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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
John Plunkett

Nova kid on the block

He has just landed the toughest job in London radio - returning the glory days to Capital Radio. But who is Scott Muller? And what does his Australian radio station sound like? Find out here.

Capital's newly-appointed programme director is the mystery man of UK radio. Not surprising, really, because apart from a three-and-a-half year stint at GWR he has spent all his career in his native Australia, the last five years at Nova 969.

Nova is a different beast to his new London station, if its homepage is anything to go by. More brash, more in your face and a little closer to the edge than what Capital listeners are used to, with competitions like the F-Word ("now that's F-in easy!").

But the playlist, with the likes of Robbie Williams' Tripping and Step On It by Beyonce and Slim Thug will be reassuringly familiar to anyone who has tuned into Capital. Indeed, Capital's policy of "no more than two ads in a row" was pioneered at Nova.

But the rest of Novo's line-up is a mystery, with the likes of Fridgy and Matty and Merrick and Rosso.

So what do you make of Nova? Good thing? Bad thing? And if he transports its formula to London, are we in for a treat? Or a turkey?

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