OUR CONSULTING TEAM

Wayne Clouten

Chief Executive Officer & Consultant

Wayne offers 30 years broadcasting experience principally in the areas of presentation, programming, marketing and general management. During this time Wayne has been responsible for launching 3 radio stations in Australasia and took 5ADFM to the No 1 position in Adelaide, South Australia for 45 consecutive survey wins establishing 5ADFM at the time as one of Australia’s most successful metropolitan radio stations.

Wayne has served as a Director of the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters and in 1994 was awarded the prestigious Keith Graham Scholarship to undertake University studies in the United States. Wayne offers experience in both the private and public broadcasting sectors including Australia’s first under 18 community radio station.

He is a highly experienced strategic marketer with experience in both music and talk based radio programming.

In addition to radio, Wayne has managed and reported research studies for a wide range of media including television, cinema, Internet and newspapers. Wayne Clouten’s speciality is relationship marketing and programme content development.
 

Bill Clemens

Director & Consultant

Principal and Director of Broadcast Programming & Research.

Bill Clemens has been actively involved in radio since the beginning of the 1970’s and is best known as the “research expert” within BP&R. Bill’s radio experience has involved programming and producing for many formats and markets, before branching into a more specialized focus on research applications for radio and television.

Bill led the development of PC based research software applications for radio during the 1980’s. This software became the basis for BPR Xplorer, which is now one of the most widely used radio research and programming software applications throughout Australasia and Europe.

In 1984, Bill Clemens founded Broadcast Programming & Research with partner Peter Don.

Bill offers an unparalleled insight into European radio markets and the forces that drive them and has pioneered many cutting edge research processes.
 

Peter Don

Director & Consultant

Principal and Director of Broadcast Programming & Research.

Peter Don has a radio background covering 30 years as a Programme Director, General Manager and Consultant in a number of formats and markets.

Beginning in New Zealand as a music producer, Peter’s later radio experience included producing talk radio programmes, writing and producing on air imaging and programming a range of stations including top 40, and full service radio. This was followed by a period as a National Programme Director and later General Manager before establishing Broadcast Programming & Research with partner Bill Clemens in 1984.

In addition to strategic analysis of stations and markets, Peter Don brings practical programming, operations and management experience to BP&R’s clients in many different countries. Peter offers a comprehensive knowledge of European radio broadcasting.
 

Andy Beaubien

Consultant

Prior to joining BP&R in 1997, Andy Beaubien spent 17 years as a successful Program Director in American radio markets such as Houston, Los Angeles, Boston and Washington, DC.

Andy was one of the first programmers in America to use call-out research in a private radio application. In the early days of his career, he acquired practical experience as an on-air personality, production director and studio engineer.

As a BPR research and programming consultant for more than 8 years, Andy has worked extensively in Europe offering experience in such markets as Poland, Hungary, Russia, Finland, Germany United Kingdom, Sweden, Austria, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Denmark.

Andy Beaubien specialises in combining practical radio programming experience with modern research techniques to deliver practical strategic solutions to clients in a variety of markets and formats. Andy is particularly experienced in alternative music formats and Eastern Europe.

Andy is fluent in French, German and English languages.
 

Oliver Meyer

Consultant & European Software Support

Oliver began his radio career working with radioforschung nord, the largest private radio research centre in northern Germany. He was part of the original team which provided the Mach 3 Group with its first call out research program and which, in a few short years, helped to propel the group to ratings dominance in Schleswig-Holstein. As Manager of the interviewing centre, he developed a thorough and practical understanding of the complexities of data gathering and processing.

In January of 1999 Oliver Meyer was asked to move to Berlin and join BP&R in order to help provide technical support and research advice for its European client stations. Since that time Oliver has developed into a valued BP&R Research Consultant and has earned the respect and trust of clients and colleagues alike.

Oliver is expert in the set up and operation of call centres using BP&R’s software systems and is fluent in both German and English languages.
 

Martin Kopp

Manager mymusictest.com

An opportunity to fulfil a long-held ambition to establish a career in radio broadcasting materialised for Martin in 1998 with the establishment of private radio in his home country of Austria. Gaining a position at 88.6 in listener services, Martin progressively worked his way up to morning show producer, DJ and finally Program Director. It was during Martin’s time as Program Director that 88.6 regained its position as the No1 private station in Vienna.

Fueled by an enthusiasm for relationship marketing and web-enabled applications, Martin left 88.6 at the end of 2004, founding his own company; Get Permission. Get Permission focussed on developing solutions to leverage the relationship between the on-air product and radio station websites and databases. Since establishing Get Permission, Martin has worked for a number of radio stations in Austria and Germany.

In 2006 Martin developed an on-line research portal, mymusictest.com, launching it in conjunction with BP&R in November 2006. This followed an extensive period of research into the best tactics and processes to employ in delivering reliable and accurate data from an on-line research system. mymusictest.com became the first multilingual online platform for radio stations to test music on the internet.

Martin joined BP&R on 1st May 2007 and is responsible for the management and development of web-enabled research systems at BP&R. Martin brings a considerable amount of knowledge and expertise in the area of relationship marketing, databases and the www.

Martin is fluent in both German and English languages.
 

OTHER MEMBERS OF THE BP&R TEAM

Jacqui O’Brien

Business Manager

Michelle Warren

Australasian Software Support