Background
He was born in South Shields and attended Corby Hall School in Sunderland, which was a Jesuit run grammar school (now Street Aidan"s Catholic Academy).
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Career
He then worked for A. Reyrolle & Company, an engineering company based in Hebburn that manufactured switchgear for power stations. In his twenties Coyne was a presenter of the British Broadcasting Corporation radio programme Children"s Hour and he made his first television appearance interviewing a miner for Tyne Tees Television in 1958 and was the first news presenter for the station in 1959. He was then a presenter for the British Broadcasting Corporation regional news programme Midlands Today throughout the 1970s and 1980s, making 4,000 appearances and was on the first edition of Nationwide and made many further appearances on the programme which was broadcast nationally.
He also presented Songs of Praise and in 1980 he returned to Tyne Tees Television to present the nightly news magazine programme Northern Life.
During his career Coyne interviewed many notable people including Catherine Cookson and Muhammad Ali and he was the voice of the geordie gamekeeper, Gordon Armstrong, on the British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 soap opera The Archers for 3 years.
Membership
He enjoyed acting and was a member of the Westovian Theatre Company.
