Dave Fanning Net Worth
Dave Fanning Net Worth is
$12 Million
Dave Fanning Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Dave Fanning (born 1955) is an Irish rock journalist, DJ, retired film critic and veteran broadcaster.Fanning currently hosts The 11th Hour on RTÉ Two and two radio shows: Drivetime with Dave on RTÉ Radio 1 and The Dave Fanning Show on RTÉ 2fm. He also fills in for other presenters on RTÉ Radio, including acting as a surrogate for Ryan Tubridy in June 2009. Likewise, John Creedon has worked as a surrogate for Fanning.Due to his much celebrated friendship with U2, Fanning has for three decades been granted the first airing of any of the band's new singles before anyone else in the world, with band members often calling Fanning to tell him what they are doing. He has presented over twenty different series for RTÉ Television, including Rock Sundown, 2TV, Jobsuss, Visual Eyes, The Arts Show, documentaries on Cambodia and Ethiopia, Number One, a pop quiz which ran for six years, and The Movie Show, a movie review show which ran for ten years, and more recently The Last Broadcast. He also hosted RTÉ's live television coverage of Live 8 in Hyde Park, London (July 2005) and Live Earth in Wembley Stadium, London (July 2007). He claims to have conducted around 200 interviews with global rock stars.Fanning is the receiver of several awards and nominations, the first of which was a Jacob's Award in 1980. He won numerous IRMA awards and has won Best DJ at the Meteor Music Awards a total of three times, and been nominated at least twice more in 2008 and 2009, this after being granted the Industry Award in 2004.Hot Press regards Fanning as "one of the most familiar faces and voices in Irish broadcasting". Rob Sharp of UK newspaper The Independent has referred to him as a "legendary Irish DJ". BP Fallon commented in 2008: "Without Dave Fanning on the radio, music in Ireland would have had a poorer face. Dave changed things, opened up ears". The Sunday Tribune's Eithne Tynan has defined his style as a "thousand words a minute, start a whole new sentence before you've finished the previous one". Fanning is parodied by Oliver Callan. | Date Of Birth | 1955-12-30 |
| Place Of Birth | Mount Merrion, Dublin, Ireland |
| Profession | Actor |
| Education | University College Dublin |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Spouse | Ursula |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | In 1994 Richard Branson asked Dave to join his new station, Virgin Radio. Dave presented his own show there every weekend for 2 years. |
| 2 | In 1977 he became editor of Ireland's only rock magazine 'Scene' and also began as a deejay on fledgling pirate music station Radio Dublin. |
| 3 | He was educated at Blackrock College. He graduated from University College Dublin (U.C.D.) in 1977 with a degree in English and Philosophy and a Higher Diploma in Education. He joined RTÉ 2FM when it started up in 1979. |
| 4 | Dave is co-owner of Rumble Films. |
| 5 | He has always supported young, new Irish talent and his very first session in RTÉ 2FM was with a young, four-piece Dublin band called U2 and his friendship with the band continues to this day. He has been compared with John Peel. |
| 6 | Throughout the 90s he presented almost 400 editions of The Movie Show. He was also movie critic for The Sunday World Newspaper (Ireland) from 1997 to 2004. |
| 7 | In Britain, in recent years, Dave was Programme Consultant on ITV's 'South Bank Show' for their music special 'Cool Clear Crystal Streams' and presented many documentaries on music including a BBC Radio 4 profile on Bono. |
| 8 | He has two sons and one daughter. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ordinary Decent Criminal | 2000 | Radio Presenter |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 9th Meteor Ireland Music Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Tubridy Tonight | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Podge and Rodge Show | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Brendan Courtney Show | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| Gaybo's Grumpy Men | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The 2nd Meteor Ireland Music Awards | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Horslips: Return of the Dancehall Sweethearts | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Chain Reactions | 2005 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Bono: God's Favourite Son | 2004 | Video documentary | Himself |
| The Afternoon Show | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Late Late Show | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| Buried Alive | 2004 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Meteor Ireland Music Awards 2004 | 2004 | TV Special | Himself - Winner |
| Close Encounters with Keith Barry | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| You're a Star | 2002 | TV Series | Himself / Judge (Series 3) (2004-2005) |
| Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe | 2000 | Documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| Depeche Mode: The Videos 86>98 | 1999 | Video | Himself (segment "Ultra") |
| Friday at the Dome | 1991 | TV Series | Himself - Presenter |
Known for movies
98" class="knownfor-ellipsis" >Depeche Mode: The Videos 86>98 (1999)
as Himself (segment "Ultra")
You're a Star (2002)
as Himself / Judge (Series 3) (2004-2005)
Aidan Walsh: Master of the Universe (2000)
as Himself - Interviewee
Horslips: Return of the Dancehall Sweethearts (2005)
as Himself