TomBradley
- Newsreader
Tom Bradley is the proverbial man of many skills. Best known for his 25 year stint as a television newsreader (including on Feltex award-winner News at Ten), Bradley has also done time as a pirate radio DJ, media coach and singer. His writing work includes dozens of scripts for animated series Buzz and Poppy, and more than 20 books for children and young adults.
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Biography
Before he became one of New Zealand's best known newsreaders, Tom Bradley was a teenager starting off in radio. Born in Wellington, and educated at Mana College, he joined Palmerston North station 2ZA as a radio announcer at age 19. “That was really young for an announcer in the mid 60s," says Bradley. "But I was tall, looked older, and had a mature voice for my age.”
“Suddenly there was a new kid on the block. We were new, we were aggressive ... we came in and said ‘let’s go out there and do the stories they’re doing, let’s do them better, let’s do them faster, let’s do them in a brighter way’. Suddenly there was competition.”
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