'Gary Mallett' & Paul Rusling
From 1989 to 1991 Paul and his wife Anne (with a team of journalists, graphics, photographers, etc) launched and published a weekly paid-for newspaper in East Yorkshire called the Haltemprice Herald. It covered a wide area and had circulation of 22,000.
A proud East Yorkshireman born only fifty yards from the North Sea, Paul's life was heavilly influenced by the offshore radio stations Radio 270, and Radio Caroline, which he later joined as a disc jockey. Since then, he has worked in broadcasting, publishing and hospitality in various parts of the world, while raising his family.
Following the '11 Plus' exam, Paul was educated at the Riley Technical Grammar School and later at the Hull Technical College. To fund his college education he worked as a disc jockey in local night clubs and ballrooms, mainly across the north of England.
Wandering up and down the Radio Dial
Paul Rusling - a tape fanatic!
Commissioning Holland's Radio 10 Gold
Paul Rusling - speaking at a
radio conference in Harlem.
Journalist & Writer
Paul's first commissioned article was in 1973 for a radio magazine. This was a radio publication, aimed at radio listeners in the UK and called SCRIPT. In the article Paul told of his life on Radio Caroline.
A few years later he was commissioned to write a lengthy article for SHIPS MONTHLY about the various radio ships that had broadcast to Europe. That led to Paul being retained by Broadcast (a weekly trade paper) to write about the developing market of Commercial radio in Europe.
In the 1980's he also worked for the Yorkshire Post as a stringer and for the Sunday Times. His ST work included many commissioned articles about radio and the music business.
World Broadcast News
Paul was the UK correspondent for World Broadcast News throughout the 1980 and 1990s. World Broadcast News was a leading American monthly glossy publication covering radio stations around the world.
Mix Mag
In 1984 he was invited by Tony Prince to write for DMC Mag (Disco Mix Club) - a glossy mag aimed at DJs and the clubbing scene. His occasional radio pieces were expanded into a regular monthly 'column' of several pages of news from radio around the world.
Paul also chaired discussion panels on radio at the annual World DJ Convention held in London - at the Hippodrom, the Apollo and Dominion theatres in the West End.
MUSICMAN 279 THE ISLE OF MAN
RADIO CAROLINE
Paul didn't relish spending the rest of his life at sea as a Ship's Radio Officer and was delighted to join the legendary
Radio Caroline in 1973 where he hosted the station's breakfast programme. At that time Radio Caroline was a 'Hot Top 40' radio station. This was ideal ideal for Paul's style of presentation which was very much in the Mecca dance hall 'showman' vein. The station later focussed on a more laid back style playing only album cuts, at which point Paul returned to working in night clubs.
Radio Caroline continues to broadcast, but is no longer at sea and can only be heard on the
internet.
More details of Paul's time with Radio Caroline are on the
INTERNATIONAL
Worldwide Broadcast Consultants tcarried out many contracts for radio projects in the Middle East, Europe and Scandinavia. By 1990 Paul and WBC were involved in licensing for new radio stations in Poland, Lithaunia and the former USSR. License application work proved very successful and enabled Paul to combine engineering with general management tasks, and still keep his hand in programming. Contracts to install (and to repair!) existing stations came from the Azores, to Zagreb and from Morrocco to Finland.
In the late 1980's as the Soviet grip on eastern European countries was loosening, Paul became involved in several ventures, sometimes with the existing 'state' run radio stations, sometimes with 'unlicensed' broadcasts in three capitals 'behind the Iron Curtain.' Among these adventures were a radio station installed into a street tram to broadcast programmes for Lech Wałęsa's
Solidarity He also helped install a pirate TV transmitter inside the Lithaunian parliament, relaying Sky News, after the Russian Army took over the regular TV station in that brave country.
As the 1990s developed Paul became involved with applications for national licences on behalf of several new broadcasters across Europe, including Baltic Radio, Classic FM, Radio 10 Gold, Sky Radio, and Virgin. He also worked for several local stations in Holland, Germany and the UK. Quite often WBC also engaged Paul's former colleagues from Radio Caroline for work in a number of countries, from the Azores to the Lebanon.
Paul worked for several state broadcasters too, including Nozema in the Netherlands, two federal networks in Germany, and others in Poland, Lebanon and the Middle East.
AUTHOR
Paul's first commissioned article was in 1973 for a radio magazine. This was a radio publication, aimed at radio listeners in the UK and called SCRIPT. In the article Paul told of his life on Radio Caroline.
Paul wrote many further pieces over the years for titles as diverse as Practical Wireless, Ships Monthly and Billboard in the 1970s.
In the 1980's he also worked for the Yorkshire Post as a stringer and for the Sunday Times. His ST work included many commissioned articles, mostly about radio but also the music business.
in 1995 Paul co-edited a book with his daughter Dawn called Who's Who in British Radio. This was a directory of people working in the radio business, in front of and behind the microphone. This sold so well they published a further edition in 2002 which was over 600 pages long.
World Broadcast News
Paul then became the UK correspondent for World Broadcast News throughout the 1980s. World Broadcast News was a leading American publication covering radio stations around the world.
Mix Mag
In 1984 he was invited by Tony Prince to write for DMC (Disco Mix Club) - a glossy mag aimed at DJs and the clubbing scene. His occasional radio pieces were expanded into a regular monthly 'column' which eventually covered several pages of news from the radio business around the world.
Paul also chaired discussion panels on radio at the prestigious annual World DJ Convention held in London - usually at the Hippodrome or the Appollo and Dominion in the West End.
RADIO CAROLINE
Paul didn't relish spending the rest of his life at sea as a Ship's Radio Officer and was delighted to join the legendary Radio Caroline in 1973 where he hosted the station's breakfast programme. At that time Radio Caroline was a 'Hot Top 40' radio station. This was ideal ideal for Paul's style of presentation which was very much in the Mecca dance hall 'showman' vein. The station later focussed on a more laid back style playing only album cuts, at which point Paul returned to working in night clubs. Radio Caroline continues to broadcast, but is no longer at sea and can only be heard on AM, DAB and online.
More details of Paul's time with Radio Caroiline
INTERNATIONAL
Paul's skills were then contracted by WBC to various projects in the Middle East, Europe and Scandinavia. He assembled licensing applications for new radio stations in Poland, Lithaunia and the former USSR. This work enabled Paul to combine engineering with management and still keep his hand in programming. WBC won contracts to install (and to repair!) existing stations from the Azores to Zagreb and from Morocco to Finland.
ISome projects were with the existing 'state' run radio stations, sometimes with commercial ventures. Among these 'adventures' were a radio station installed into a street tram to broadcast programmes for Lech Wałęsa's Solidarity. This was sponsored by leading members of the UK Government. He also helped install a UHF TV transmitter inside the Lithuanian parliament, relaying Sky News, after the Russian Army took over the regular TV station in that brave country.
Paul was involved with applications for national radio licences on behalf of several new broadcasters across Europe, including Baltic Radio, Classic FM, Radio 10 Gold, Sky Radio, and Virgin. He worked for several local stations in Holland, Germany and the UK.
Among the state broadcasters that Paul worked for were Nozema in the Netherlands, two federal networks in Germany, and others in Poland, Lebanon and the Middle East. He spoke at (and chaired panels) at MIDEM in Cannes, the World DJ Convention in London and the NAB in Las Vegas. He also presented at a major conference at the IEEE HQ in Washington, DC.
Radio Books
Over the last twenty years Paul has written a variety of books about broadcast management and programming as well as three historical broadcasting works covering one of the most listened to radio stations ever, LASER. He has also written training manuals for radio companies, clients of Worldwide Brodcast Consultants. In 2016, Paul edited and published Internet Broadcasting, a guide to building and launching online radio stations. This was very early in the development of online media - the book hs since been replaced by a more recent title - ONLINE RADIO.
At the behest of several Radio Caroline staff and with the blessing of station founder Ronan O'Rahilly, Paul assembled the definitive RADIO CAROLINE BIBLE in 2019. This has been reprinted several times and a new edition was published at Easter 2026, bringing the story up to date.
In Paul's RADIO FORMATS in the UK and US, became the first guide to radio station programming formats, bringing together information for several private reports he had written for station operators. He has since written a guide to the development of DAB radio in the UK, called DAB & DAB+ the Future of Radio
Click book covers to read more details and 'ORDER' links. or click HERE go to the AUTHOR webpage.
Paul was founder of a company which was licensed to launch an international radio station serving the whole of the British Isles from a high power Long Wave transmitter in the Isle of Man.
The project was called MusicMann 279 and Paul resided in the Isle of Man for over 7 years as the project was developed.
Paul left the IMIB project (Isle of Man International Broadcasting Plc was a public limited company) in 2006 after deciding that the prospects for a national Long Wave radio station were diminishing, along with its chances of commercial success. More details of the company, IMIB plc, and the proposed radio station, to be called
Musicman 279
