{"id":288253,"date":"2025-11-28T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288253\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:37:09","slug":"richard-maddock-appointed-to-new-role-as-head-of-bbc-5-live-radiotoday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288253\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Maddock appointed to new role as Head of BBC 5 Live \u2013 RadioToday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a itemprop=\"url\" class=\"ysbvegnl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/aiirjune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ysbvegnl-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RTUKPackageDeal2.webp.webp\" alt=\"Aiir June 1\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Maddock has been named Head of 5 Live, taking responsibility for 5 Live, 5 Sports Extra, the new Sounds sports streams, and Sports Extra 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/todayl.ink\/WiseBuddah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/RadioToday-Small-Image-150x150-1.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Heidi Dawson will expand her role to Head of the North of England, focusing on strategic engagement and growth while continuing as Controller of 5 Live.<\/p>\n<p>In the newly created role, Maddock will lead the station during an eighteen-month transition, maintaining continuity and driving innovation as Dawson focuses on her expanded strategic responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>He will start the role on 1 December, bringing extensive experience from more than a decade at 5 Live, where he has been Commissioning Editor since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>In that role, he managed live programming and over thirty podcasts, working closely with both BBC teams and independent producers.<\/p>\n<p>Before joining the BBC, he spent over twenty years in commercial radio, including senior leadership positions at Bauer Media.<\/p>\n<p>On his appointment, Maddock said: \u201cHaving been at the station for twelve years and working closely with programme teams both inside the BBC and within the independent production sector, I know how creative, passionate, and dedicated they all are.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to what is an exciting next eighteen months for 5 Live and Sports Extra and I\u2019m delighted to be able to help keep the network driving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Maddock has been named Head of 5 Live, taking responsibility for 5 Live, 5 Sports Extra, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-288253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}