Profile | Who is Sammy Leung? Hong Kong radio and TV host who’s ever present on airwaves and screen

If you listen to Hong Kong radio, chances are you will have heard Sammy Leung, aka Sum-mei, hosting – he has been on the airwaves since 1995

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Sammy Leung Chi-kin at an interview with the Post in 2011. Leung, or Sum-mei, has been a radio show host since 1995, and acted in films and TV drama series. Photo: SCMP

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Published: 12:15pm, 16 Aug 2024Updated: 3:17pm, 16 Aug 2024

This is the 31st instalment in a biweekly series profiling major Hong Kong pop culture figures of recent decades.

Sammy Leung Chi-kin, a radio show host for the past 29 years, has one of the most recognisable voices in Hong Kong. His face is well known, too, thanks to his regular hosting of television variety shows and occasional acting in films.

Leung grew up on a public housing estate in the New Territories, and obtained his schooling at the prestigious St Stephen’s College and La Salle College. In 1996 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong’s school of journalism and communication.

By then he had already hosted his first radio show, in 1995, as a result of his performance in a 1994 competition organised by Commercial Radio Hong Kong (CRHK)’s CR2 FM 90.3 channel.

Leung at an interview with the Post in 2001. From 2001 to 2009, he was host of the radio show Sammy Moving. Photo: SCMP

“During one of my early radio shows, someone phoned in to say that he liked my show and I realised that I could give people two hours of happiness, and that became my mission – to make people happy,” said Leung in a 2007 interview with the Post. “I want to make it a profession.”

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