Life and career

Before his career had begun, Peter's family were already well known in Wales and the West of England. His father, Bruce Lewis, had already been a hugely popular presenter for Television Wales and West (TWW), where Peter began announcing during the mid to late 1960s. During this period, he became one of the youngest people on British television to present his own programme - it was Movie Magazine (the precursor to Cinema and Film Night) - an original idea devised by his father Bruce and Peter Duval.

Lewis joined London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...

 during its opening month in August 1968 and around the same time, freelanced for Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television

Yorkshire Television, now officially known as ITV Yorkshire and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is a British television broadcaster and the contractor for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network...

. Later, he chose to concentrate on his work for LWT and became the first person to broadcast from the company's then-new headquarters on the South Bank of the river Thames in 1971.

In 1974 he helped to launch the first independent commercial radio station in the North East of England - Metro Radio

Metro Radio

Metro Radio is an independent local radio station based in Newcastle upon Tyne and broadcasting to Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Northumberland. The station's output is principally contemporary pop and dance music...

. Peter was the station's first programming controller while his father was the first managing director and wrote the original proposal to the IBA

IBA

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 for Metro and later for GWR

GWR

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 in Swindon.

By 1977, Lewis had been made chief announcer with LWT - a role which he remained in for 20 years until leaving the station in 1996. He returned to the station briefly in 1998 to record continuity links for the 30th anniversary weekend.

During his time at LWT, he was a regular newsreader for London News Headlines (later LWT News Headlines) between 1982 and 1988. Lewis also announced for HTV West on weekdays.

Peter then moved to Tampa, Florida after a brief stint in Houston, Texas. Lewis now runs a management consultancy company in Florida

Florida

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