Beginning his career at several local BBC Radio stations, he later became a presenter and continuity announcer for ATV and Central Television.
[2] There, he interviewed such people as former Prime Minister Edward Heath, actress Joan Collins and singer Michael Jackson.
[2] White also presented a weekly country music show on the local commercial radio station Mercia Sound in Coventry and Warwickshire.
White made the transition from radio to television by joining ATV as a continuity announcer and worked on a number of programmes including Star Soccer, Something Different as well as presenting several documentaries.
After ATV was replaced by Central Television in 1982, White stayed at the channel, becoming the first human to appear on the satirical puppet show Spitting Image, in back-to-back episodes.
[15] In a November 2021 interview with Iain Dale for an LBC podcast, White revealed the only other person who knew about his departure in advance was the editor of Look East, and he left the Norwich studios immediately after that night's programme.