Richard Keys

About

Richard Keys is an English sports presenter.

His career started in London in 1976 when he began working for the Fleet Street Sports Agency Hayter’s until 1978, when he moved to Liverpool and worked at Radio City as a football commentator.

Sky Sports

Keys was one of the presenters for the Sports Channel on British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) in spring 1990. When BSB merged with Sky in 1991, the channel was renamed Sky Sports. He presented TV-am for the last time on 28 December 1990 before leaving for Sky Sports.

He 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, which coincided with Sky gaining rights for the UEFA Champions League. Later he fronted all of Sky Sports’ Champions League coverage.

Other Broadcasting Work

In June 2013, Al Jazeera agreed a contract with Keys and Andy Gray. They present English and European football coverage from Doha, Qatar, including the Premier League, UEFA Champions League, and FA Cup.

Coverage started for the 2013–14 season while they continued to present their TalkSport show from Qatar.

Keys and Gray are the mainstays of the football coverage on BeIN Sports channels, which broadcasts all 380 Premier League games per season.

In 2003, Keys has received an Honorary title from Coventry University (Honorary Doctor of Letters) for outstanding services to sports broadcasting.

In 2012, Keys and Andy Gray received the best sports programme prize for their talkSPORT show at the Sony Radio Academy Awards. He has also received a variety of best sports presenter awards from different publications.