MikeHosking
- Presenter
Mike Hosking is one of Aotearoa's most polarising media figures. The longtime Newstalk ZB radio host began his television career in 1997, hosting Breakfast for six years. From 2014 he did another four as co-presenter of high profile five-nights-a-week TV show Seven Sharp, with Toni Street. The pair resigned in December 2017.
Screenography
Biography
Since leaving high school at 16, radio has been at the core of Mike Hosking's career. As a teen his first radio job was as an advertising copyrighter; his lucky break came when he was asked to help out on air for Wellington's Radio Windy.
"They fired people a lot. So I got stuck on air, did two mid-dawns and someone else got fired and then I did nights," he told The Listener in 2013.
Awards
2002 TV Guide New Zealand Television Awards
Nominated for Best Presenter: for Breakfast
“I’m allowed to say what I want, I’m allowed to think what I want, I’m allowed to express my opinion. Which is, apart from anything, fundamentally why I’m employed.”