Owner | MediaWorks New Zealand |
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Country | New Zealand |
Introduced | January 2014 |
Discontinued | December 2016 |
Guy, Sharyn & Clint was a MediaWorks New Zealand brand, composed of personalities Guy Williams, Sharyn Casey and Clint Roberts. The trio hosted The Edge drive show The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint, Saturday show The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint, and Four television programme The Xtra Factor, a follow-up programme of the second New Zealand series of The X Factor . The brand was discontinued at the end of 2016, when Guy Williams and Clint Roberts left The Edge. Their former drive slot was filled by The Edge Afternoons with Jono, Ben & Sharyn.
Guy Williams is a New Zealand comedian and radio and television personality. His only previous work at The Edge was in December 2013, when he co-hosted the breakfast show with Sharyn Casey (and later, Clint Roberts) to fill in for Jay-Jay, Mike & Dom. He also co-hosts Three satirical show Jono and Ben and narrated Come Dine with Me New Zealand . [1]
Sharyn Casey is a radio and television personality. After working in retail since dropping out of high school the age of 15, she started working in radio in 2004. [2] She has worked for The Edge since 2006, when she won the "Quit Your Day Job" promotion. [3] Previously, she has co-hosted other radio shows on The Edge, as well as television shows Four Live on Four, the New Zealand version of Dancing with the Stars on Three, [4] and The Music Lab on The Edge TV.
Clint Roberts | |
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Born | Clinton Paul Roberts 1 February 1987 Rotorua, New Zealand |
Spouse | Lucy Slight |
Children | 2 |
Career | |
Show | Bree & Clint |
Station | ZM |
Network | New Zealand Media and Entertainment |
Country | New Zealand |
Clinton Paul "Clint" Roberts (born 1 February 1987 in Rotorua, New Zealand) [5] is a New Zealand radio host. He currently cohosts ZM's drive show, Bree & Clint , with Bree Tomasel. He worked at The Edge from 2006 through 2016, and at George FM from 2017 through March 2018.
Roberts grew up in Rotorua. He attended the New Zealand Broadcasting School in Christchurch, [6] but dropped out before completing his degree to take a job at The Edge.
Roberts started working at The Edge in 2006. His roles have included cohosting shows and being the assistant programme director. [6] After filling in on the breakfast show at the end of 2013 with Guy Williams and Sharyn Casey, they started hosting The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint and The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint from 2014. In 2015, he hosted Hot Right Now on The Edge TV and cohosted The Xtra Factor with Williams and Casey. He began cohosting the breakfast show on George FM in 2017 with Kara Rickard and Pax Assadi; he then cohosted with Rickard and Tammy Davis, until he left in March 2018. [7] [8] In July 2018, he began cohosting Bree & Clint with Bree Tomasel. [9]
He has been MC for, among others, music festivals The Future Music Festival and Rhythm & Vines. [3]
Roberts married magazine editor Lucy Slight in March 2018. [10] They have two daughters, Tui Grace Aroha Roberts, born on 11 July 2019, [11] and Maggie, born 27 March 2021. They also have two British Shorthair cats, Ziggy and Bowie (after singer David Bowie).
Genre | Comedy |
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Running time | 4 hours |
Language(s) | English |
Home station | The Edge |
Hosted by | Guy Williams Sharyn Casey Clint Roberts |
Produced by |
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Website | www |
Podcast |
The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint was broadcast on The Edge from 3 pm through 7 pm on weekdays. Debuting on 20 January 2014, [12] it was formed after the hosts of The Edge's previous afternoon show, Carl Fletcher and Vaughan Smith, quit to work at rival station ZM's breakfast show Fletch, Vaughan & Megan. [13] [14] The last show was broadcast on 23 December 2016. It was replaced in 2017 by The Edge Afternoons with Jono, Ben & Sharyn, hosted by Sharyn Casey and Jono and Ben's Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce.
Chang Hung produced the show from its inception [15] until March 2016, when he was replaced by Oscar Jackson. Jackson continued to produce the show until its ending in December 2016. Hourly news headlines were read live by Megan Mansell, host of The Edge Workday of Awesome and Takeaways, from the show's inception until March 2016, when she was replaced by pre-recorded headlines read by Newshub's Glen.
The radio show was rated the top radio drive show in New Zealand by a 2014 market survey [16] and received approximately 227,300 listeners every week as of 2014. [17] It was The Edge's most successful drive show. [18]
As well as being broadcast on The Edge's FM frequencies throughout New Zealand, the show was streamed live via the internet on The Edge's website and its Android and iOS apps. The show, without the music, news or advertisements, is published as a podcast. [19]
Running time | 3 hours |
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Language(s) | English |
Home station | The Edge |
Hosted by | Guy Williams Sharyn Casey Clint Roberts |
Website | www |
The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint was broadcast on The Edge from 2 pm through 5 pm on Saturdays. It featured a countdown of the 40 biggest songs, as calculated by a mixture of online music rating website musiclab.net.nz and votes for that week's Smash! 20 .
Unlike their weekday show, The Edge Fat 40 is not available as a podcast, as voice breaks were mostly filled with discussion about just played or upcoming songs, or current promotions.
The Rock is a New Zealand mainstream rock music radio station. The station targets 25–44 with a male skew, but has a significant female fan base. It plays rock music and showcases up-and-coming New Zealand bands.
ZM is a New Zealand contemporary hit radio network owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment. It broadcasts 19 markets throughout mainland New Zealand via terrestrial FM, and worldwide via the Internet. The network targets the 15–39 demographic specialises in a chart-music playlist of pop, rock, hip hop and dance music. It reaches approximately 486,800 listeners weekly, making it the fifth largest commercial radio station in New Zealand.
Coast is a New Zealand radio network playing a mix of "feel good" hits predominantly from the 1970s and 1980s. The network includes stations in 21 major cities and provincial centres broadcasting from studios in central Auckland, owned and operated by New Zealand Media and Entertainment (NZME).
The Edge is a youth-oriented New Zealand entertainment brand consisting of a national radio network and an entertainment website. It is owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand. It previously had a TV channel, The Edge TV.
The Hits is a Hot adult contemporary music radio network, broadcasting to 26 markets across New Zealand. It was set up by Government broadcaster Radio New Zealand in 1993 by consolidating existing stations into a single brand and has been privately owned since 1996. The Hits has had the broadest broadcast reach of any radio network in the country since 1996, and is now available on 40 full-power FM frequencies and 18 iHeartRadio streams.
Iain Phillip Stables is a New Zealand TV and Radio personality. In the past Stables worked on various radio stations across New Zealand beginning his radio career on Radio Windy in Wellington at the age of 14. As well as radio, Stables has appeared in several television roles including being the 'bad boy' judge on NZ Idol Series 3 in 2006.
Jason Reeves is a radio broadcaster and television presenter from New Zealand. He currently co-hosts the drive home show on The Rock FM. He has previously worked for other stations such as Auckland's Classic Hits 97.4, The Edge and for ZM.
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The X Factor was a New Zealand television reality music competition, originating from the original UK series and based on the Australian The X Factor production format. The show began in 2013 and was open to anyone aged 14 and over. The winner was signed to Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand.
Jonathan Richard Pryor is a New Zealand radio and television personality best known as the cohost of Jono and Ben. Pryor worked for The Rock radio station for over 15 years, before moving to The Edge in 2017 to cohost The Edge Afternoons with Jono, Ben & Sharyn with Ben Boyce and Sharyn Casey. Pryor starred in Amped and The Jono Project on C4, before he began co-hosting Jono and Ben at Ten on Three alongside Boyce in 2012. In 2015, the show moved to prime time at 7:30pm, re-branded as Jono and Ben. The show was cancelled at the end of 2018. Pryor and Boyce now host the breakfast show on The Hits, and soon a TV show on TVNZ.
Jono and Ben, previously titled Jono and Ben at Ten, was a satirical news and entertainment show hosted by Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce in New Zealand. The show aired on Three on Thursday nights at 7:30pm, and was filmed the night before in their studios in Epsom. The show combined pre-filmed comedy sketches, pranks and parodies, linked together by segments filmed in front of a small studio audience. A third presenter, Guy Williams sat in a chair to the right of the stage and provided comic foil for the hosts. In 2015 the show moved from 10pm to 7:30pm and was extended to run for an hour; due to the timeslot change, the show was renamed Jono and Ben.
Guy Malachi Jones Williams is a New Zealand comedian and television personality. Williams was a co-host on satirical news and entertainment television programme Jono and Ben, until the show's end in 2018. In 2019, he began hosting New Zealand Today, a show detailing the lives and events of New Zealand towns and the people who live in them.
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The Edge TV was a New Zealand online streaming channel that was officially launched as a television channel on 27 June 2014 as an extension of The Edge radio brand, which is owned by MediaWorks New Zealand. In September 2020, MediaWorks sold The Edge TV along with its entire television arm to the United States multinational mass media company Discovery, Inc., with the acquisition being finalised in December 2020. MediaWorks still produces the content which is broadcast on frequencies owned by Discovery Inc. On 21 March 2022, The Edge TV returned to being an online-only streaming channel, alongside sister channel Breeze TV. Both The Edge TV and Breeze TV were closed in December 2022.
Sharyn Mary-Ellen Casey is a radio host on The Edge's drive show, The Edge Afternoons with Sharyn, Steph & Nickson, a host on the New Zealand version of Dancing with the Stars, and a celebrity panelist on The Masked Singer NZ. She was previously one of Guy, Sharyn & Clint.
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The 2021 New Zealand Radio Awards are the awards for excellence in the New Zealand radio industry during 2020. It was the 44th New Zealand Radio Awards, recognising staff, volunteers and contractors in both commercial and non-commercial broadcasting.
The 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards are the awards for excellence in the New Zealand radio industry during 2021. It was the 45th New Zealand Radio Awards, recognising staff, volunteers and contractors in both commercial and non-commercial broadcasting.
The 2023 New Zealand Radio Awards are the awards for excellence in the New Zealand radio industry during 2022. It was the 46th New Zealand Radio Awards, recognising staff, volunteers and contractors in both commercial and non-commercial broadcasting.
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