Sport won the day and has been the mainstay of Saturday afternoon broadcasting ever since, eventually winning BBC Wiltshire Sound the reputation as being the premier local station for all the latest news on Swindon Town Football Club.
Simple Audio released its first range of networked audio products last year into UK and European markets where the young company quickly built a strong reputation for superior sound quality and exceptional product design.
The new boss has an impressive reputation, so that, for all the sound and fury, it would ultimately have seemed churlish for shareholders to deprive him of a chance to revive the firm unless Mr Green had offered silly money, which is not his style.