In a previous article, we revealed to you the four people who have captained Inooro FM since its inception in 2003.
Inooro FM was the third Gikuyu radio station to hit the airwaves after Kameme FM and Coro FM which launched in years 2000 and 2001 respectively.
It would, therefore, be a bit unfair to fail to recognise the behind the scenes hands that have steered the vernacular mother radio station, Kameme FM, for the last 18 years.
In this article, we focus on four notable names that have led the Kameme FM on-air team since 2000.
However, it is worth noting that Kameme FM's management at its initial stages was not clearly defined as its founder and then proprietor, Rose Kimotho, was kind of an all-around boss on all matters pertaining the management of the station.
Kimotho, who is a veteran journalist, would, however, bring on board her brother David Kimotho as a director as the station expanded calling for an expanded managerial team.
That said, we enumerate below the four people who have served as the station's heads of radio since Kameme started to date.
1. Kiriethe Wamutitu
After Rose Kimotho decided to shed-off Kameme FM's 'family-business' tag, in 2004 she appointed Wamutitu as the head of Kameme who was tasked to oversee the expansion of Kameme FM transmission beyond Nairobi and its environs where it had solely transmitted since inception.
When Kameme changed ownership in 2010, Wamutitu would implement a change of management drive that saw some of the station's former notable names who had earlier decamped to Inooro FM return.
Among them include Njogu Wa Njoroge and Peninah Muthoni Mbugua alias PM². Wamutitu would, however, leave Kameme FM two years later for personal business. Currently, he is the head of KBC's 22 radio services (business wing) where he joined in May 2017.
2. Wanjiku Wa Kibe
Wanjiku took over Kameme FM leadership after Wamutitu left. Before then, she was the station's 'Canjamuka' mid-morning show host.
Wanjiku's stint at the management level would, however, be cut short after she was hounded out due to the station's plummeting audience ratings ahead of the 2013 general elections. She is the current Gatundu North MP following her contested election in 2017.
3. Gathoni Wa Muchomba
Following Wanjiku's unceremonial exit from Kameme FM, the station's mother company, Mediamax Network Limited, would bring on board former Kameme FM mid-morning show presenter Gathoni Wa Muchomba who had left the station 10 years earlier to go and oversee the launch of Inooro FM as the head of radio.
Her exemplary performance at Inooro FM where she also doubled as the breakfast presenter might have motivated the Mediamax Network management team to recall her to help change the station's then dwindling fortunes.
Gathoni introduced several drastic changes at the station including attempts to change the station's long-time slogan 'kayu ka muingi' (voice of the people) which boomeranged on her face badly.
Wa Muchomba is currently serving as Kiambu Women Representative following her landslide win during last year's general elections.
4. Gatonye Wa Mbugua
He is the current Kameme FM head of radio having taken over from Wa Muchomba who did not last long at the station's management after many of her drastic changes flopped.
Gatonye who also doubles as the station's 'Arahuka' breakfast show presenter alongside comedian Mzee Kiengei, has been at Kameme FM for many years where he started as a voice-over artist.
He hosted 'Arahuka' uninterrupted between years 2007 and 2010 when its then presenter Njogu Wa Njoroge had decamped to Inooro FM.
Upon Njogu's return in 2010, Gatonye would pave way for him up to early 2017 when Njogu decamped again to the newly launched, Gukena FM.
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