Des Paul
Radio and Demo Listening panels [2009]
Des Paul has been working in the music and broadcast media industry for 15 years. From his roots in South London cable radio, he joined Capital Radio in 1996 and spent 8 years presenting award-winning shows for Power FM and the Capital Network. Des also produced and developed specialist dance music shows ranging from house to UK Garage.
In 2004 he came to Choice FM as Head of Music after their acquisition by Capital, and spent 2 years completely rebuilding the music policy and saw the station through its strongest period of growth bringing in the highest audience figures in its history.
Des moved to MTV Networks UK & Ireland in 2006 as Acting Head of Music Programming working on strategy for the music output of the 9 MTV UK & Ireland Music Channels, including complete makeovers of channels such as MTV Dance to focus it as the UK’s only 24/7 Dance Music TV Channel, and TMF to establish it’s presence as the destination for music on Freeview platforms.
2008 saw Des return to radio producing, play-listing and presenting two weekend dance music shows for Capital FM. He also moved to Ministry of Sound to consult as Head of Media looking after MoS TV and MoS Radio. Earlier this year he took the opportunity to play for Hed Kandi and is now travelling all over the world playing glamorous house music.
He runs a content production company (Pastry Jar Ltd), providing audio & visual music themed content. Commissions include six Ibiza special Dancefloor Chart shows for MTV and various online packages for websites such as MSN.
