| 词条 | Merv Smith (broadcaster) |
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| name = Merv Smith | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSM|size=100}} | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Mervyn Charles Smith | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|03|11|df=y}} | birth_place = Piopio, New Zealand | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|09|24|1933|03|11|df=y}} | death_place = Auckland, New Zealand | occupation = Broadcaster | years_active = | known_for = 1ZB breakfast host }} Mervyn Charles Smith {{post-nominals|country=NZL|QSM}} (11 March 1933 – 24 September 2018) was a New Zealand radio broadcaster and railway aficionado. Early life and familySmith was born in Piopio on 11 March 1933, the son of George Adlow Smith and Adelaide Edith "Nuki" Smith (née Bunting).[1][2][3] Broadcasting careerDescribed as one of the pillars of New Zealand broadcasting,[4] Smith was breakfast show host on Auckland Radio New Zealand station 1ZB from 1961 until a format change in 1986. He held the country's top ratings for almost the entirety of his career.[4] Smith was also a regular voice artist, narrating nearly 200 books for the blind, and featuring on commercials on both radio and television.[4] Later life and deathAfter retirement, Smith pursued his lifelong passion of railways and railway modelling, opening a model and hobby shop in Auckland. Smith had previously written of his interest in model railways in his 1977 book Little Trains of Thought (Whitcoulls Publishers, Christchurch; co-written with Ches Livingstone), which detailed his creation of a model HOn30-scale layout based on a fictional New Zealand West Coast narrow-gauge line.[5] Smith was admitted to Auckland Hospital on 21 September 2018, and died there three days later.[4] Honours and awardsIn 1976, he received the Benny Award from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand, the highest honour for a New Zealand entertainer. In the 1985 Queen's Birthday Honours, Smith was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service.[6] References1. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/search/search?path=%2FqueryEntry.m%3Ftype%3Ddeaths |title=Death search: registration number 2018/26773 |website=Births, deaths & marriages online |publisher=Department of Internal Affairs |accessdate=4 October 2018}} 2. ^{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19330311.2.2 |title=Births |date=11 March 1933 |work=Auckland Star |page=1 |accessdate=4 October 2018}} 3. ^{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19330311.2.2 |title=In memoriam |date=8 June 1940 |work=Auckland Star |page=1 |accessdate=4 October 2018}} 4. ^1 2 3 "[https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12130944 Radio legend, former ZB breakfast host Merv Smith dies]", The New Zealand Herald. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 25 September 2018. 5. ^"[https://www.abebooks.com/first-edition/Little-Trains-Thought-Merv-Smith-Ches/6889215961/bd Little Trains of Thought]", abebooks.com. Retrieved 25 September 2018. 6. ^{{London Gazette |date=14 June 1985 |supp=y |issue=50155 |page=3}} External links
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