 He hosted various sports programs such as local football and basketball games.After the 1977 City Council elections in which he ran dead last as a People's United Party candidate, Hyde complained in the Amandala that he had not wanted to enter the race anyway and believed he was being chiseled by the party's officials, elements in the party led by Minister C.L.B.Rogers, according to Hyde, conspired to take him off the air in 1978 at a football game in Orange Walk.