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What happened to Linda on 99.7?

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I don’t listen to 99.7 at all but a lot of people do and a couple of weeks back a friend asked me if I had heard the morning show recently since Linda was no longer on and instead two other hosts instead who are supposedly a mess. Then a few days back some readers started complaining about the two new hosts under one of my posts and awhile ago someone left the following comment:

Right now the rumor is that Linda from 99.7 has left Kuwait permanently which comes as a surprise to all of us. Though she wasn’t a favorite of everyone, she was certainly a part of Kuwait in her own way. She hosted the morning radio show for as long as I can remember. I’m sure not hearing her in the mornings must be a stark reminder of the changes Kuwait is currently experiencing.

I originally figured she just left on vacation but I wonder if she had a Latina Mina incident on air and had to leave the country like her?

95 replies on “What happened to Linda on 99.7?”

All I remember is personal stuff she used to talk about on-air but I don’t think I’ve listened to the radio in 10 years.

Her eldest daughter and grandchildren just moved back to the US. She is on vacation with them. I’m not sure if she will return or not but I think it’s just her summer vacation.

I don’t listen to her show but she is a very sweet lady who loves Kuwait.

so many disliking her, wait is she the one who keep on preaching and preaching and make lectures and stuff

Wouldn’t it be Ironic if she was deported for her driving violations, and kept low profile for it :p

If you don’t listen to 99.7, then what do you listen to whilst driving? I know when I go to Dubai, I love the DJ’s there! I also listen to CD’s that I bought in Dubai, mostly techno which nobody plays in Kuwait, although if you saw the crowd at the last David Guetta concert in Dubai, it may have been 1/3 Kuwaitis. So the Kuwaitis do understand good music at least in my opinion.

Mark, Is spotify working in Kuwait? I had a UK registered account but it started reading the IP address and I got cut off. Have you found another way round?

Haha! That is so true. I don’t want her back because I want to listen to her. I want her back just to not upset the balance of things.

Maybe she just went on vacation. It seems like she has school-going aged kids. She is pretty dull even though we have heard her since the 90’s, you think she would have made us all connect in some way. But too preachy for my tastes. Also if it was not bad enuff that she ruined our drives to work, she started showing up on the way back home too with her gaba blah blah show. Seriously no one cares for American Idol/voice/x factor and whatever, and dont even get me started on her boring recipes. Her series of talks on diabetes would have earned her some credit but all the doctors she invited sounded retarded and bored except for one cool doctor who said that he used to make his wife and kids watch Star Wars with him all the time and they found it very nerdy : )

The new kids are a nose bleed. Most of the time they struggle to read, and don’t make any sense. I hope they are a short term solution and we get some good like Vicky or Roger… Or even bring back the nerdy star wars loving kuwaiti diabetes doctor who had a good radio presence considering he was in-experienced..just sayin

“the new kids are a nose bleed…” +1

DJ Yakky and DJ Sappy equate to a morning full of unprofessional, cringe-worthy, teenaged-jargon filled “amazing” “awesome” music to commit suicide to. I only tune in to make fun.

This morning, they had a “fashion expert,” local guy, Fahad Al-Shammari, who told them “I’m not a fashion expert.” They went on to continue to call him a fashion expert and then I lost count at the “amazings” at around 100.

so the channel’s morning show continues to cater to the preteens post Linda too? One helluva demographic to please for the sole English language local morning show on air in Kuwait.

she is ALWAYS complaining of road traffic. notice this, notice that…. she’s the only one who drives good, it seems.

and she FORGETS to crank up the volume back AFTER she does her blabbering (which is non-stop, scripted advertisements anyway)

She’s not all that sweet as she projects on air. What she is on personal life may be different altogether 🙂

before she went off the air completely, i think i heard her voice on the radio during the evenings.

Douche comment on attacking her personally. What she is in her personal life is none of our business nor has anything to do with her job/the context we know her.

I don’t care for the rest of her blabbering but the scripted advertisements are part of what funds the show and she has to go along with it. Unless you’d like to pitch in with your own donation campaign 🙂

Well said TellMeAboutit and Xandra.alsayer. She is just executing her tasks here just like all of us.

Is she the one who gives you health tips and then tells you how awesome Burger King & other fast food joints are?

Yes, and how she gushes over all those bank promotions/raffles, burger joints, clothing sales and she even shrieks like a 10-year old sometimes, lol.

I used to listen to her a lot in the mornings from when I was a kid. Kinda miss her knowing now that she left without a proper good bye.

Anyways in recent times all I hear are more of her advertising something than the songs she plays.

And for God’s sake Mr. Ali AlFatah please deport the 2 new hosts.

hey, i actually know linda and her family personally, she is infact married to a kuwaiti from al shammari family, she went back to America, North Carolina to be specific with her family, for good.

I wish her all the best. While she liked Kuwait, she always wanted to move back to the US? Being here made her bitter.

I don’t listen to 99.7 much as well. However I did hear the two new presenters (both sound Kuwaitis, guy and girl). Must admit I prefer them over Linda despite the fact that I changed the station after few minutes and as soon I heard the lady say something dumb. But I’d usually tune to other station anyway cuz I can’t stand any of the people that talk at 99.7.

I didnt like linda’s show that much but she is 1000 times better than those lame ass so-called DJ’s that are running the show now. They are soo annoying and their accent hurt my ears. I stopped tuning into 99.7 RK FM since they took over.

i agree. ..no big fan of Linda- although, I suppose she is nice in her own way.
But these 2 youngsters…make my ears hurt ..so i just tune to VOA!!

I 100% agree with you! Linda was apart of my childhood, I used to listen to her going to school. Even though she was annoying at times I still tune in now on my way to work. But these two teenagers that they have hired now are horrible! Bring back linda!

Although I did not like listening to her, I did not mind her talks on driving, she was just making an effort for drivers to be cautious as lives were involved. Would not hold her to that!

HANIIIIII!!!! the wonderful (read not) meteorologist who used to say ‘anyways’ like a 100 times and then would finish off with a disclaimer.

‘Who knows, maybe the weather will change and not be anything like what i just said, I mean what do u think i am doing, predicting the weather (oh wait, thats exactly what I am doing here). ‘

I use to listen to 99.7 but since the new DJ/presenters started, I can’t even if I try! They suck the energy out of me with their super lame comments and rubbish music. Today they went on and on about how Kuwaitis have good sense of fashion and wear better than celebrity. They started with good sense, then great sense, then unique sense, then best sense in the world !!!! and specially how girls in Kuwait wear make up exceptionally good !!!!! they just couldn’t stop themselves of repeating the same thing .

I heard that she left kuwait for good too. Apparently her husband was very controlling and her paycheck went straight to him. She eventually had enough and went to the states without informing anyone beforehand. I heard that from a friend who was close to one of her children.

The morning show is really really bad now. Seriously, the girl and guy DJ’s sound like they mean well but they:
1) Do not know how to speak proper English
2) Are NOT funny at all
3) Sometimes just sound quite silly to be honest.

To both of the DJ’s – if you read all of this – do not get disheartened but recognise that you need to seriously raise your game. You are very lucky that Kuwait does not have alternative English radio stations or your ratings would crash.

Linda may have not been the best DJ, may have not been the most “hip” either, for God’s sake this was a grown lady years and years ago when I was back in school. Let us not forget she is of an older generation. Her taste in music will be different, I think she liked country…

2 many haters, the funny thing is I bet most of you would fail at even putting together half of a coherent sentence on air.

Just remember this was a woman that was waking up every morning to do her show, and I always remember her being cheerful and happy. Being cheerful and happy everyday, as an American woman, in Kuwait, I would imagine is a hard thing. Actually I don’t need to imagine this I KNOW THIS.

Out of all the DJ’s that have ever been on 99.7, Linda will definitely be the most memorable because of her charisma and attitude.

She was never a good DJ..She never played any good music..Always used to cater to the retard generation that we have now..To me it just seemed like she was trying very hard to be ‘HIP’ and blend in with todays tweens (u know Twilight loving shitheads)..I could tolerate upto a point.But there came a day when I couldnt take it anymore. I remember exactly when it happened. It was 3 years ago, during her show there was request from someone to play AC/DC, you know what she said??..She said she cant/wont/doesnt play music like that and then proceeded to play Miley ‘EFFIN’ Cyrus’ Party in the USA!!!..That was when I went “Thats it Im out!! I cant listen to this shitty lady nemore!”

True Abdulkareem, I’m on your side coz she’s on FM 99.7 since 1991. I met her in Camp Arifjan and she was cheerful n happy woman. Linda did her best as host n did what was requested by the radio station. Why should we comment bad about her, after so many years of dedication to FM Radio service she has scarificed her entire life. I bet there good dj’s in Kuwait, so why didn’t the host bring talented dj’s to the show, I guess they could not find better dj’s to challenge Linda at her two hours morning show.So people if you can’t comment good please don’t comment bad too, its not good for your health. All I want to say to Linda Thankyou very much and God bless you and family.

At least Linda was a Dj,spoke english,could make a sentence and go with the flow no matter how bad it got.. Sure she was a lot of talk and kept telling us to put our seat belts on and drive safe but I put that that down to her age and her wanting to be a mama hen watching over her chicks. At least she could talk and you could understand her. On the other hand these 02 dick heads/ass wipes who are on the air right now just want to make you diasable your air bag system, remove your seat belt and crash head on at a 100 mph into the back of a dump truck just to get their nasaly high pitched LSD tripped out voices out of your head!!!!!!! They absoultel suck. My 05 year old neice speaks better english then they do.. Shit they are the reason normal peoiple go insane and say they hear voices in their heads telling them to go postal. THESE ARE THOSE VOICES coming out of your radio. Soon you will see pile ups all over the place in the morning and you will know why !!!

Hahaha securityadvisor LMAO, i haven’t heard their talk show since i stopped listening to 99.7 back when DJ ICE hanged his gloves in the mid 90s …. but your rip of the two dumba$$es is a true trip. TOUCHE 8-pPp

I very much doubt she knew anything about ‘DJ’ing. In any case, a barking seal is better than Linda. ANYTHING is better than Linda.

Sure Linda was a bit talkative but at least she knew how to speak proper english! The new hosts talk more than Linda did and can’t even construct a sentence without breaking all grammar rules, send them back to the 2nd grade where they belong!
They should bring DJ Sandy back who hosted the Night Ride last year, she was funny and knew how to speak english. 99.7 may have been bad when Linda was on but now it’s even worse! Also, VOA is great when they don’t play their english 101 lessons! (which the 2 new hosts need to listen to)

What about the two America DJs (or had American accents) that held the karaoke show.. what happened to them?

It also isn’t about the other options we have – it highlights lack in another aspect of development.

Surely we should be able to have a better radio show on just for the sake of it! Otherwise, its akin to not being concerned about improving healthcare here because you have the resources to fly abroad and avail better. Granted radio shows aren’t on parity with improving a country’s healthcare but as an example 🙂

i personally know auntie linda and her amazing daughters
and grand children. first off, people’s business are private. if
you dont know about something, then you shouldnt try with all your
might to insult or criticize someone who has never done any harm to
you. secondly, she left for vacation (it is summer time you know)
and whether she comes back or not is actually not your business at
all.

Linda is/was a public figure providing a service. People have every right to speak about a public figure and/or the service they provide.

Thing is, i never said anything about talking about the “service she provides” people are making extremly rude comments about her personality and the way she speaks.. Nobody is perfect chill a bit and realize she is older than most of you and she deserves respect. Also, what if the reason she left was a serious matter, do you think you she needs all this extra side talk?

I know Lindas daughters, they recently moved back to the States permanently for Collage purposes dealing with the younger daughter.
She was awesome, anyways peace out 😀

Her daughter was with me in school she moved to north carolina towards the end of may beginning of june-ish. And they chose to move, no one was deported or fired. They were really super nice down to earth people.

I thought she was on a long vacation since she hardly even takes any vacations, always annoying us on the air with her crap. Thank god she’s gone, good riddance I say.

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