Radio DJ dies of heart attack on air!

SUFFOLK, England (PNN) - October 24, 2022 - A local radio host died from a suspected heart attack while presenting his daily breakfast show.

Tim Gough, 55, was presenting his morning program for GenX Radio Suffolk when the music stopped playing halfway through a song, about an hour into his slot.

The music resumed a few minutes later but Mr. Gough, who had been speaking just moments earlier, did not return and later the station confirmed he had passed away.

GenX Radio Suffolk posted on its social media accounts, “It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to inform you, our dear friend and breakfast host Tim Gough passed away this morning while presenting his program. Our love to his family, son, sister, brother, and mum. Tim was doing what he loved. He was 55 years old.”

The host, whose radio career dated back to 1986, had wished his listeners a good morning and was excited for the radio station to launch on DAB in a week.

He gave weather updates across Suffolk and just minutes before Grey Day by Madness stopped abruptly, he was talking about famous couples who have married in Bury, Suffolk, over the years.

The father-of-one spoke his final words after playing Brown Sugar by the Rolling Stones, commenting that it was the birthday of bass guitarist Bill Wyman, a Suffolk resident.

James Hazell, managing director of GenX Radio Suffolk, was on air from 9:00 am and shortly before 11:00 am he informed listeners of the “devastating blow”.

He said, “I speak to you this morning with frankly some tragic, tragic news. At ten to eight this morning in the middle of Tim Cough’s breakfast show broadcast, he suffered a catastrophic cardiac episode - as it has been described. Despite the best efforts of the paramedics, who were on site very quickly, some 20-25 minutes doing what they could to revive him - it was not to be.”

“It was in the middle of his program; he was doing something he loved to do. I really have no words at this stage, he was 55 years old, very healthy. Who knows why these things happene, but it happened.”