The lovely Capital Radio have appointed their regional programming chief Nik Goodman to tackle the challenge that is maintaining the always-at-risk market leader status of their flagship London station Capital FM. He takes over from Keith Pringle who has been promoted from his role as MD and Programming Chief of the London station to a job higher up at the newly merged GCap Media Group.
Despite some criticism along the way, Pringle's leadership at Capital FM has been generally successful - if nothing else he successfully steered the station through the one thing everyone at Capital had been dreading for years, the departure of Chris Tarrant from the breakfast show. Goodman will need to continue the battle against key rivals Heart and Magic, while ensuring the increasing of number of niche radio stations in the digital age doesn't have too negative an impact on one of GCap's least niche brands.
Confirming his appointment, Goodman told reporters: "Capital FM is at the top of the programming tree, there's a great team there and I can't wait to be a part of it".