The host for the Sports Business Awards 2026 ceremony will be Colin Murray

Colin hosts Countdown on C4 and presents Sunday mornings on 5 Live, having previously hosted Fighting Talk and numerous sports programming.

He was the face of Quest’s Football League Coverage, and for many years anchored the BDO Lakeside World Darts Championship on BBC plus Eurosport’s Snooker Coverage.

He hosted the popular Friday night sports preview show, Kicking Off as part of 5 Live Sport and presented talkSPORT’s mid morning programme Monday to Friday for 3 years, tripling the audience in the process.

In the build up to the London Olympics he interviewed all living British Gold Medallists for 5 Live’s acclaimed ‘Gold Rush’.

He has maintained a written journalistic career, alongside his broadcasting. His first novel ‘A Random History of Football’, sold so well in hardback it went to paperback and he is widely published in the print media. Earlier on in his career he co-published his own cutting-edge music magazine Blank

Colin originally came to prominence on BBC Radio 1, hosting many shows and forging a successful partnership with Edith Bowman, eventually co-hosting the weekday afternoon slot ‘The Colin and Edith Show’. He won his first coveted Sony Award for Music Broadcaster Of The Year during his final few years at Radio 1 when presenting the 10pm – midnight slot, indulging his love of Alternative Music.

He began his career as a news reporter, cutting his teeth at the Ulster News Letter. He was crowned IPR Northern Ireland Entertainment Journalist of the Year 2002, and it was this journalistic ethos that helped him win another Sony Gold The Feature Award – for a documentary he made with All Out Productions entitled ‘The Trouble With Drugs’.