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Paul Easton

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Following several years in hospital radio, Paul’s professional radio career began in 1974, when he joined LBC Radio as a studio operator, working on news programmes, phone-ins and outside broadcasts. He later became a programme producer and, eventually, the station’s head of production, where one of his main responsibilities was LBC’s on-air ‘imaging’ and branding.

In 1987 he spent a year with Ocean Sound as a presenter, before becoming launch consultant to Contact 94, an English-language commercial station broadcasting to the Channel Islands from France. From there, Paul went to Vienna where he spent the next two years working for Austria’s state broadcaster, ORF, as a freelance presenter and newsreader on their English-language station, Blue Danube Radio.

Returning to London, Paul spent a few months with British Satellite Broadcasting's music channel 'The Power Station', which included an up-and-coming presenter by the name of Chris Evans on the 'Power Up' breakfast show. Paul then joined Melody Radio as one of its original music programmers, before, in 1991, moving to Capital Radio as Assistant to the Director of Programmes, where he worked on both Capital FM and Capital Gold. He later moved full-time to Capital Gold, where he was responsible for much of the station’s music output, as well as producing shows by many legendary names, such as Kenny Everett, Alan Freeman and Tony Blackburn. In the summer of 1993, following their acquisition by Capital, Paul was seconded to BRMB and Xtra in Birmingham to assist with programming and music changes prior to a relaunch of both stations.

In 1994, he left Capital to take up the new post of head of programming at Music Choice Europe, the digital satellite music service, where he stayed for six years before leaving 'to pursue other interests'.

At the end of 2000, Paul joined UKRD’s Infinity Media subsidiary as Launch/Programme Director for their new DAB digital radio station, FLIX Radio, as well as developing new digital/internet radio station formats and helping to write Radio Authority licence applications.

Since 2002 Paul has been a freelance radio programming consultant as well as specialising in monitoring and analysis of existing stations for companies applying for new Ofcom licences; including the winning applications for Norwich, Swansea, Ipswich, Hull and Oxford.

He is also a regular ‘Visiting Lecturer’ on various radio production courses at the London College of Communication, and writes the fortnightly ‘Programming Points’ column in The Radio Magazine.

Paul is also one of the judges for the Radio Academy Nations & Regions Awards and the National Hospital Radio Awards.

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