RodneyBryant
- Presenter
Rodney Bryant was one of the stars of the heyday of regional television news. In the early 1970s he became a Canterbury institution fronting The South Tonight with Bryan Allpress, and returned to host The Mainland Touch in the early 80s. He moved on to TV talkback, then children’s current affairs with The Video Dispatch, before leaving TV for a 21 year run in communications for the Dunedin City Council.
Screenography
Biography
A devoted adopted son of the South Island, Rodney Bryant was born in the English town of Pangbourne on the River Thames (where Kenneth Grahame wrote The Wind in the Willows). In 1957 his family moved dowunder, because "father had his bike pinched five times in a year. He heard that they didn’t pinch bikes in New Zealand".
“I believe that about the regional programmes: what we’re doing is dealing with people … their problems as they affect them here. I live here. What happens here affects me. A lot of the strength of regional programmes is in that.”