Do you guys listen to Biz FM? 89.9 yah. Well I do, almost every weekdays when I am driving to work and getting back home from work.
I’m not too worried about the quality of the music. Since I mostly listen to noise, metal, rock, the occasional double bass drum, siren, explosion, grinding metal and screaming only accentuate the already apparent awesomeness of what I’m burning holes in my ear drums with. I’m really beginning to like this radio station. Not only do I like their approach to business interviews, but that was the most straight forward, unintentionally entertaining, non-bullshit radio station I’ve EVER heard. I mean, yeah, it was dippy radio stuff, but seriously, can you imagine any other main stream radio station allowing their program hosts to represent the mothership without the message first passing through a legion of marketing directors, lawyers and various haircuts in suits? Hell no! So this radio station is really cool. They’ve got cool programs and I especially love “Life’s A Pitch” and “Thank Friday It’s Football”. But, you all know me, I never stop complaining.
The Morning Run
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this program has the most listener due to it’s strategically airing time. Sometimes I really wonder if we, Malaysians and in Malaysia, is it so difficult to find a good and professional radio host/interviewer? Khoo Hsu Chuang has this very bad habit. The regular usage of “errmm…”, “uhhhh….” etc in his speech. I’m not saying that he is not good, he is very resourceful and knowledgeable but this program is related to business and professionals. If they wanna move forward to be one of the best radio station, they need to have a good line up. You don’t play an unproven 15 year old kid in the Barcelona squad against Manchester United in the Champions League Final.
David Chew is awesome. He doesn’t talk too much but he keeps it short and simple. Noelle Lim talks like a jet but she has got the balls.
Evening Edition
Caroline Oh is perfect for this program. She has a very cheerful and friendly character. And the dude with her, I think his name is Umar or something. Is he fuxing high on steroid? I think he talks more than anyone in this program when the one being interviewed should be talking. He is a lousy interviewer. He can make one simple question to be incredibly and ridiculously long. For example, if you would like to know someone’s name, you ask “What is your name?”. Period. As simple as that. But this dude can go as long as “I understand that you have a father and a mother. They were married in 1945 and you were born 3 years after that. And I also believe, you were born in Kuching. And adding to that, I also believe that your parents gave you a name. So what exactly is your name?”. And adding misery to this program, he likes to interrupt the conversation. Out of no where, when people are talking, be it his colleague or the guest, he will jump in with questions. To further strengthen his “professionalism”, he actually doesn’t know how to pronounce the guest’s name. I’m not in this industry but I believe, with respect, an interviewer should be doing his/her homework before the interview such as the guest’s name (and how to pronounce it), profile and etc. Seriously, leave it Caroline. She’s doing an amazing job.









