Tam Cowan is a
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
footballAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
journalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, radio and television presenter. Educated at Braidhurst High School in Motherwell, he writes a twice weekly article in the
Daily RecordThe Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. It had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland for many years with a paid circulation in August 2011 of 307,794 . It is now outsold by its arch-rival the Scottish Sun which in September 2010 had a circulation of 339,586 in...
newspaper and was presenter of Scottish football comedy TV show
OffsideOffside was a Scottish comedy football television show aired on BBC One Scotland and was presented by Scottish Football journalist Tam Cowan.The programme was axed in 2007, for unknown reasons.- Jonathan Watson :...
.
Tam Cowan is a
ScottishScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
footballAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
journalistA journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, radio and television presenter. Educated at Braidhurst High School in Motherwell, he writes a twice weekly article in the
Daily RecordThe Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. It had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland for many years with a paid circulation in August 2011 of 307,794 . It is now outsold by its arch-rival the Scottish Sun which in September 2010 had a circulation of 339,586 in...
newspaper and was presenter of Scottish football comedy TV show
OffsideOffside was a Scottish comedy football television show aired on BBC One Scotland and was presented by Scottish Football journalist Tam Cowan.The programme was axed in 2007, for unknown reasons.- Jonathan Watson :...
.
He reviews Scottish restaurants in the Daily Record based on a score of 25 by considering 5 factors of the restaurant: Food, Service, Toilets, Decor and Value.
Cowan also presents the comedy football radio show
Off the Ball along with fellow Daily Record journalist and good friend
Stuart CosgroveStuart Cosgrove is a Scottish journalist, broadcaster and television executive. As a journalist Cosgrove served on the NME and The Face during the 1980s, before joining Channel 4 in April 1994, serving for eight years as Controller of Arts and Entertainment and currently as Head of Programmes...
. It is also well known that Cowan is a fan of
MotherwellMotherwell Football & Athletic Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. The club compete in the Scottish Premier League and are one of only seven teams to have remained in this league since it was founded in 1998...
. Cowan has also taken to live stand-up comedy by taking "Offside" to the stage in 2002. The show was recorded live at the
King's Theatre, GlasgowThe King's Theatre is located in Glasgow, Scotland. It was built for Howard & Wyndham Ltd under its chairman Baillie Michael Simons as a sister theatre of their Theatre Royal in the city and was designed by Frank Matcham, opening in 1904. The theatre is primarily a receiving house for touring...
for DVD.
In February 2010, Cowan presented
It's Never Too Late, a six-part documentary series for STV on literacy and numeracy difficulties among adults. Cowan was also a guest presenter for STV's overnight interactive strand
The NightshiftThe Nightshift is an overnight regional television programme broadcast on STV in Northern and Central Scotland.The service, broadcast live from STV's transmission control centre at Pacific Quay in Glasgow, features highlights of archived STV programmes, STV News & ITV News bulletins, showbiz news...
and rejoined the station on Tuesday 20 September 2011 as a main co-presenter for the lifestyle magazine show
The Hour, alongside
Michelle McManusMichelle McManus is a Scottish singer-songwriter, actress, radio DJ and television presenter, who rose to fame after winning the second series of the UK talent show Pop Idol....
. The programme was axed four weeks after a move to a weekly prime time slot and a revamp of the programme led to low ratings.
External links
- Tam Cowan at The Daily Record
The Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow. It had been the best-selling daily paper in Scotland for many years with a paid circulation in August 2011 of 307,794 . It is now outsold by its arch-rival the Scottish Sun which in September 2010 had a circulation of 339,586 in...