The long awaited ground-breaking morning programme featuring broadcaster Paul Henry has announced it will launch on Easter Tuesday, April 7.
Paul Henry will integrate MediaWorks' leading capabilities in radio, TV and digital, creating a unique product and a major shift in the delivery of news and entertainment in the New Zealand market. The programme will screen on RadioLIVE, TV3 and paulhenry.co.nz
Henry made the launch date announcement in an online video.
"I've got a date. A date where life will change forever in New Zealand. It's Paul Henry, from 6am to 9am, five days a week, from April 7. Go!," he said today.
"This show will change the face of mornings. It will be focused on news and entertainment. I won't be compromising any of that for the platforms. This will be a conversation you can join at the beginning, or whenever you feel you want to, right through to 9 o'clock. You never have to leave it, because we’ll be there on any platform that works for you. Plus, I'm on it, and I will be myself, I'll just be being me... fantastic," said Henry.
Joining the programme as sports presenter will be Jim Kayes, who will be part of a line up that includes Hilary Barry as the show's newsreader and Perlina Lau as social media presenter.
Kayes is an experienced sports journalist who has covered nearly 200 All Blacks tests and covered four Rugby World Cups.
"Jim, at heart, is a news man. He just happens to be covering rugby for us at the moment," said MediaWorks Group Head of News, Mark Jennings.
"People tuning into the show will soon find he has a wide general knowledge and an opinion on most things."
Kayes joined TV3 in April 2009 and was awarded reporter of the year at the TP McLean sports journalism awards in 2011, for his coverage the Rugby World Cup.
Talking to RadioLIVE's Duncan Garner this afternoon, Henry said the programme was going to be very exciting, in the terms of it being new.
"I'm loathed to say very exciting, because people always say 'Oh, it's very exciting' and everything like that. Um, the thing is it's new and that is the thing that's exciting, it actually is new, it's not a television programme, it's not a radio programme, this is a totally new format which will be available across all platforms and it actually is quite exciting," said Henry.
Then the two broadcasters discussed the spacesuit Henry is seen wearing in promotions for his new programme.
"Who's idea was the spacesuit?," exclaimed Henry. "I look at those hoardings and I think when people see this programme 'what will they think?' I know, I 'spose, obviously, firstly, where's the bloody spacesuit? But, oh no, it's crazy."
And then he told Garner and listeners the lengths MediaWorks went to obtain the spacesuit.
The network had paid 'a fortune' to hire the suit from Universal Studios in the United States. 'Tens of thousands of dollars' according to Henry, to secure the suit on a three month lease.
"I don't know if it was in Gravity, or Interstellar, or whatever but this is a real theatrical spacesuit. This isn't your fancy dress party spacesuit. This is the full quid."
"I sweat buckets in photo shoots with that spacesuit," said Henry.
Source: Press Release - MediaWorks and 3 News
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