Weekends and Holidays
Weekend and public holiday programming on Newstalk ZB is based around lifestyle features, sports coverage and music.
The All Sports breakfast from 6:00 am till 9:00 am on Saturdays encompasses a Garage Sale segment for the first half hour, and then features on Local sport, sports panels, and interviews with Athletes and sports journalists. The All Sports Breakfast has local versions in many regions, the Auckland version with Nigel Yalden is simulcast in regions that do not have a local version. Christchurch's version is hosted by Leslie Murdoch & Craig Kerr, and the Dunedin version is hoted by Steve Davie.
From 6:00 am till 7:00 am on Sundays, a 'best of' show is played, with highlights of the Mike Hosking breakfast between 6:00 am and 6:30 am, and Highlights of the Leighton Smith show, or Local morning shows in Wellington and Christchurch, between 6:30 am and 7:00 am done by morning hosts during the week.
Between 7:00 am and 8:00 am on Sundays, Ruud Kleinpaste, presents an hour-long gardening talkback programme called Ruud's Awakening.
Between 8:00 am and 9:00 am on Sundays, Tony Veitch hosts The Sports Power Hour, which has his and others' commentary on the weekend sport so far.
Saturday and Sunday mornings are dominated by discussions on hobbies and personal life. Paul Holmes presents the Saturday Morning Programme between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm throughout New Zealand, except Wellington which broadcasts 'Wellington on Saturday' sometimes known as 'The Great Weekender', The show had previously been hosted by Garry Ward for 26 years. The history of this show dates back to 1983 on Wellington's 2ZB and all this time had been hosted by Garry Ward, Ward died suddenly on 17 September 2009. His replacement was later announced as former Weekday Morning host in Wellington Justin du Fresne. Andrew Dickens presents a similar programme called Andrew Dickens' Sunday Café, at the same time on Sunday morning, all shows featuring interviews and sponsored regular guests segments.
Tony Vietch presents Vietchy on Saturday, a combination of live sports updates and commentary and sports-related talkback. The programme, which is usually simulcast on Radio Sport, includes interviews with major New Zealand sports people. Wellington breaks out for a local Scoreboard show hosted by Daniel McHardy, focussing on local sports issues like the Wellington Phoenix and local club sport updates. For over 40 years, Christchurch also broadcast a Scoreboard show for its region, hosted by Malcolm Ellis for over 15 years, however the Christchurch show was discontinued at the end of 2009 due to cost-cutting by The Radio Network and now takes Vietch's show with local breakouts three times an hour. Murray Deaker presents a show for the network on Sunday afternoons with a similar format to Saturday Scoreboard, called Deaker on Sunday
On Saturday evenings, a Nostalgia programme, hosted by Jim Sutton showcasing music from yesteryear, is aired from 6pm until midnight.
During Sunday evenings, Jim Sutton again hosts a Nostalgia programme, in a condensed two hour format, playing write-in request music. At 8 pm, "real Life" is hosted by John Cowan interviewing well known/successful people about their lives. and From 9pm Tim Roxborough & Pam Corkery host 'The Two' in a talkback format. On Holiday evenings, either a Nostalgia programme or extended talkback programme is aired.
During the Christmas and New Year holiday season, the schedule changes, with a single nationwide breakfast show running from 6 am until 9 am, usually hosted by newsreader and fill-in host Tim Dower or normal drive show presenter Larry Williams, followed by a morning shift from 9am until 1pm and an afternoon shift until 6pm, hosted by overnight presenter Bruce Russell. This is followed by a 6 hour evening shift until midnight. The mornings, afternoon and evening shifts during this time are devoted almost entirely to talkback.
On standalone public Holidays Such as ANZAC day, Queen's Birthday or Labour day a format similar to a normal weekend day is broadcast, with The All Sports Breakfast, a personal life/hobbies show usually hosted by Wendyl Nissen, either afternoon talkback or Scoreboard and Nostalgia with Jim Sutton in the evening.
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