Michael Betton is Chief Executive of Lincs FM Group.  He is also Chairman of the Commercial Radio Pension Trustees Limited and a director of the RadioCentre. Michael started his radio career with Radio Orwell in Ipswich.  He moved to be the launch programme controller of Ocean Sound in 1986 becoming managing director in 1990.

He set up Lincs FM in 1991 to apply for the newly advertised Lincoln licence, which was to be the first competitively awarded licence by the Radio Authority. Since then the Lincs FM Group has grown, holding eleven licences throughout Lincolnshire, the Midlands and Yorkshire.  Michael is also Chair of the RadioCentre Public Affairs Sub-Committee.