It’s almost a year since Pete Black left the major label plugging world behind to join Ben Cooper’s radio revolution at Bauer Media Audio, and the company’s new director of music is loving life on the other side of the fence. Here, Music Week meets the executive to talk breaking talent, delivering what the industry wants and ringing the changes…

WORDS: ANNA FIELDING     PHOTOS: MARCO VITTUR 

These days, Pete Black’s head is full of radio jingles ...