Antony "Tony" Ciprian (10 November 1932 – 13 January 2015) was a New Zealand broadcaster, best known as a television sports news presenter and producer.

Biography

Born in 1932, Ciprian spent 10 years as a police officer before joining the

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as a journalist at Gisborne radio station 2ZG. While mainly engaged in reporting for radio, he also filed the occasional report for television. In 1971 he took a six-month sabbatical from 2ZG to study radio and television news techniques in Australia. In the 1980s, Ciprian joined

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as a sports news reader and reporter on the evening news bulletin, and was part of the team that covered the

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in Edinburgh. In 1989 he moved to the newly established TV3 as that channel's first sports producer, and remained in that role for the next 20 years, apart from a couple of interruptions. He was a mentor to many younger reporters, including Kamahl Santamaria. In retirement he lived in Queensland, Australia, and died at

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in 2015.

References

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