Beatson back with intelligent TV fare

Media Release: April 29 2009

Beatson back with intelligent TV fare

Television’s current affairs doyen David Beatson is returning to the screen to host a weekly interview show.

Fresh from serving up Auckland ratepayers some intelligent discussion on plans for a Super City, Beatson has accepted an offer from Stratos and Triangle Television to do a weekly interview with an Auckland newsmaker of the moment.

Jim Blackman, chief executive of Stratos and Triangle, says the former TVNZ interviewer and later Chairman of New Zealand on Air is still one of New Zealand’s best TV current affairs hosts.

“We saw that with the way that he handled ‘Super City Issues’, our hour-long studio discussion that features Nick Main of Deloitte and Committee for Auckland, the SRC’s Mike Lee, infrastructure council spokesman Stephen Selwood and Mayors Len Brown, Andrew Williams and Bob Harvey.

“The feedback has been tremendous both - for us having the courage to go where no other channel has really gone on the issue and for David’s handling of six people with strong opinions on the Super City plan.”

“The Beatson Interview” starts on May 6 with the first guest Auckland Central MP Nikki Kaye. Beatson checks she is faring at the coalface of government where she has found herself on committees for science and technology and local government and environment.

The series will screen on Wednesdays on Triangle at 7.30pm (UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52) and will be repeated on Stratos on Friday at 9pm (Sky Digital Channel 89, Freeview Channel 21 and TelstraClear cable).

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