[10] Little has been heard of these characters since the format of 2ZB changed to news/talk in the late 1990s, and his community-oriented breakfast show was replaced with news and interviews.
[13] There was considerable local support for Yeo and opposition to his removal from Newstalk ZB to be replaced by Paul Holmes whose breakfast show was networked from Auckland.
[16] Support for Yeo and local radio shows rather than content produced in Auckland continued with Wellington mayors meeting Newstalk ZB managers.
it was kinda fun – a loud but genuinely Kiwi version of breakfast bounce, right down to the overgrown buzzy bee mascot.
"[19]Yeo won the metropolitan station section of Local Air Personality of the Year in the Mobil Radio Awards in 1982.
[21] In early 1984, he returned to Invercargill to do a special broadcast on 4ZA after the city and Southland towns were affected by flooding.
[23] In 2016, he launched a hobby radio station, Radiyo Richmond, broadcasting on a low power frequency to the local area from his home studio, and playing "non-stop pleasant music from all genres" aimed at listeners in his own age group.
[7] Jan and Lindsay Yeo ran various businesses, including a fancy dress costume shop in Karori and rest homes.