The founder and CEO of Digital One, the company, half owned by GCap, which operates the existing national digital audio broadcasting network, has announced he will step down at the end of this month.
Referring to the recent and upcoming shifts in digital audio broadcasting – following outgoing GCap CEO Fru Hazlitt's bid to sell her company's share in Digital One, coupled with proposals by incoming GCap owners Global that the existing digital firm should work with new rival Channel 4 Radio – Quentin Howard said he thought now was as good a time as any to move on.
Confirming his departure, he said: "I think there is obviously a lot of change on the horizon for digital radio at the moment, what with Global taking over GCap and plans for Digital One that may or may not involve Channel 4's multiplex. Clearly, there is going to be a very different approach to digital radio and I think it's the right time for me to let other people get on with it".
Howard will remain President of WorldDMB, which promotes the use of DAB and its offshoot multimedia platform DMB as desirable digital content delivery systems around the world.