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It is important to say that this year, like any other year, has been full of activities. Many things happened in the entertainment front and we shall catalogue some of them before the year ends, or even so when the year ends, to reflect on them.<\/p>\n

Also, on the radio and television front there were some major happenstances that in the coming week I am going to do the year in review of so we are reminded of some of the epochal periods of broadcast landscape during the year 2015.<\/p>\n

RADIO PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR<\/strong>: NANA AMA ASANTE: Today, I have set myself to naming the one person that I think deserve to be the Radio Personality of the Year and after I have given the justification for my choice, I will also name the person who in my view is the Television Personality of the Year and justify it.<\/p>\n

Over the last couple of years or so, Citi FM has tried to adopt a laissez-faire approach to running their morning show. Bernard Avle comes on air with his team of analysts, discussants and opinion sharing colleagues to talk about any topic they feel like talking about.<\/p>\n

There is usually no rhyme of reason to the topics to be treated on depending on the mood of the day the topics to be treated are jettisoned for the most topical issue of the day or week and they discuss it to the very end with able support, usually from listeners\u2019 contribution from social media.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The panelists on Avle\u2019s show usually are Kwadwo Akoto Boateng, Richard Dela Sky, Godfred Akoto Boafo and Nana Ama Agyeman Asante.<\/p>\n

Over the years, since she has been on the show, Nana Ama has shown that she has the cojones (hope she doesn\u2019t get offended by this word) to be a commentator on issues that have to do with governance, politics and economics.<\/p>\n

Look, we have built a nation that thrives on suspicion and lack of thrust. People cannot express their opinion in support of any ruling government\u2019s action without being tagged as being in bed with the government, nor can they express a dissenting view about an action of the government without being tagged as opposition.<\/p>\n

It is therefore very rare to see young people who would go out of their way to express themselves in the manner they deem fit and damn what people would say.<\/p>\n

I find Nana Ama Agyeman Asante as one of such young people who speaks her mind regardless of the spin or interpretation put on it.<\/p>\n

This year has been one that she really came out with all gun blazing on Citi FM\u2019s breakfast show to express herself on issues relating to \u201cdumsor\u201d, corruption or allegations thereof and generally about the way things get done in this country.<\/p>\n

She shot like an arrow, pounced like a cobra, stung like a scorpion and just delivered that uppercut like Joe Frazier. She pulled no punches on any matter at all and sometimes you cringed when she says something you thought was too dangerous for her to say.<\/p>\n

You will disagree with Nana Ama, and I find myself disagreeing with her on countless occasions, but you will respect her opinion and bravado with which she goes about expressing it.<\/p>\n

Many times you felt she wasn\u2019t right about some of her views, but she say it with so much conviction you give it to her.<\/p>\n

Nana Ama is an unashamed feminist. She sees the world as a place where men have made it impossible for women to function to the best of their abilities, at least that is how it comes across from her conversations on radio and on Twitter and Facebook.<\/p>\n

So for her bravado and the fact that she goes to any length to say what she believes and sticks to it, even when she is wrong and also the fact that she is one lady among a host of men delivering her punches to anyone who appears on her radar who she thinks deserved to be punched, Nana Ama Agyeman Asante, an Online Editor Citi FM is my Radio Personality of the Year 2015.<\/p>\n

TV PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR<\/strong>: NANA ABA ANAMOAH: For more than a decade, Nana Aba Anamoah has been known to viewers of television, especially after cutting her teeth at GTV and moving on to next door neighbor TV3.<\/p>\n

As a new presenter and broadcast journalist, Nana Aba had covered every news there was to be covered and she had endeared herself well to the station and its viewers.<\/p>\n

When in 2010 the station introduced a new sports show for women with a woman as host called Diva Show, she was chosen to be the host.<\/p>\n

This was a show she hosted for five years and during that period interviewed many people who either passed through to talk about football and other sports or about an event that would happen somewhere. She also became the head of sports at the station, besides her on-air roles.<\/p>\n

However, 2015 would be the year that would end all that good relationship that had existed between Nana Aba Aba Anamoah and TV3 as a suspension of her by the station would eventually lead to her resignation.<\/p>\n

In late September, the bubbly presenter, who is a very active personality on Twitter with almost 200,000 followers, tried to play a prank on her followers.<\/p>\n

She shared a photo of her friend who was at Old Trafford to watch a match of Manchester United.<\/p>\n

The prank was to make her followers believe she was at Old Trafford in Manchester, UK. Unfortunately for her, another person who was with her friend thought she had stolen the photos and passed them off as her own. He tweeted his anger at her action.<\/p>\n

That was how Twitter decided to take Nana Aba to the cleaners with several memes and jokes created to insinuate that she had photoshoped herself into Old Trafford. The issue went into mainstream as many people took her on and demanded an action to be taken.<\/p>\n

She protested her innocence and the fact that she was only joking. However, the management of TV3 didn\u2019t take it kindly they have been drawn into the matter and therefore suspended her indefinitely.<\/p>\n

Twitter, which had vilified her earlier then came to her aid with a hashtag #bringbacknanaaba with several celebrities and popular people adding their voice both online and offline for the station to change its decision and reinstate her.<\/p>\n

The station did not and exactly one month after she was handed the suspension from the station, Nana Aba Anamoah resigned.<\/p>\n

There were several rumours about where she would appear next and finally it was made known that she had joined GhOne TV, which had earlier been acquired by EIB Network.<\/p>\n

So for the fact that she shook the television front more than any other person both on tradition media and social media and her name went farther than anyone one else on Ghanaian television during the year being reviewed, my Television Personality of the Year 2015 is Nana Aba Anamoah.<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas to you all.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

By: Francis Doku<\/p>\n

@TheGHMediaGuru<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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