Play Radio UK
From August 2007, Boyd co-presented a Sunday night show on Play Radio UK, an internet radio station. In January 2008 he moved to Original 106 FM where he hosted the weekday breakfast show until September, before returning to Play Radio UK broadcasting a general talk and phone in show weekday late nights and via podcast, billed as "Global News Talk".
Boyd provided summer cover for Jon Gaunt on the Sun Talk, an internet-based radio station, and for a week in September 2009 he filled in for Steve Berry on 106.1 Rock Radio Manchester's Breakfast Show.
In 2009 he launched a company called Digital Sport Radio, which makes radio for major sporting clubs and brands.
He makes it clear that he is still keen on the talk radio concept, stating "I’m still hopeful that we’ll get a proper Talk service in the UK before I go fully senile."
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