Weeks after having being axed from Triple M, radio veteran Luke Bona has been picked up by talk station 2GB.

Brenden Wood reports: Radio management at 2GB have hired Mr Bona to be on standby as a replacement presenter across key shifts on the station. Bona told 2GB’s Ben Fordham that Station Manager and National Content Manager Greg Byrnes had initially hired him to host the 2GB drive show across Easter while regular presenter Clinton Maynard takes a break.

“2GB was my first job out of school. 18th of September 1978. (I was an) office boy, and then I became a panel operator,” said Mr Bona, who had previously worked at 2GB for 12 years.

Until a month ago, Mr Bona had been broadcasting to more than 70 radio stations across Australia each night from his Triple M studio in Sydney before it was axed in a cost-saving move by management.

He hosted the show for more than eight years.

Bona will join former colleague Mark ‘MG’ Geyer at 2GB after he too was dumped during Triple M’s line up shake-up.
Former WSFM morning announcer Phil O’Neil was recently recruited by 2GB, and is now the overnight personality.
Since departing Triple M, Bona has been producing content for his new podcast, ‘Bonafide’, with the first episode to be uploaded this week.

Story courtesy of Daily Telegraph