Top 5 Big Radio Personalities Who Have Left Metro FM Over The Years
Top 5 Big Radio Personalities Who Have Left Metro FM Over The Years. Every radio station will kill to have them in their slots. These radio personalities have such a huge following that they can successfully start their own thing. At the end of the day though, they are just employees who can be replaced like any other person.
Check out the top 5 radio starts who have left Metro FM over the years, and the circumstances that prompted their exit.
1. DJ Fresh
This one happened recently and it’s still fresh on our minds. DJ Fresh’s contract was terminated by Metro FM a day ago. The media personality used offensive language live on air, and was suspended. After his talks with the management went futile, they decided to let him go.
2. Bonang Matheba
Bonang shocked her listeners back in 2017 when she announced she was stepping down as host of ‘The Front Row’ on Metro FM. This was because the media personality was told about the changes to her hit show only an hour before it began.
3. Glen Lewis
After more than two decades, veteran radio DJ Glen Lewis, parted ways with Metro FM in 2017. The veteran radio personality took over the Breakfast show on the revamped Touch HD. Unfortunately things didn’t work work out for him there and he subsequently left.
4. Tbo Touch
Tbo Touch left Metro FM in June 2016 year and start his online radio station. After 11 years of being with public broadcaster, Touch quit over the SABC’s refusal to deny reports that he had been taken off air for a week for refusing to read a Hyundai advert, to which the SABC later lost R15-million worth of advertising.
5. Phat Joe
The controversial presenter was the host of Metro FM’s breakfast show on Saturday. Among the jaw dropping things he said on air was when he and co-host, Pearl Thusi, “allegedly daily bashed” their colleague Bonang Matheba and rapper Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes on the show.
