JimHickey
- Presenter
Jim Hickey spent more than two decades using his dextrous vocabulary to predict the likely path of sun, rain and wind. A longtime TV One fixture as weather forecaster on the primetime news, Hickey has also brought his distinctive presentation style to a host of other shows, including Country Calendar and A Flying Visit.
Screenography
Biography
Jim Hickey won extended fame as TVNZ’s senior weathercaster, after debuting on screen as an actor. After first handling weather duties on TV One’s primetime news bulletin in 1988, he went on to host for Country Calendar and A Flying Visit, plus a number of one-off documentaries.
Awards
2003 New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Presenter (People's Choice): for One News
1998 TV Guide Television Awards
Best Presenter
“We live in two small islands, uplifted high, right on the fringe of the roaring 40s, westerly wind belt and a wind tunnel in the middle called Cook Strait. And big mountains which create huge differential weather patterns between east and west. There's always something happening. ”