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The Polly And Grant Show
Polly & Grant (previously known as The ZM Morning Crew and The Polly and Grant Show) was a radio breakfast show on New Zealand radio network More FM, and an internet-only radio station on Rova. The show was presented by Polly Gillespie and Grant Kereama. It was previously produced by Marc Peard, known as "New Hot Guy", and previously aired on ZM and The Hits. In 2007 the Morning Crew won the Best Metropolitan Music Breakfast Hosts award at the New Zealand Radio Awards. Show history Polly and Grant first teamed up together in the late eighties along with Nick Tansley presenting their show exclusively on ZMFM in Wellington; this was at a time when ZM in Wellington was live and local 24 hours a day and not networked to any other region. Polly and Grant initially started out working different shifts before moving together to the breakfast show. The show has always been a top rating show in the Wellington market and Polly and Grant have won awards at the New Zealand Radio Awards. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Adult Contemporary Music
Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of Radio broadcasting, radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s Vocal music, vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, Soul music, soul, rhythm and blues, R&B, quiet storm and Rock music, rock influence. Adult contemporary is generally a continuation of the easy listening and soft rock style that became popular in the 1960s and 1970s with some adjustments that reflect the evolution of Pop rock, pop/rock music. Adult contemporary tends to have lush, soothing and highly polished qualities where emphasis on melody and Harmony, harmonies is accentuated. It is usually melodic enough to get a listener's attention, and is inoffensive and pleasurable enough to work well as background music. Like most of pop music, its songs tend to be written in a basic format employing a Verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure. The format is heavy on romantic se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcus Lush
Marcus Lush (born July 1965) is a politician and television and radio presenter in New Zealand. Broadcasting He made his first footsteps into television in the 1990s as a reporter co-presenting TV2's ''Newsnight'' alongside Simon Dallow and Alison Mau, but it was a 2003 episode of travel show, ''Intrepid Journeys'', that set him on a new broadcasting path. Since then the longtime talkback radio host has won acclaim and awards for ''Off the Rails'', which chronicles his journey along New Zealand's railway lines, and he spent a month in Antarctica for the series, ''Ice''. In December 2008 Lush began work on a new television series, ''South'', in which he explores Southland and Otago. ''South'' went to air in August 2009. Lush was raised largely in Auckland, the fourth son of a printer and a speech therapist. He began his long career in talkback by presenting a show on student station Radio B (now 95bFM), where he worked alongside ''Eating Media Lunch'' co-creator Paul Casserly. At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Breeze (New Zealand)
The Breeze is a New Zealand radio station playing an adult contemporary music format owned by MediaWorks New Zealand, playing a variety of music from the 70s, 80s, 90s and also current hits. The Breeze network broadcasts in 21 markets throughout New Zealand, with each station presenting a mixture of local and network programming. The Breeze had ratings success becoming New Zealand's number one music station, a rise from fifth in 2016 and in 2021 reaching its highest ever audience over 671,000 listeners. The Breeze, as of survey results in October 2021, is New Zealand's number one music station for the tenth survey in a row. The Breeze launched a television channel called The Breeze TV in March 2020, which was acquired in December 2020 by Discovery, Inc. as part of its purchase of MediaWorks' television operations. Breeze TV became an online-only channel in March 2022. History Early years The Breeze first started in Auckland, Waikato and Wellington in 1993, when owner I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fifeshire FM
Fifeshire FM was a Nelson, New Zealand radio station owned by RadioWorks. The station broadcast on 93.0FM in Nelson, 92.0FM in Motueka and Tākaka, and 94.1FM in Murchison. Fifeshire FM first started as a summer station known as Radio Fifeshire operating for just four weeks during January 1983 and broadcasting on 855AM. A year later Radio Fifeshire returned this time broadcasting for 46 days during December 1983 and January 1984 on 990AM. News on the hour came from Radio Avon in Christchurch. For the next 4 summers Radio Fifeshire returned to the Nelson airwaves still broadcasting on 990AM. At midnight on Thursday 28 January 1988, Fifeshire 93FM became New Zealand's 8th private FM radio station to begin broadcasting when Fifeshire began broadcasting permanently on FM in the Nelson region - rewarding the efforts of Fifeshire founders Kevin Ihaia and Digby Lawley. The first song that was played - as with all the previous AM broadcasts - was the Rolling Stones' "Start Me Up". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Royal
Jason ( ; ) was an ancient Greek mythological hero and leader of the Argonauts, whose quest for the Golden Fleece featured in Greek literature. He was the son of Aeson, the rightful king of Iolcos. He was married to the sorceress Medea. He was also the great-grandson of the messenger god Hermes, through his mother's side. Jason appeared in various literary works in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem '' Argonautica'' and the tragedy '' Medea''. In the modern world, Jason has emerged as a character in various adaptations of his myths, such as the 1963 film '' Jason and the Argonauts'' and the 2000 TV miniseries of the same name. Persecution by Pelias Pelias (Aeson's half-brother) was power-hungry and sought to gain dominion over all of Thessaly. Pelias was the progeny of a union between their shared mother, Tyro ("high born Tyro"), the daughter of Salmoneus, and the sea god Poseidon. In a bitter feud, he overthrew Aeson (the rightf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Hits FM
The Hits is a Adult contemporary music#Hot adult contemporary, Hot adult contemporary music radio network, broadcasting to 26 markets across New Zealand. It was set up by New Zealand Government, Government broadcaster Radio New Zealand in 1993 by consolidating existing stations into a single brand and has been privately owned since 1996. The Hits has had the broadest broadcast reach of any radio network in the country since 1996, and is now available on 40 full-power FM frequencies and 18 iHeartRadio streams. Most of the individual stations started out as local AM stations owned by state broadcaster Radio New Zealand. Many have given a platform to broadcasting names like Selwyn Toogood, Paul Holmes (broadcaster), Paul Holmes, Peter Sinclair (broadcaster), Peter Sinclair, Jenny-May Clarkson (nee Coffin) and Jason Gunn. 4ZA#Programmes, John "Boggy" McDowell was an announcer on the Southland station for 33 years. Despite a major reduction in local programmes since 1993, most statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuckie Shearer
Chuckie may refer to: *Chuckie (name) *"Chuckie", a track on the 1991 album '' We Can't Be Stopped'' by Geto Boys *'' Chuckie Egg'', a 1983 home computer video game **'' Chuckie Egg 2'', its 1985 sequel See also *Chucky (other) *"Chuck E.'s In Love "Chuck E.'s in Love" is a song by American singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones. Released in 1979 on her eponymous debut album ''Rickie Lee Jones'', the song became her biggest hit, reaching number 4 on the ''Billboard'' U.S. Hot 100 list. "Chuck ...", 1979 Rickie Lee Jones song {{disambiguation, given name Lists of people by nickname Hypocorisms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Energy FM (Taranaki)
Energy FM was a privately owned radio station that broadcast from studios in New Plymouth, New Zealand. The station began life as a series of short term summer broadcasts during the mid-1980s until it secured a full-time license to broadcast on 93.2 MHz in late 1987. The station was set up by politician Steven Joyce Steven Leonard Joyce (born 7 April 1963) is a New Zealand former politician, who entered the New Zealand House of Representatives in 2008 as a member of the New Zealand National Party. In the same year he became Minister of Transport and Minis ... who sold it to form RadioWorks a few years later. Energy FM was re-branded as More FM Taranaki in December 2004 as part of an initiative by then owner MediaWorks to extend that network's brand. Short-term broadcasts Energy FM ran four short term broadcasts while attempting to secure a full-time FM warrant from the New Zealand Broadcasting Tribunal. At the time the station was also in competition from a number o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Smith
Katrina or Katrine may refer to: People * Katrina (given name) * Katrine (given name) Meteorology * List of storms named Katrina, a list of tropical cyclones designated as Katrina ** Hurricane Katrina, an exceptionally powerful Atlantic hurricane in 2005, and the costliest tropical cyclone in history Places * Katrine, Virginia, United States * Lake Katrine, New York, United States * Loch Katrine, a loch (lake) in Scotland Music and entertainment * Katrina and the Waves, a pop rock band of the 1980s * ''Katrina'' (1943 film), a Swedish film * ''Katrina'' (1969 film), a South African drama film * ''Katrina'' (novel), a 1936 Swedish novel by Sally Salminen * ''Katrina'' (talk show), a 1967 Australian television talk show hosted by Katrina Pye that aired on ATV-0 in Melbourne * ''Katrina'', a webcomic from Red Giant Entertainment * ''Katrine'', best-selling 1909 novel by Elinor Macartney Lane Other uses * Katrina Cottage, a type of kit house * Katrina cough, a respirat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Gifford
Philip Douglas Gifford (born 1947) is a New Zealand sportswriter and broadcaster. He has his own rugby radio show ''Front Row'' on Radio Sport from 8 to 10am on Saturdays. He writes a weekly column in the country's highest circulation weekend paper, ''The Sunday Star-Times'', and is a contributing editor to '' North & South'' magazine. He created the satirical rugby character Loosehead Len in 1973, and has seven books under that name. Gifford has written rugby best-sellers including his book on Alex Wyllie''Grizz, The Legend''(1991, ), which has sold 30,000 copies, making it the biggest-selling New Zealand sports book of the 1990s. He co-hosted a top rating breakfast show with Simon Barnett. Barnett and Gifford hosted the breakfast show on 91ZM Christchurch between 1992 and 1997 before being enticed to work on opposition station 92 More FM for a large sum of money. Gifford continued to co-host breakfast on More FM, Christchurch until 2003 when he moved to Radio Sport. 91ZM Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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