ChristopherBourn
- Director
- Producer
From the mid 1960s into the 1980s, Christopher Bourn’s name was synonymous with entertainment on New Zealand television. But the man behind talent shows Studio One and New Faces also played a role in groundbreaking sports broadcasts, including the first All Black test screened on television. Bourn held senior management roles in both the old NZ Broadcasting Corporation and TVNZ.
Screenography
Biography
Raised in Napier, Christopher Bourn began his working life as a teacher; he spent seven years in classrooms in Hastings and Taranaki. But in 1964 he moved to Wellington, and embarked on a long television career that would see him working on a run of music and entertainment shows.
Awards
1970 NZ Recording Industry
Gold Disc for services to the recording industry
1988 NZ Entertainment Operators Association
Merit Award for services to entertainment
“One of the lovely things about my career is I never had a boring day in my life. I was just so lucky in being a pioneer . . . We weren’t trained, we learned . . . we were given a chance to experiment, we were given a chance to try things out.”