Scotland Excel Supplier Excellence Awards 2023

Dougie Vipond

Presenter and live event host Dougie Vipond has fronted sport, travel and rural affairs programmes on television and radio. He has presented a range of sporting events including Scottish Cup Finals, International Rugby, Melrose 7s, World Championship Mountain Biking, Three Day Eventing and Bowls World Championship. He can also be seen covering Scotland’s nightly sports news on Reporting Scotland, he  presents  BBC Scotland’s sport news output on Sportscene & Reporting Scotland. He also works as a reporter on Radio Scotland’s nightly football magazine, 90 Minutes.

He also presents BBC Scotland’s The Adventure Show and the rural affairs series, Landward. He has also been a presenter on BBC1’s The Holiday Show, among others, and even stood in for Richard Madeley on ITV’s This Morning

His love of sport and getting his hands dirty, resulted in BBC Scotland commissioning an adventure sports series called Backcountry With Dougie Vipond in which Dougie presented and took part in a variety of outdoor sports and competitions.

In a past life, Dougie was founder member and drummer with the band Deacon Blue with whom he recorded and toured for eight years. He still plays with the band when commitments allow.

Over the years, Dougie has worked across many broadcast genres including six years reporting for BBC’s Holiday, Summer Holiday and Holidays Out programmes. He co-presented The Kirsty Wark Show and The Big Country, BBC Scotland’s guide to leisure activities north of the border and spent two weeks as guest presenter on ITV’s This Morning.

In addition to his work at the BBC, Dougie has presented live coverage of the World Bowls Championship for Eurosport.

His expertise in music has helped when presenting The Score for Channel 4, Och Around The Clock, a history of Jock n Roll and T in the Park for BBC Scotland.

Even though much of his time is taken up with Sports programmes these days, Dougie still finds time to branch out into other areas. He completed a second series of Take It From The Top, a features series for Radio Scotland.