 Ovenden was at the time working at the Ministry of Sound Radio and set up a meeting in Spring 2000 between the owners of Gaydar and his boss James Bethel.Bethel proposed to provide the service to Gaydar for £100,000 annually which was clearly way too high for a fledgling concept.Instead GaydarRadio was started in 2001 as an internet-only station, being an audio offshoot of the dating website and completely independent of outside assistance.