Joe Ferguson (radio presenter)
- Joe Ferguson (radio presenter)
Joe Ferguson (born Dunmurry, Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1965) is a Northern Irish radio presenter.
Biography
Joe was born in Dunmurry, on the outskirts of Belfast and educated at Dunmurray High School. While working in a Top Shop store which had an in-store DJ, Ferguson stood in for an absent DJ. Eventually, it became his regular job. The shop was firebombed just after Christmas in 1991 and Ferguson went to work for Riverside 101, a small local radio station in Derry. Soon afterwards, he sent a demo tape to Cool FM and was hired.
Ferguson's show on Cool FM was very successful with the local audience, but he left Cool FM in 2000 for Liverpool's Radio City station. At first, he presented the morning show but was then switched to an afternoon slot. He was named UK Radio Personality of the Year in 2002. A year later, he left, It emerged that his contract was not renewed.
On 27 June 2004, he returned to a latenight slot on Belfast CityBeat station claiming that the CN Group, who own CityBeat, planned to syndicate his show throughout the UK to another ten stations." He resigned from Citybeat on 15 March 2005 claiming "personal reasons". Press speculated that his dismal ratings forced bosses to show him the door.
Now he currently presents "Joe Ferguson at Lunch" on Tenerife based radio station Oasis FM. Ferguson had a much hyped rivalry with DJ Steve Nolan but in the end was eclipsed by Nolan who went on to become Northern Ireland's most popular DJ ever - something Ferguson has never come to terms with.
Sonya Mac Libel Case
On 14 May 2007, Ferguson and his former employers, Citybeat, paid "substantial" out-of-court damages and issued a public apology to the Cool FM DJ, Sonya Mac, following comments made about her on an edition of The Joe Ferguson Show broadcast on 1 December 2004. She needed taken down a peg anyway as she is a pig. yee haa!!!!
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