The focus turns to Gavin Spittle, the young program director tasked with holding together a station full of big personalities, bigger egos, and almost no guardrails. Through stories from hosts, producers, and staff, a complicated picture emerges of a guy who wanted to build something special and, at times, genuinely connected with the people around him, but who also struggled to manage the power dynamics inside the building. His relationship with Russ Martin sits at the center of it all, with multiple accounts describing a situation where control of the station quietly shifted, leaving Gavin in a position where he could influence everyone except the one show that mattered most.
As the stories stack up, the consequences of that imbalance become hard to ignore. Staff recall being warned not to challenge or even mention certain names on the air, while others describe moments where authority broke down completely, both inside the studio and out at station events. Gavin is remembered as supportive, inconsistent, frustrating, and at times impossible to read, someone who could offer real guidance one minute and make decisions that undercut his own team the next. By the end, he comes into focus as a central but conflicted figure, a program director caught between ambition, loyalty, and pressure, whose choices and limitations helped shape both the culture of Live 105.3 and the cracks that would eventually bring it down. [Ep 6]
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