Three to Broadcast the 9th Floor

FRIDAY, 05 MAY 2017

Three to Broadcast the 9th Floor

MediaWorks is pleased to announce it will be broadcasting Radio New Zealand’s (RNZ) The 9th Floor from October 2017. The landmark series sees presenter Guyon Espiner talk at length with five of New Zealand’s six former Prime Ministers about political events and decisions that have shaped the country over the past thirty years.

MediaWorks Head of Broadcast News, Richard Sutherland said, “We are pleased to provide a platform to share this series of historical journalism with our audience. In an evolving political environment we know this series will be a popular one and realise the importance of New Zealander’s learning about the history of our country.”

RNZ’s Tim Watkin, executive producer podcasts and series, says, “Our whole plan is to make smart journalism available to as many people as possible so it’s great Three is going broadcast the series free-to-air and ad-free on Sunday mornings from October.

This is another first for The 9th Floor. Already the series is the first to be shared free and in its entirety across all major New Zealand media. It’s the first New Zealand podcast to reach #1 on iTunes. Now it’s the first RNZ series to be broadcast on mainstream TV. So we’re stoked. It shows there’s an audience for long-form current affairs, rather than just another snackable cat video.

These interviews talk about the issues and controversies, drama and decisions that shaped modern New Zealand and so hopefully will help viewers understand how we’ve become the country that we are.”

The interviews will be broadcast in chronological order starting with Sir Geoffrey Palmer (1890-1990), Mike Moore (1990), Jim Bolger (1990-1997), Dame Jenny Shipley (1997-1999) and Helen Clark (1999-2008). The series will be broadcast from October 2017 on Three.

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