David Allan "Kid" Jensen (born 4 July 1950) is a Canadian-born British radio DJ and television presenter.
Born into a Danish-origin family residing in Victoria, British Columbia, Jensen began his career in his home country at the age of sixteen playing jazz and classical music on CJOV-FM, in Kelowna, on a show called Music For Dining, which was sponsored a lot of the time by a number of local funeral parlours.
From May 1970, he presented a popular progressive rock show, typically broadcast at midnight or 1 am, later billed as "Dimensions" which resulted in a big increase in listeners to this slot.
By 1974, Jensen was becoming a TV personality in Britain, hosting pop shows on ITV (including music quiz show Pop Quest), and in the mid-1970s he worked for the then-new Radio Trent (now Capital East Midlands) in Nottingham, one of the first legal, land-based commercial radio stations in the UK.
He kept his profile high through regular appearances presenting Top of the Pops, and championed many acts who went on to achieve huge commercial success, notably The Police and Gary Numan.
After his 29 May 1980 radio show, Jensen left the BBC to work for the Turner Broadcasting System WTBS cable superstation in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was host of the 10:00 pm nightly news.
He continued to comment regularly on pop-related stories in ITN and Sky News bulletins for some time after he left the Network Chart in 1993, when he was replaced by Neil Fox.
Following a studio and business move to Global headquarters in Leicester Square, Jensen was dropped from the schedules on 19 December 2013.
Also that month he began a weekly show on the newly launched Boom Radio, on Friday nights called Kid Jensen's 70s.
He was a co-presenter (off-screen) of the TV programme Gillette World Sports Special, alongside Mark Webster.
[9][10] Their youngest son, Viktor, a racing driver, both competed in and was also a National Class winner in the 2007 British and International Formula 3 Championship.