Blair later mentioned during Prime Minister's Questions that Penk had prank-called him that morning, and at that point it became a global media story.
[2] In 2001, Penk moved to Virgin Radio, where he replaced Chris Evans on the breakfast show[3] and increased the audience by 300,000 listeners in the first three months.
[4][5] After a year presenting the late show on Capital Radio, networked to a number of other stations, Penk returned to Manchester's Key 103; however, he left at the end of 2006.
Penk returned to the airwaves on Fox FM in Oxfordshire in March 2007 as its new breakfast show presenter.
On Thursday 4 September 2008, it was announced that Penk had bought the entire share capital in the radio station 96.2 the Revolution.