HONG Kong's best-known agony aunt, Pamela Pak Wan-kam, appears to have turned down the chance to host a programme on Metro Broadcast's FM Select channel.
Pak - at something of a loose end since Beijing People's Radio dispensed with her services earlier this month because her phone-in programme was deemed to be too popular - has been speaking with Metro's Craig Quick through her manager about a slot on thebilingual FM Select channel.
But last week the plans appeared to have come unstuck as Pak refused to conform to Metro's plans to have her programme go out in the Cantonese and English format.
No thanks, said the Guilin-born broadcaster who is fluent in both languages and Mandarin.
Pak, who hosted a phone-in programme on Commercial Radio, said there was ''no future'' for bilingual radio, or at least the English-language portion in Hong Kong with 1997 less than four years away.
''There is no commercial future for English-language radio in Hong Kong when you are talking about the mass market. What is the point?'' said a plain-speaking Pak, who has also made these sentiments known to Quick and FM Select channel boss Larry London.