 Scottish matches and 11 Charity Shields) back in 2002 and was given a Merit Award by the Premier League sponsor's Barclaycard in recognition.
He presented UEFA Euro 2008 for Al Jazeera Sports.
In November 2008, Sky Sports was criticised by Roy Keane who named Keys by person in his criticism, "I was asked last week by ITV to do the Celtic game," he said. "A couple of weeks before that I was asked to do the United game against Celtic at Old Trafford. I think I've done it once for Sky. Never again. I'd rather go to the dentist. You're sitting there with people like Richard Keys and they're trying to sell something that's not there.
In late 2011, Keys returned to television broadcasting as he became a presenter on BoxNation.
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