Bob Leahy is a New Zealand radio and television broadcaster.
He started broadcasting with pirate radio station
Radio Hauraki
Radio Hauraki is a New Zealand rock music station that started in 1966. It was the first private commercial radio station of the modern broadcasting era in New Zealand and operated illegally until 1970 to break the monopoly held by the state- ...
, on its first day of transmission, in 1966, in a pocket of international water, within New Zealand's
Hauraki Gulf
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, a news and talkback station affiliated with the modern Radio Hauraki. His voice can still be heard announcing the news, some 45 years later, on Radio Hauraki.
See also
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List of New Zealand television personalities
This is a list of New Zealand television personalities, including presenters and journalists. It includes those who left the profession, retired, or died.
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* Suzy Aiken – television personality and Prime News presenter
* Peter Arnett – t ...
References
Living people
New Zealand television presenters
New Zealand radio presenters
Year of birth missing (living people)
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