Presenters’ Guide started initially as a personality profile program targeted at radio presenters and what they go through in their everyday lives was aired on TV3 every Monday at 12:30 p.m.

The program saw a lot of presenters passing through and the host was Emmanuel Markay who interviews them with footage showing how their daily activities are carried out.

Later the presenters were reduced to ten (10) which became highly competitive instead of the original concept of interviewing with mounts of footage. The beginning of the competition was also the starting point of the controversy.

The controversy started when the organizers of the program refused to pay the presenters their participation fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000) and due to this two of the contestants refused to take part in the competition. Many were those who did not side with them but now I think all these people will understand why they took that bold step.

The program took off smoothly and the controversies cooled down. The first evictee was Yaw Nkrumah (Adwuma Wura) and he was evicted because he did not turn up that day. The second evictee was the man they adjudged the winner for the competition - late Mufty Dabre. Ekow Poncho was the last to be ejected out of the competition and the grand finale was announced by one of the contestants that it will be held in Kumasi. The other presenters were not happy with what was going on and saw that person more of an organizer than a competitor, which connotes downplay.

Series of meetings were held between Onetouch Network, the major sponsor of the program, and the presenters to resolve the one thousand-dollar issue just to bring them back on stage for the finals. The final meeting was held on Thursday 21st June 2007, the early hours before the program. The money was converted into the Ghanaian cedi and paid to them before they finally agreed to appear on the program.

The program took off at 9:00 p.m. as scheduled and the emcee for the program was Nana Aba Anamoah, the regular presenter for the show. A play back of the late Mufty Dabre’s previous performances was shown and a poetry recital from Archibald Nana Owuahene Acheampong in honour of late Mufty was given.

All the presenters appeared in Onetouch T-shirt and had red bands tied around their heads, hands and arms signifying the loss of their dear brother. The D.J. for the night was Dj Pepsi who thrilled the audience with good music to welcome them all to the program. Turbo B was the first to mount the stage for the first round and he started with a minute silence for the parted brother. He then continued with his varied music genre mixes and talk over. Ashanti’s Finest ( Andy Dosty) was next with his father seated in front row to give his support.
He did his own thing again; that is playing music without the earphones.

Madam ‘High Tension’ Delay also took her turn and again never let her funs down. She did her own thing: that is her usual funny talks and people couldn’t help in laughing. The man who claims to be neither a comedian nor a clown was next. Wofa K was also not left out. He came in to add a little spice to the program. Ganja Minister - Blakk Rasta, once again bounced back with the herb issue and went ahead to quote Genesis Chapter 1 versus 30. Ebo’o was also there to grace the program with his remixed version of his “once twice” music.

The second part of the competition was the talk and phone-in segment and all the five had their topic to talk about. Turbo B spoke about road accident; Andy Dosty tackled piracy whilst the only lady among the gentlemen was this time a woman activist. Wofa K still spoke about the energy crises, a topic he has been handling from the onset of the competition. Conscious Rasta Man did his own thing by thumbing up the oil discovery in Ghana.

The competition was over and the presenters were all lined up upstage for the crowning of the best presenter. Before that hampers from F.C Perfumery were shared among all the five remaining presenters. The emcee then announced a decision made by the five competitors that they have agreed to share the prize at stake: that was the ten thousand dollars equally among them which saw late Mufty being adjudged the winner for the competition because he was dead meanwhile he had earlier been evicted. They also made mention of doing something for the daughter he left behind - Relwaana Amaama Dabre.

The presentation was done by Kwasi Aboagye, the host for “Entertainment Review” on Peace FM.

Envelopes indicating the positions of all the competitors were given out to them and Weekly Fylla can boldly say Delay was the winner of the competition according to the envelope she was given whiles Andy Dosty had an envelope with 3rd prize written on it. The envelopes were distributed by Markay to the presenters after the end of the program at the back stage.

The daunting question to ask is: if the prize had been a house, car or air ticket would it have been shared among the five contestants? What exactly do they have for the little girl? And those evicted, what do they take home for participating in the competition?

In the nutshell, the entire program was nothing to write home about and the organizers should go back to the drawing board and do their home work very well.