Career
Hobson was also a continuity announcer for ATV in Birmingham and was one of the presenters of the regional news programme ATV Today. After leaving ATV, Hobson co-presented Not Foreign Women Only, a regional magazine programme for TVS, with Jill Cochrane. He also presented and co-created the format for the game show That"s My Dog for TSW, which ran for four years on the Independent Television network from 1984.