No one, presumably, will be surprised to hear that a former GWR man is being lined up to take on the Programme Director job at Capital Radio, a job that became vacant last week when the London station's MD Keith Pringle and PD Nik Goodman were kicked out by the top guard at GCap, the GWR dominated parent company created by the merger of GWR and Capital.
The Guardian reports that favourite to take over the PD job is Scott Muller, formerly a GWR exec who helped launch the radio company's digital division, and currently PD at music radio station Nova in Sydney. That gossip is aided by the fact that Muller was over in the UK recently, and that Capital is already known to have copied some advertising tactics off the Australian station.
According to the Guardian, GWR chief Ralph Bernard highly regards Nova's advertising strategies which some say helped the relative newcomer to Sydney's radio sector achieve quick ratings and commercial successes. However some in the Australian radio community question the real value of that strategy - claiming that Nova's early successes were down to its position as a newcomer in a stagnant market and that the station is starting to struggle now that it has settled down to a format more akin to its competitors.