Background
Born in Inverurie, his mother and father were a speech therapist and a Northern College lecturer respectively.
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Chris Harvey
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He attended Wormit Primary School & Madras College in Saint Andrews and studied at Aberdeen University, but dropped out after a year. Around this time, Harvey attended Dundee College and obtained qualifications in journalism and later, an Higher National Certificate in Radio Broadcasting.
Career
After leaving university, Harvey made a living as a sailing & skiing instructor in the United Kingdom, Europe and the Caribbean and worked casually in the hotel trade as a waiter and barman. As part of his radio course, he worked at Radio Tay for a year. Then in 1997, Harvey joined the British Broadcasting Corporation and for six months, presented the breakfast news programme Around Orkney on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Orkney.
Later in the year, he switched to British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Humberside and became a football & rugby league commentator.
He then joined Scottish Television (now STV Central) and latterly, in April 2000, Grampian Television (now STV North) as a sports presenter on North Tonight. He later became a news reporter and presenter for the programme.
He was also the Northern Correspondent for STV"s now-defunct The Five Thirty Show and STV Sports Centre and a presenter/producer for STV North"s online video blog Northern Exposure.
