Early Life and Career
Yu grew up at Mid-Levels on Hong Kong Island, with her parents, sister and brother. She attended St. Stephen's Girls' College, a Christian all-girls school (kindergarten through high school). She wrote and produced many controversial plays in the strict environment of the religious school.
Yu left secondary school in 1971, when she was only in Fifth Form. She joined Hong Kong Commercial Radio (CR) as a DJ and first hosted a breakfast radio programme titled Morning Friends (早晨老友記). She was subsequently given the role of Creative Director and then Programme Director of the newly formed youth radio channel CR2.
In 1982, Yu left Commercial Radio to form her own production company, Mes Amis Productions, and was involved in a range of media projects, including movie production.
She was invited to return to CR in 1988 as General Manager, a position she held until the 2000s, when she started to gradually step out of the station's administration. Yu resigned as CEO in 2003 and became the CEO of a joint venture company between Commercial Radio and Pacific Century Cyberworks, PCC Skyhorse.
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