He won a Sony radio award for his documentary on the life of Elvis Presley.
He returned to the East Midlands in 1998 to become managing director of the regional station Century 106, owned by Border Radio Holdings, (later to become Heart 106, then Gem 106, and finally Gem), later becoming group programme director for all of Border's radio stations.
Alongside his management role at Galaxy, Lloyd was heard on another East Midlands regional station Saga 106.6 FM (now Smooth East Midlands) in February 2003, presenting a Sunday morning request show.
[1] Following the station's sale, he returned briefly to a spell of presentation duties at BBC Radio Nottingham.
[2] In April 2009, Lloyd was appointed as head of regional and local programming for BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, based in Hull, but left that role after only a few weeks after being appointed group programming and marketing director of the newly-established Orion Media and its five Midlands-based FM stations — BRMB, Mercia FM, Wyvern FM, Beacon Radio in the West Midlands, and Heart 106 in the East Midlands.