Joanna Russell
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Jo Russell is an English radio presenter and DJ currently working for BRMB
Brmb
brmb is a local radio station based in Birmingham, UK, owned and operated by Orion Media. The station broadcasts on 96.4 FM, DAB Digital Radio in the West Midlands and online...

 in Birmingham.

Biography

Russell worked for an insurance company and Coca Cola among other roles before beginning her broadcasting career at York Hospital Radio. She later moved onto hosting weekend shows at Stray FM in Harrogate and a full time presenting role at York's Minster FM
Minster FM
Minster FM is an independent commercial local radio station based in Dunnington near York, Yorkshire, England and covering the city of York and surrounding areas...

.

Russell spent over ten years co-presenting Trent FM
Trent FM
Trent FM was an Independent Local Radio station which broadcast to Nottinghamshire. The station merged with two other East Midlands stations, Leicester Sound and Ram FM to form Capital FM East Midlands on Monday 3 January 2011.-History:Launched on 3 July 1975 as Radio Trent and based in a...

's award-winning breakfast show with Andy "Twiggy" Twigge, who had previously worked alongside her at a local station in Derby. During this time, Russell won various awards for her work including four Sony Awards, the 2008 Arqiva Commercial Radio Presenter of the Year and Best Breakfast Show at the 2007 European Radio Awards. In September 2008, she joined Absolute Radio as the host of a weekend mid-morning show, which ran for around thirteen months.

A month after her departure from Absolute, Russell joined BRMB to host its flagship weekday breakfast show, The Jo Show. In November 2010, following a break from work due to illness, she began presenting the station's weekday drivetime show, alongside producer Mark "Sparky" Colerangle.

During 2011, Russell also presented Back to the 80s, a weekly Saturday night show for the East Midlands regional radio station Gem 106.
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