Presenters chosen
Cathy Strong and Bob Parker have been chosen as hosts of the “This is New Zealand” programme being made now for showing on the American cable television network, SPN. Starting on September 6, “This is New Zealand” will go coast-to-coast weekly at 8 p.m. Eastern Standard Time with one hour of a high-quality magazine of totally New Zealand content, says Energy Source Television, Ltd, which is producing the programme. It is being produced completely in New Zealand and the two front people have the role of linking the programme items and “developing a strong, distinctively open and friendly New Zealand style” atmosphere. The programme will go into just over 5.5 million homes. Cathy Strong, now living in New Zealand, grew up in Rremerton, United States.
She is a news sub-editor for Radio New Zealand. ’ Bob Parker, who was born in Christchurch, is well known to New Zealanders as a television presenter, the host of “Supersale” and a Telethon frontman. “This is New Zealand” has been booked for 52 weeks and Energy Source plans to extend that booking. Energy Source is a small, unlisted public company which produced the religious “Day One” series. A further series of this will be produced.
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