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Former GCap boss to return to radio
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 15 December 2009
The former boss of GCap Media, Ralph Bernard, who left the radio major a few months before Global Radio began their takeover of it, is planning a return to radio.
Bernard, who headed up the GWR radio company before helping engineer its merger with Capital Radio to create GCap, which he later led, has most recently been in charge of the Royal Albert Hall, where he has been CEO. But he’s quitting that role, I think because its proven to be a job that involves work, rather than executive breakfasts, blue sky thinking sessions and all the other nonsense that chief executives get up to in big business.
Confirming his departure from the London venue, he told reporters: “At times like these people always look for the angle, the reason why such a surprising decision has been taken. The plain fact is that the role of chief executive is not what I expected it to be based on my experience in the commercial world. For many years the most senior role here was that of general manager and in my view that is in many ways what the role still is. And that’s not me”.
The former GCap boss also confirmed his intent to return to radio next year, though not in network management but programme production, the area where he began his radio career. A project with Johnny Walker is seemingly on the cards to get things rolling.
