George Ergatoudis: 'It's important playlist meetings are half men, half women'

Coral Williamson

George Ergatoudis has opened the lid a little more on the meetings that determine the weekly playlists of his stations, saying that tracks are discussed "like an A&R meeting".

Speaking to Hits Daily Double, the BBC Radio 1/1Extra head of music said: “Our specific brief, broadly speaking, is to appeal to a young audience, so we’re filtering everything through that. Also, we’re not specifically chasing one or two genres - we’re very diverse. So when we come to the ...

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