This fortnightly teenage pop show from NZBC began on regional Auckland television (AKTV2), and was New Zealand’s first TV music show.
Produced by Kevan Moore, each show featured a panel of young people giving their views on five new pop records (based on the British TV show Juke Box Jury) and introduced guest artists, including a young Kiri Te Kanawa, Ray Columbus, Alison Durbin and Howard Morrison.
James Waerea (who had performed in the vocal group The Silhouettes in the late 1950’s) co-hosted the programme alongside Stewart Macpherson and Clyde Scott, making broadcasting history as the first Māori presenter on a regular New Zealand television series.
Clyde Scott was unavailable for the 1963 series due to business commitments, so Colin Broadley (pictured with Ray Woolf) took over as compère.
Waerea went on to become one of the country’s first local talkback radio hosts and a celebrated satirical cartoonist for the New ZealandTruth newspaper in 1991.
Hosts
Stewart Macpherson
James Waerea
Colin Broadley
Clyde Scott
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James Waerea (who had performed in the vocal group The Silhouettes in the late 1950’s) co-hosted the programme alongside Stewart Macpherson and Clyde Scott, making broadcasting history as the first Māori presenter on a regular New Zealand television series.
