{"id":445173,"date":"2026-05-26T00:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445173\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:50:10","slug":"popular-vancouver-radio-host-announces-departure-during-emotional-on-air-reveal-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445173\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular Vancouver radio host announces departure during emotional on-air reveal | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Vancouver\u2019s veteran radio hosts has announced they will soon depart from their long-running morning show on Move 103.5, but she and her co-hosting partner promise lots of fun before she is gone.<\/p>\n<p>After more than 20 years, Nat Hunter of The Nat &amp; Drew Show will be leaving in early June to move back to Ontario to be closer to family.<\/p>\n<p>In an emotional on-air segment on Monday, May 25, Hunter shared that it has been a \u201csuper hard decision\u201d that she has been considering for a while.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"radio\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2274826\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/radio-1024x683.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2274826\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nat &amp; Drew Show<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if you guys know this, but Canada is a very big country,\u201d said Hunter in a video posted to the radio station\u2019s social media accounts. \u201cI\u2019ve been going back and forth a lot lately. It is very hard to get back to family a lot. So it is the right time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do want to say that this has been a very hard, hard, hard choice, because even on my worst day here, this job has been one of the best parts of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter and her co-host Drew Savage first launched The Nat &amp; Drew Show on Z95.3 in the early 2000s before moving to QMFM in 2014. The station would rebrand to Move in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Before coming to Vancouver over 20 years ago, Hunter worked in several <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/news\/category\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">media<\/a> roles in Ontario, including being a VJ at Country Music Television and a weather anchor in Kingston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve got to know a lot of you guys too, like 22 plus years,\u201d Hunter said to the listeners. \u201cI know a lot of you guys by name, so thank you so much for choosing to wake up with us. It\u2019s just me going, this show remains, and this show will remain incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter\u2019s last day on-air with The Nat &amp; Drew Show is slated for Friday, June 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tagline for the show for the last couple of years has been, \u2018Real Friends, Real Fun,&#8217;\u201d said Savage to the listening audience. \u201cAnd we are real friends, and we are going to have some real fun over the course of the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got some stuff that we\u2019re lining up. You might hear some familiar voices return. The emphasis will be on fun, because that\u2019s why we gather here every day. And it means so much to us that you have felt like you\u2019re having fun too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show\u2019s third host, Erin Davis, told Hunter that she knew that this move was very important to her friend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last couple of weeks and months, as you prepared for this, you\u2019ve been home a little bit,\u201d said Davis. \u201cJust kind of checking in and getting things ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou told me once that you were taking your dad to a Doctor\u2019s appointment. And I was like, \u2018Holy wow.\u2019 I know you\u2019ve made a lot of sacrifices to be here in Vancouver, and your family\u2019s far away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of comments filled Move 103.5\u2019s social media posts about Hunter\u2019s impending departure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve followed all of you from the beginning,\u201d said one listener. \u201cMy radio station was wherever Nat &amp; Drew were. I\u2019ve laughed so much listening to you, and hearing your voices always brought a smile to my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterally yelled NO in the car this morning,\u201d shared another. \u201cYou\u2019ve made some boring drives better. You will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNat, you\u2019re an icon, and I\u2019m so happy to have met you,\u201d added a listener. \u201cCongrats on an incredible run with the Nat and Drew Show, and I\u2019m so happy you get to be close to family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"radio\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2274827\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/radio-1-1024x683.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2274827\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Nat &amp; Drew Show\/Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Hunter thanked all the listeners for their support as well as for tuning in over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love it here,\u201d she added. \u201cIt\u2019s funny, when you move from Toronto, which I moved like 22 plus years ago, people would say, \u2018What do you like better, Toronto or Vancouver?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just very different; they\u2019re apples and oranges. And, I love Toronto. I love my family there, and the whole bit. But B.C. holds such a special place in my heart. It\u2019s beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The veteran radio host also teased what\u2019s next for her in her career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have accepted another job. I\u2019ll be able to tell you more about it in a few days. But for right now, all I can say is that if you like, spices and mixes for dips at reasonable prices, I might know somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Vancouver\u2019s veteran radio hosts has announced they will soon depart from their long-running morning show on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-445173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}