NEWSTALK ZB 24-hour recording 27.12.04

A 24-hour recording of Newstalk ZB, 27 December 2004.
(This was the day after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami, and this event dominates the hourly news bulletins.) Blank spots for commercials throughout.

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12am - 6am Talkback with Barry Wilson, who also reads the news/weather.

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6am - News read by Alison Leonard, sports news with Matthew Alderson.
Programme hosted by Barry Holland - buy & sell till about 7.30am then NZ Sports Today (previews, fixtures & personalities, Sydney-Hobart & other yachting with Peter Montgomery) continues till 9am.

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9am - Wendyl Nissen till 12pm, beginning with householder lifestyle hour.
10am - Wendyl & Jeni Pearce, sports nutritionist. 11am - Travel Show.

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12pm - 6pm . News read by Alison Leonard, sport with Rickki Swannell
then Scoreboard with Peter Montgomery till 6pm. At 2pm, Bob Leahy takes over as newsreader.

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6pm - 12am Nostalgia with Jim Sutton. Music for the first two hours, then listeners phone in with memories, plus more memories and i/v with entertainer Eddie Low at about 11.15pm.
(News/sport read by Bruce Russell from 8pm).

[Singer Eddie Low also played the piano, guitar, flute, trumpet, violin, and other instruments. Born totally blind, he developed his musical ability at the Blind Institute in Auckland. In the early 1960s he played in showbands, and went on to record albums in the United States and Australia]