We have made some changes to our Music, Programmes and Production teams.

In the past 15 months James Curran’s Music team have secured some amazing live performances from Chris Martin, Florence & The Machine, Doves, Madness, Biffy Clyro, Keane, Tori Amos, as well as interviews with U2, Green Day and Elbow. Between them they have also radically deepened our playlist, implemented the No Repeat Guarantee and been the creators and custodians of music catalogues for four radio services including Absolute Classic Rock, Absolute 80s and dabbl. To recognise this amazing effort and impact it has on the product Tim Vernon becomes Deputy Head of Music and David Lambert becomes Music Producer, Digital.

Our Executive Producer, Paul Sylvester, now takes on the responsibility for leading the Programmes team. Paul continues to run the programme schedule and spearhead the Absolute Radio branded podcast strategy which delivered us 5.8 million downloads in 2009.

Brian Murphy becomes Head of Production. In this new role he will lead our Sony Award winning team in producing finely crafted audio for the Content and Branded Content departments. Brian also retains responsibilities for scouting and developing new broadcasting talent and will work closely with the Promotions and Sponsorship teams on revenue generating programming.

Finally, to acknowledge the great work Vince Lynch has done in the past year in setting up our music publishing deal with EMI and leading the new One Golden Square Creative initiative, he becomes Creative & Publishing Director.

Over the next few days we I look forward to announcing more details of our new Interactive teams, but for now, please join me in congratulating the above members of Music, Programmes and Production.

Tony