‘Top Town’ back
Television New Zealand’s top-rating summer fun-and-games programme, “Top Town" will be back on screen early next year with a new sponsor.
The Director-General of TVNZ, Julian Mounter, announced recently that agreement had been reached with Griffin’s, manufacturers of biscuits and sugar confectionery, giving them full on-air and off-air naming rights to the show. > Mr Mounter said the Griffin’s “Top Town” sponsorship was “an important and substantial one.”
“TVNZ is now more than 95 per cent funded from its commercial operations, and sponsor-
ship is an important part of the unique way New Zealand manages to fund high-quality public service television,” he said. World champion canoeist lan Ferguson and television personalities Mark Leishman and Barry Holland will once again present the show. Towns confirmed to host Griffin’s Top Town Games are Whakatane, Te Awamutu, New Plymouth, Levin, Picton, Queenstown, with the final in Timaru — winners for the past two years.
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