This kind and charming giant with a childhood smile has been familiar to almost all viewers and radio listeners of the country for many years. Born in a disadvantaged area of the city of Odintsovo, he, unexpectedly for all his many relatives, who worked for many decades in factories, managed to become a popular presenter on radio and television, having come to his fiftieth birthday as an already wise experience producer and editor-in-chief of the Militia Wave radio station.
The origins
The whole large Shirokov family was originally from the eighth microdistrict of the city of Odintsovo near Moscow, popularly called the Second Plant. His great-grandfather was among those few lucky ones who had a large brick house. My great-grandmother, who masterfully cheated at cards even playing with her own great-grandson, was remembered by the leading Belomor block behind her back and an eternal cigarette in her mouth.
Grandfather Dmitry Shirokov had as many as twenty two brothers. They all lived close to each other and were one large average working-class family of the city of Odintsovo.
Tamara Serafimovna, the mother of our hero, died of cancer in 1991. Evgeny Shirokov, Dmitry’s father, was destined to survive his beloved wife for only ten years.
In 2001, he died in a car accident, in the last instant having managed to substitute the car with his side under the blow of a car rushing along the oncoming lane, driven by a drunk driver. At the cost of his own life, a man saved his son and daughter-in-law, who were traveling that tragic day with him ...
Childhood and youth
Dmitry Evgenievich Shirokov was born on February 9, 1969. New generations of residents of Odintsovo and the Second Plant, which today is a large construction site that has turned these places into a modern city with new neighborhoods, streets and social facilities, do not even suspect that a few decades ago this whole territory was not the most prosperous area .
Private houses and factory huts, which in the late 70s replaced the gray rows of Khrushchev's five-story buildings; the remains of clay quarries that turned into a pond on Komsomolskaya Street; the constant fights of adolescents and the skirmishes “microdistrict to microdistrict” - that was the place in which the future famous presenter Dmitry Shirokov was born.
After graduating from secondary school No. 1, he got a job at the Moscow Pump Plant, where he worked as a turner until 1986, until he was called up for military service.
Demobilized, Dmitry returned to his hometown. In 1992, he entered the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. He graduated in 1997 and became a certified specialist in Russian language and literature.
Work on the radio
In the biography of Dmitry Shirokov, radio first appeared in 1994, while he was still studying at the Pedagogical Institute.
Then, the country opened up opportunities for entrepreneurship at all levels, and commercial radio stations opened one after the other. They included Radio 101, where, by the will of fate, Dmitry's classmates ended up. Knowing the sociable character, well-read and erudite guy, they invited him to lead the Book News program at this station.
At Radio 101, Shirokov worked until 2000. Together with him, such famous future presenters as Valdis Pelsh, Kirill Kleimenov, Aleksey Kortnev, Aleksey Lysenkov and Irina Bogushevskaya began their activities here. "Radio 101" became a unique phenomenon of the airwaves of those years. It was the only station that had neither a format nor a musical repertoire approved by anyone. Each host prepared their broadcast purely at their own discretion and taste.
From 2000 to 2003, Dmitry Shirokov worked as the program director of the radio station "Russian Radio-2", then, until 2007, the leading programs on the "Autoradio", "Radio" Online "," Radio Disco "and" Russian Songs " .
In 2008, Shirokov became the program director of the Good Songs radio station, one of the first in the country to broadcast chanson on the air. In 2014 - the editor-in-chief of the station "Our Moscow Region". And just recently, in 2018, he was appointed to the post of chief editor of the Police Wave.
Work on television
Even at the time of his student years and the beginning of work on Radio 101, Dmitry Shirokov, who had not even thought about television before, worked part-time as a showman in the club at night. Aurora and Sasha Pryanikov, the popular hosts of Muz-TV, were frequent guests in this establishment. On one of the beautiful nights, they invited the textured and bright Shirokov to try their hand as the leading morning programs of this television music channel. Dmitry took a chance and a month later was in his first television broadcast in his life.
At Muz-TV, he worked for a total of five years, while simultaneously conducting radio programs. Over the years, he has implemented several successful music projects, the most popular of which are Canned. The period of work on the TV channel turned out to be truly stellar for Dmitry. He became so popular that he was recognized on the streets and was not allowed to pass, even if he simply went to the nearest grocery store.
After Muz-TV, Shirokov took part in several more special projects. For some time he worked on the newly opened TV-6 channel. He was also a leading and even producer of the La Minor channel.
Personal life
Dmitry Shirokov married back in 1990, immediately after returning from the army. He met his wife practically in his own yard, since she was also born in the microdistrict of the Second Plant in Odintsovo.
Open and sociable during his radio and television broadcasts, Dmitry considers personal life to be an absolutely inaccessible topic for everyone. The name, biography and occupation of his wife are unknown. On Shirokov’s page in one of the social networks you can find her only photo.
It is known that our hero has a son Dmitry, all information about which is also presented by a single photograph.
Finally
Despite the fact that almost all of his conscious life is connected with the profession of a presenter, Dmitry himself finds radio a sweet poison, and ether a drug. The same thing that dragged him into the maelstrom of radio and television, he considers partly his bad luck. Such is the paradox. And when asked how he could give advice to beginner radio hosts, he replies:
If this is a girl, knock the dope out of my head, get married, give birth to children and listen to the radio only in the receiver. If this is a young man, do not do it if possible. Chekhov said: “If you can not write, do not write” ...
In the photo - Dmitry Shirokov today.
A few days ago, Dmitry celebrated his fiftieth anniversary. From a good-natured charming giant from Odintsovo, as a boy worried in front of the broadcast, he has long turned into a producer wise by the life and experience. And now, despite the fact that he has a lot of interesting work and meetings ahead, he considers life itself to be the most important and unusual for himself ...