Where they Went
Radio i Newsroom
Running a magazine called Ad media about advertising
http://www.admedia.co.nz/
Derek Lowe
Sold out of Radio Pacific and made lots of money
Merv Smith
Mainly retired, running things to do with his hobby of
model trains, doing a quiz show on a new talk station
called Radio Live that grew out of radio pacific and
started last week. he is on the weekend only
http://www.radiolive.co.nz/
Mike Baker
Running his own station called the Flea from his
bedroom in Devonport on Aucklands North Shore - a low
powered station to the area only
See
http://www.devonportdirectory.co.nz/media.htm
Ross Goodwin
Voice over for one of the pay SKY TV channels in NZ
and still a programming consultant
Benny Levin
Died.
Brent Gracie
Good point
Thanks
Keith
Gerard
I spent a few months last year capturing the oral histories of about 3
dozen "senior" radio people who made a significant contribution during
their time in the media. They are now residing in Radio New Zealand
Sound Archives, Chch. http://www.soundarchives.co.nz/
A few quick coments about a few names on your list:
David Gapes - now edits the successful AdMedia magazine in auckland.
http://www.Admedia.co.nz
Derek Lowe - retired to his rural paradise out of Auckland. Still with
Jenny, who mum has not been well.
Merv Smith - partly-retired. Now back hosting an Early Bird show on
Radio Pacific, Sunday mornings. As witty as ever. And voices lots of
commercials.
Bren Lowe - deceased. Most of those in my interviews had great respect
for his innovations.
Dudley Scantlebury - has been involved with RBG (includes Radio Rhema,
Life FM, Southern Star, shine TV, etc.) May now be with UCB.
http://www.ucb.co.uk/
Hope this helps.
Gerard
camel
16.04.2005
By AMANDA LEGGE CHRISTCHURCH STAR
Murray Inglis was turned down by the New Zealand Broadcasting
Corporation 26 times in his bid to become a radio announcer - but
went on to be one of Christchurch's most-loved disc jockeys.
Inglis, better known as "Muzza in the morning - the mouth of the
south", dominated the airwaves of the Garden City during the
seventies on his breakfast show for Radio Avon.
However, last June the extroverted 51-year-old decided it was time to
take some time out from his radio career and can now be found working
in the city's TelstraClear call centre.
"I really like the people I work with.
They are really nice and there are no egos," he said.
He believes working with "real people" outside of the radio
industry has helped ground him again to his roots as a boy from a
normal working middle-class family.
Inglis' radio career began when he finally landed a spot with a
station in Palmerston North after endless rejections from the then
broadcasting corporation, which later became The Radio Network.
It lasted only six months before he was fired for being too different
to the other radio announcers of the day. "I was a rock and roll boy.
I liked the Stones and the Beatles."
He ended up going to Australia where he worked in the industry until
1973. It was then he returned to start as a DJ on the newly established
Radio Avon.
The highlight of his career was being named the South Pacific radio
personality of the year and one of eight grand finalists for a top
world DJ award in the mid-seventies.
The win prompted him to send a telegram to the person who had sacked
him in Palmerston North saying, "thanks for my big break in radio".
"He never replied," Inglis said.
In 1980 he left Christchurch to work in Australia and the North Island,
but returned in 1984 and stayed for another six years. The next decade
took him over to England where he continued to work in radio.
It was a phone call telling him his younger brother was sick with
cancer that brought him back to New Zealand.
The self-proclaimed performer hasn't ruled out a return to radio.
"I'll go back to radio eventually. I would like to go back into
talk radio, probably not music. I don't want to be one of those
ageing DJs trying to hold on to what was," he said.
In the meantime he is happy to be back in Christchurch among good
friends who have looked after him since the death of his brother in
2002 and the loss of his mother to a stroke four weeks later. His
father and older brother died in the early 1990s.
"All my immediate family are gone now," Inglis said.
He lives near the Botanic Gardens, tries to get to the movies at least
once a week and has an interest in rugby - but a greater passion for
rugby league.
He still does voice-overs, commercials and compering, and in the future
he hopes to write an autobiography about his time in radio.
keith
There's Richard Mercer at Mix 106.5 Sydney
John Harvey at Geraldton WA
keith
> We have started a google newsgroup at
>
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/NZNew-ZealandkiwiRadiobroadcasting
Like the music industry, there are many Kiwi's that have worked in
Australia.
>From the top of my head (unless they were Aussies that worked in NZ!)
These guys are all ex-Hauraki (when located at Caltex House)
Fred Botica (Has dominated Perth Breakfast for about 40 survey
periods)
Alan Baskin (News-Sen 1323)
Pat Cortenay (Last popped up in Darwin, could be from Ireland
originally?)
Ted Seymour (Managed Brisbane's FM104 during halycon start up period)
Richard Monk from WSFM worked at Hauraki too but he's an Aussie.
>From early ZB days... Alan Wyatt (Managed 4RR and 8HA circa early
90's)
Also there's a producer at RG's GC from Rotorua but can't remember his
name.
I worked with Delwyn Atkinson at Star 106.9 in Ipswich not long after
she arrived over from New Zealand - sadly she passed on; a sad day
that one:(
When 89FM was first broadcasting from the Aetna Building in Symonds
Street Auckland circa 1981 there were quite a few Aussies
broadcasting, and they really stood out with their accents.
I thought Richard Fowler was among them- are you sure he's from New
Zealand?
Interestingly... I wonder how any Aussies have worked in NZ?
If you dig further, you'll find many more.
I also hail from NZ, working for Australasian Retail Radio Network.
The bonus side to that is I get to travel to NZ about every 3 months.
I have the unique pleasure of creating content for our separate New
Zealand in store radio service in addition to Australia...
I just have to remember which country the advert is for when I say
'six',
lol...
No plans to sell the concept to fish and chip shops at this stage
though.
To conclude this post I suppose we should also claim Derryn Hinch :)
Camel