Cool to see an investment in developing more programming, and a female duo given the gig.
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Polly Gill-- erm, Shelley Venning new Breeze Wellington co-host, āVenning has previously worked for Radio New Zealand and Wellingtonās Classic Hits in the early 2000sā
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ZMās Chart has been renamed to āZM Late Showā, and Cam Mansel still remains as host. The program time has changed to 7pm-10pm.
The new show, āZMās Late Late Showā is hosted by Meg Wyatt and Ella Sheppard. Itāll run to 10pm-Midnight weeknights.
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7pm seems too early to be calling it a Late Show, but ZM Chart wasnāt a great name either.
@nztv I have more information about Shelley Venning (from RNZās website), who comes to The Breeze (MediaWorks Radio) from RNZ.
Shelley Venning studied Broadcasting Journalism at Christchurch Polytechnic where she discovered although she liked writing news, she loved reading it. She hosted the all-night programme for RNZ back in the early '90s so when filling in for Vicki McKay or Lloyd Scott it feels like sheās getting back to her roots.
Shelley never went on a big OE but she certainly had an āNEā working in Gisborne, Taumaranui, Christchurch, Wellington, Auckland and Nelson. She loves working for RNZ National as she gets to broadcast in all these great places again.
Between her stints at RNZ, Shelley worked as a breakfast presenter at Classic Hits, got a BA in Psychology, a Graduate Diploma in English, ran four marathons and had two children. Fortunately Shelley loves food as much as reading the news because feeding two growing boys is pretty much a full-time job. When sheās not at work Shelley is likely trying out a new recipe, filling up the fruit bowl, slathering peanut butter on toast or taxiing the kids to soccer, rugby and cricket. Shelley loves coming to work as she gets to immerse herself in the news she doesnāt often have time to hear while at home.
As mentioned by Monique McKenzie of StopPress, Shelley will replace Kath Bier - who is leaving to become a Church leader and finishes up this week (7 May) - as co-host of The Breezeās Wellington breakfast with Steve Joll, commencing next week (10 May).
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Considering Phil and his wife moved to Chch for the role 2 years is not long eh
Si and Gary back together would be my guessā¦
Have to say Leah and Danny on Magic are starting to grow on me.
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No, not very long at all.
I wonder if they would reach out to him. Good progression for Gary and probably a more recognizable pairing nationally than what Si & Phil were.
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i have a book written by Phil gifford its his autobiography good chapter in it that talks about his radio days starting on radio i in the early 80s then of course his days on hauraki with kevin black and john hawkesby then of course his long partnership with simon on 3zm then more fm was written approx 2014
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No, true but Phil essentially did come out of retirement to do the show and Iām guessing he agreed to two years and no more.
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Looks like Thane Kirby is out of Haurakiā¦ Show changes on their website this morning
Angelina Grey has just returned from maternity leave and is hosting afternoons on Hauraki (1-4pm). Greg Prebble has replaced Thane Kirby as its drive host (4-7pm)ā¦ for the moment.
James Daniels new ZB host with Simon Barnett
āLast year I was asked to host nine to noon in Canterbury on Coast 105.7FMā said Daniels. āItās been busy juggling those rolesā¦"
James Daniels will continue to host Canterbury Mornings on Coast then go nationwide with Simon Barnett on Newstalk ZB Afternoons.
Thatās a lot of juggling!
so i guess he wont be on council according to the press release
Yep.
Iām hearing rumours of a MediaWorks rebrand - new corporate logo. Relaunching start of June.
Strange timing since they have just installed this on the new buildingā¦ sure itās not a talkback rebrand?
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Certain. Hearing itās a simplified logo that incorporates the QMS brand, which will no longer exist in New Zealand from June as it will become MediaWorks OOH. I donāt know about the talkback rebrand - there could be one too?
Huge cost to rebrand a company, especially if itās just the corporate side of the business. But it seems to be the thing that new CEOs like to do, to leave their own mark (Mark Weldon certainly did haha).
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Not sure what the point was adding him to the station, from when I listened he almost came across as disinterested in being there. Just my opinion though.
Would have been good to have Angelina Grey return on drive with a music focused show. But good to see Tracey Donaldson remaining.