Sure Nova’s ratings have dropped off. But Paul Thompson is at it again launching a radio station aimed at people born between 1960 and 1965. I wrote this for the Financial Times on the launch of Nova in Melbourne in 2002. Now as Crikey reports Thompson is at it again. It’s anybody’s guess what programming tricks work in radio nowadays. But Paul Thompson, chief executive of Daily Mail Group in Australia was gob-smacked when his Melbourne station Nova hit the […]

Would WPP boss Sir Martin Sorrell go into business with an entrepreneur who has traded blows in a car park with the head of an ad agency, and appeared in court accused of headbutting an accountant while drunk? Well, yes he would. Twice in fact.