{UAH} Will Sanyu FM sink without Fat Boy?
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Will Sanyu FM sink without Fat Boy?
James Onen is the last big name to depart FM Radio at Sanyu FM
The well-respected 44-year old follows big names like Allan Kasujja, Seanice Kacungira, RS Elvis, Rasta Rob, Melanie Kaita, Dr. Mich Egwang, and Crystal Newman out of the doors.
Fat Boy joined the station five years after its inception in 1993 when it was still called Radio Sanyu under the Katto Family. Fresh from India, he was one of the fresh faces that gave it oomph, under the new ownership of the Ruparelia Group.
He joined at a time when the likes of Mich had become synonymous with the station. At the time, Mich had a legion of followers with his popular Alive and Kicking show on Saturday mornings. At the time he left, Fat Boy had made the show his own.
When he worked with the Sanyu Breakfast show, Fat Boy's leftist views especially on issues like feminism got him a fair share of friends and foes. His love-hate on air relationship with Melanie Kaita and Seanice Kacungira, and won him fans.
Like some of his keen followers observe, you need a certain level of wit, exposure, humour and sarcasm to be able to understand Fat Boy. However, like all of them, no one is indispensable. Everyone is replaceable on radio.
"Fat Boy is a brilliant broadcaster who has been an integral part of Sanyu FM for years. It is right to mention him among the God fathers of FM radio in Uganda. However, like those before him, he will move on and Sanyu FM will move on without him," A radio critic on condition of anonymity said.
His core fans, who identify with the cool corporate, have gone on social media to suggest that the station is going to struggle with Fat Boy's departure.
However, the radio critic says that his loyal fan base will easily move on. "Seanice was as big as Fat Boy on Sanyu FM. She moved and has since been replaced. Where is Crystal Newman, Allan Kasujja, John Miles (Koko Banton), RS Elvis and Rasta Rob? They were big names at Crane Chambers. Who cares about them now? He queries.
He however reckons that whereas comedian Salvador Idringi has a big following, age is not his best ally. At his age, me might not appeal to the large demographic of the mainly youthful listeners who form a bulk of the stations listeners. They need a young breed of presenters," he said.
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