Here's the story of how it started — and how it runs today.
All the way back in 1984, Olivier Mauxion hosted his first radio show on Angers 101 — he was just 15.
For the next 30 years, he built radio stations across Europe, working in 16 countries with more than 40 stations along the way.
After hosting several well-known shows on French radio, he became programme director of OUI FM — France's first rock station — and later of Lagardère Active Radio International (LARI), a network spanning 7 countries, 23 radio stations and a daily audience of over 33.5 million people.
Since 2004, he has also been Vice President of Power Media Group in Turkey, and sits on the board of RIAK, the representative body for Turkey's commercial radio broadcasters.
In 2012, he moved to Ireland and launched a new station, URadio, before founding Nextwave Media Limited in 2018 and Eirewave in Belfast in December 2020.
How it runs today
Each side of the group runs on its own team. Eirewave is powered by its on-air presenters every day. MeanScore's platform is built and maintained with developer Thomas Bertin, who has worked with Ouest France — the world's largest French-language daily newspaper, with 2.52 million readers — and, since 2006, with a wide range of startups. Loganberry is Nextwave's production studio, producing mashups, jingles and shows for radio, brands and artists — Craic Machine, our in-house music collective, and The Backstage Pass, produced with Peter Kirkpatrick, are two examples — alongside coaching for presenters and programming teams. And PlayIrish, launched in 2026, takes that same love of music into streetwear: graphic apparel inspired by Irish music and instruments, made to order to limit waste.