The legendary broadcaster left Radio 2 earlier this year after more than three decades at the station.
that he decided to leave Radio 2 when he was not approached about renewing his contract a few months before it was set to come to an end.
“I think I did surprise them, but the fact was I hadn’t been offered any continuation at that point,” he told theBy this point, however, Ken had agreed to his new deal with Greatest Hits and “didn’t want to get into a bidding war”. He was initially set to host his show until the end of March, but his time on air was eventually cut short, causing him to leave 17 days earlier than anticipated.“That was disappointing,” he told the Mail. “I thought, ’Come on, you can trust me. I’m not going to do a Dave Lee Travis [and] start badmouthing everybody, because I had a lovely time at the BBC. So it was all a bit... unnecessary.”
Ken, who worked at the BBC for more than four decades in total, previously trademarked his PopMaster quiz format, a mainstay of his Radio 2 show. As a result, he was able to bring it over to his Greatest Hits slot, and also recently launched a TV version of the game with Channel 4.
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