Newsreader line-up to change

Press, 20 February 1988, Page 20

Newsreader line-up to change

NZPA Auckland The newsreader who filled in for Neil Billington on Television One’s Network News last year when the latter did not appear for three days after a rather severe haircut, has now got Billington’s job. Richard Long, a longserving news and sports reporter and occasional newsreader, will team with Judy Bailey when the 6.30 Network News resumes its full operation a week next Monday.

Another major change announced last night by Mr Paul Norris, TVNZ’s head of news and current affairs, is the replacement of Robin Kora as newscaster for “Eyewit-

ness” by long-serving newsreaders Tom Bradley and Angela D’Aud,ney, who will alternate l in the role as well as present week-end newscasts.

Kora, who came to “Eyewitness” from “Koha,” will take over the Midday News bulletin.

Billington, who used to front “Foreign Correspondent” before Judy Bailey, and who replaced Philip Sherry and Tom Bradley on the 6.30 News late in 1986, is known to have expressed a wish to do more current affairs work. He is moving to “Eyewitness” to undertake in-depth reporting and some presenting. Lately Billington has

worked on the Radio New Zealand current affairs programme “Checkpoint.” Lindsay Perigo, who fronted “Eyewitness” last year, will present the new Sunday-night current affairs programme “Frontline,” which starts on Television One on March 6.

Perigo will continue to , present some editions of “Eyewitness,” with the programme’s political and economic correspondent Rob Neale stepping up to do most of the presenting.

Karen Sims will continue to present “Eyewitness” but will also present some “World Watch” segments in “Eyewitness.”