21st Century

Commercial Licence Application Project Management - Including design and commissioning of market research, drafting assistance, final editing and submission of an application to Ofcom for a big city area.

(Ongoing) Consultancy to Commmunity Radio - Including programming, music, training and coverage issues - GTFM Pontypridd, South Wales.

(Ongoing) Consultancy to BBC Local and Regional Radio - Including Rajar interpretation, coaching in competitive scheduling, popular programming techniques and the strategic use of music. Locations include Radio Newcastle, Radio Cleveland, Radio Cumbria, Radio Wiltshire/Swindon, Radio Humberside, Radio Merseyside, Radio Gloucestershire, Radio Solent, Radio Stoke, Radio Oxford and Radio Wales.

Independent Project Management - Including a major transmitter coverage extension for Real Radio, South Wales and GMG Radio’s “Smooth FM” East Midlands regional licence application.

Compiled Monitoring Reports for Licence Applicants. Provided overview advice and final stage application assistance to Club Asia – winner of a London-wide licence.

UKRD Group Programme Director and Managing Director, UKRD West. Initiated first group-wide music policy, helped re-launch Cambridge station and managed westcountry operations from Bristol.

1990's

Launch Chief Executive at 96.2 The Revolution (Oldham and East Manchester). Station launched with £100k revenue pre-booked and quickly recorded healthy audience levels in a highly competitive TSA.

Senior consultant manager to UKRD Group.Was caretaker Chief Executive/PD at Active FM and re-negotiated new Delta licence area with Radio Authority.

Devised and managed the frequency split as MD at Swansea Sound, launching “Soundwave” (“The Wave”) on FM and effectively re-launching Swansea Sound on AM. Pre-split weekly reach of 28% turned to combined reach of 40% within three years, doubling combo audience share. And serious losses became good profits as the new FM station was quickly established and Swansea Sound survived to retain one of the largest AM weekly audience reaches in the UK.

Coordinated and wrote the winning application for the local Licence for the South Wales Valleys (Valleys Radio) overseeing the station launch, the establishment of satisfactory audience levels and monthly operating profits on AM, in an area with a depressed economy.

Set up experimental ‘small scale’ station - Delta, Haslemere - whilst Head of Projects at County Sound. Later became Group Director of Programmes and a founding director of Wey Valley Radio (Alton). Adviser to Kestrel applicant group in Basingstoke. Wrote key parts of the winning Eagle/County Sound (Guildford area) AM & FM applications.

1980's

The Programme Controller at Radio 210 who launched the UK’s first full-time FM only ILR service (to the Basingstoke, Newbury and Andover areas) and doubled station weekly reach to 42% of the larger TSA (680,000 adults). This success allowed the IBA to change licensing strategy and advertise new areas based on single-waveband coverage.

First Deputy Head of Programming Department at the National Broadcasting School in London . Taught programming/presentation techniques and was Consultant Programme Controller at CBC Cardiff and Radio Aire (Leeds).

1970's

Was founding Head of Music at Swansea Sound, the first ILR station in Wales – 63% weekly reach.

BBC presentation/production/operational training in Bristol and Brighton.

(Late 1960's - Established Taunton Hospital Radio whilst at school. Also took part in BBC Area Radio FM experiment "Weekend West")