Sound Concepts

Advice, help and guidance for radio station operators. Informal and formal training, licence applications and interim management. Audience research design and analysis. Studio design and project management. Transmission system planning. Brian Lister has been described as one of the UK's most trusted and respected radio consultants and trainers, wor... king with numerous radio groups of all sizes he has also aided numerous groups to gain commercial and community radio licences. With his uniquely diverse, multi-skilled operational background in BBC, commercial and community radio, Brian has recently specialised in station launches, programming consultancy, interim management, training and radio licence application projects. Brian's passion for radio is life-long; initially involved in radio through setting-up a hospital radio service in Romford, he became manager of University Radio Essex while studying for his BA (Hons) in Telecommunications, launching the station in 1971, then trained with BBC Radio as a Studio Manager, working at Broadcasting House and with the Overseas Services at Bush House. In 1974, he joined Metro Radio for the launch of the Newcastle radio station. It was there that he developed his programming skills, starting as Technical Operations manager and becoming the Assistant Programme Controller. With the acquisition of Radio Tees by Metro in 1986, Brian was appointed Programme Director and General Manager of the Stockton-on-Tees company, very successfully re-launching the station as TFM Radio. From 1985 until 1995 he was also a director of Sunderland Community Radio Association Ltd., who operated the Sunderland local radio licence as Wear FM. Brian was part of the A1FM consortium that won the Darlington licence in 1995, but he departed to become Managing Director of Stray FM in Harrogate, where he successfully took the station to market leadership and steered the business into profitability. In 1997, he left to re-join A1FM, which had struggled to launch successfully. He re-launched the station ...Read More