Winners in the 8th Mobil Radio Awards announced 22 April 1987
T6101 - Tape 1 of 11 -
1. Paul Holmes - 2ZB Wellington
Winner, Best Talk Host, Interviewer or Newsreader, Duration: 10'12''
2. Nigel Corbett - 2XS Palmerston North
Winner, Best Radio Commercial - Radio Stations, "Talent Show Promo". Duration: 0'40''
3. Michael McElhinney (producer)
Winner, Best Entertainment - Commercial Stations, for "The Tonight Show" - RNZ Network, America's Cup Challenge broadcast from Perth presented by Paddy O'Donnell. Duration: 10'00'' [includes "New Zealand, join the crew" - "Pick it Up" an America's Cup jingle]
4. Chris Bullen - 1XX Whakatane
Winner, Best News Story, "The Tasman Dispute". Duration: 13'23''
T6102 - Tape 2 of 11 -
1. Phil Yule - Radio Hauraki
a) "Downtown Service Station", b) "Wireless Wolf" &, c) "Table Talk Chicken", the latter being the winner, Best Technical Production. Total duration 2'20" - 15ips
2) Leighton Smith - 1ZB, Auckland
Winner, David Inglis Memorial Award, Personality - Bus Dispute. Duration: 26'37" - 7 1/2ips
T6103 - Tape 3 of 11 -
1. Leighton Smith - 1ZB, Auckland
Winner, David Inglis Memorial Award, Personality - Mercy Dash. Duration: 14'46"
2. Peter Montgomery - RNZ Auckland
Winner, Best Sports Personality - America's Cup. (Contains some distortion). Duration: 14'09" (Contains distortion).
T6104 & T6105 - Tape 4 & 5 of 11 - (on CDR1260 and taken from the originals which were part of the New Zealand Composer's Collection)
Part 1 & Part 2 - David McCaw - RNZ Auckland
Winner, Best NZ Produced Musical - Serious - New Music Survey - December 1986 Edition. Available on Database ID: 16900 on CDR1260 which are, as we are aware, the original preservation media done during the NZ Composer's Collection. Duration: 52'40"
T6106, T6107 & T6108 - Tapes 5, 6 & 8 OF 11 - (preserved on to TCDR6106)
Part 1, Part 2 & Part 3 - Irene Strong - RNZ Head Office Rural
Winner, Best Factual Spoken Programme, Producer - Rural Report. With presenters, Peter Burke & Don Carson. Duration: 20'00" each. Note: These tapes represent the three examples of Rural Report entered into the Mobil Awards in 1987. Also available on database ID: 102053. Documents.
T6109 - Tape 9 of 11 -
1. Jenny Anderson - Radio Pacific
Winner, Best Factual Spoken Programme - Didn't You Kill My Brother. Duration: 15'50"
This is just part of the original 3 hour programme
T6110 - Tape 10 of 11 -
1) Bruce Duske - RNZ Auckland
Winner, Best Technical Production, Studio or OB - Baker on Broadway. Duration: 28'37"
T6111 - Tape 11 of 11 -
1. Brent Harman - 1ZB Auckland
Winner, Outstanding Community Contribution, Station Manager - Child Cancer Appeal. Duration: 8'50"
Producer/Director: John Chapman, Peter Everatt.
1ZB Radiothon 17 Aug 1986 Ellerslie Racecourse - excerpts of broadcast:
Interview with Child Cancer Foundation spokeswoman
Sensford [?] Road School makes a donation in memory of a late pupil Kerry Shackleton
Man talks movingly about his son dying from cancer