Early career Cameron began his career working as a sports journalist in
Dubai, United Arab Emirates. After filling in for his friend DJing in a nightclub there, he decided to quit journalism and do nightclub DJing full time.
Radio career Having worked as a nightclub DJ in Dubai for a while, Cameron was offered a job at Abu Dhabi's radio station, Emirates Radio. Six months after joining, he was presenting the breakfast show and later switched to the drivetime slot before ultimately becoming station manager. In December 2010, Cameron was announced as the new host of the Real Radio breakfast show, taking over from former
Scot FM DJ
Robin Galloway. "This is a fantastic opportunity to host the Breakfast Show on Scotland's No.1 commercial radio station and one that I'm honoured to take," Cameron said. "I have thoroughly enjoyed my time on the Football Phone In, but now I will get the chance to actually go and watch the football, instead of just talk about it!" They continued in the breakfast slot when the station rebranded as
Heart FM Breakfast in May 2014. Cameron left the station to pursue other opportunities and was replaced by Robin Galloway when the normal weekday scheduled resumed on 5 January 2015, after the weekday schedule changed during the Christmas season. On 9 August 2015, Cameron and Harvey became hosts of the Sunday mid-morning show between 9.00am - 12.00pm on the Hits Radio Scotland Network as part of the
Bauer Media Group, including
Clyde 1,
Forth 1,
MFR,
Northsound 1,
Tay FM and
West FM. Cameron began presenting solo at breakfast Monday to Friday from 10 September 2018, the show was now called
Ewen Cameron in the Morning broadcasting live from the Radio Clyde studios in Glasgow between 6.00am - 10.00am on
Clyde 2,
Forth 2,
MFR 2,
Northsound 2,
Tay 2 and
West Sound, with
West Sound Dumfries & Galloway picking up the show from July 2019 onwards In December 2020, it was announced Harvey would reunite with Cameron for
Ewen & Cat at Breakfast on
Greatest Hits Radio Scotland weekdays. Their show is broadcast live from the
Radio Clyde studios in
Glasgow from 06:00 to 10:00am. In October 2021, the duo stepped down from the Sunday mid-morning slot, with Greig "Greigsy" Easton taking over. Cameron could also be heard on
The Big Scottish Football Show (previously
The Big Saturday Football Show), which is broadcast on
Forth 1 every Saturday afternoon, alongside Steven Mill. Launched on 17 October 2020 to rival
Superscoreboard on Clyde 1, the show features a mix of music, sport and entertainment. In July 2022, Cameron and Mill began hosting
The Big Scottish Football Podcast. On 26 June 2025, it was announced that Ewen and Cat would be leaving
Greatest Hits Radio Scotland at the end of July; The following day, it was announced they will present the breakfast show on a new station to be launched by
STV Group later in the year. They launched
STV Radio on 7 January 2026.
Television career Cameron began his television career with STV when he guest presented
The Hour with long-serving host
Michelle McManus in July 2011, then in 2015 Cameron began co-presenting
The Fountainbridge Show on
STV Edinburgh until he stepped down from the role in January 2016 in order to begin co-presenting
Live at Five on
STV Glasgow then renamed to the
STV2 channel in April 2017, The same year in 2016, Cameron was commissioned for his own late-night talk show on the STV2 channel, The show,
The Late Show with Ewen Cameron also began broadcasting in January 2016, originally on the STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh networks, until both channels closed in 2017 and merged to form the new STV2 channel, where the programme aired at 10:30 pm. Cameron's final contribution to
STV was a short series of Edinburgh festival specials in August 2018, after which he returned to the radio airwaves full-time. ==Personal life==