About Mike Mendoza (broadcaster)
Mike Mendoza (born 1 November 1948) is a British radio presenter and former politician best known for the overnight radio shows he presented on Talksport between 2004 and 2008, initially on weeknights before being moved to weekends in 2006. Mike joined Talksport after eleven years as overnight presenter with London's LBC. Mendoza was a Conservative councillor sitting on Adur District Council in West Sussex and was chairman of the council. He owned a magazine called What's Happening, which he later sold. In August 2014 Mendoza joined Latest TV, a local TV station in Brighton & Hove, presenting news, political debate and newspaper reviews. Mendoza was appointed chair of Lancing parish council in 2021. In October 2016, Mike Mendoza joined news channel Arise News as a presenter/anchorman, whilst continuing to present current affairs shows and news reading two days per week on Latest TV. Mendoza appeared in the Sinderfella alternative pantomime in Brighton in February 2016. An illness in early 2017 prevented Mendoza working. He later returned to Arise News in June 2017 only to be taken ill yet again, this time with back ache problems. In February 2018, Mike Mendoza joined an internet radio station called Delux Radio. Mike Mendoza is made a full Director of Latest TV based in Brighton in September 2019. He won the seat as an independent, a week before it was announced that he would be joining Talksport. Mendoza later joined his former Talksport colleague George Galloway on the Iranian government-funded news channel Press TV, presenting a thirteen-week television series entitled Off the Cuff for which he received a substantial payment from the Iranian government.
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