“Leighton Smith (radio host)”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Smith started his broadcasting career on Sydney's SCH as a "junior disco jockey". He moved to New Zealand for a one-year stint with 2ZB in Wellington in 1980, but stayed for five years.^[3] After a brief stint on a radio in Adelaide, Smith returned to Auckland in 1985, presenting on 1ZB, soon renamed Newstalk ZB. He remained in the 8:30am to midday timeslot until his retirement in 2018.^[3]

Smith won Best Talk Back Host or Hosts - All Markets at the 2013 New Zealand Radio Awards.^[4] In October 2018 he was presented with a Scroll of Honour from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand for his contribution to New Zealand entertainment.

In a 2007 interview with libertarian magazine the Free Radical, he described himself as somewhat libertarian.^[5] He released his book Beyond the Microphone at the end of 2013.^[6]

References

1. ^Newstalk ZB Presenter page {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312171825/http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/personalities.asp?menu=3&menuitem=2 |date=12 March 2007 }}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/being-leighton-departing-radio-talk-star-on-love-luck-and-not-looking-back/|title=Leighton Smith on love, luck and not looking back|date=8 December 2018|accessdate=17 March 2019|work=Newstalk ZB}}
3. ^¹{{cite news |title=There's something about: Leighton Smith, broadcaster |url= https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11141150 |newspaper=The New Zealand Herald |date=19 October 2013 |accessdate=9 December 2018}}
4. ^http://radioawards.co.nz/docs/Winners-Results-2013.pdf
5. ^{{cite news|url=http://www.freeradical.co.nz/pdf/issue74/freeradical74.pdf|title=Newstalk ZB’s Leighton Smith: What Makes Him Tick?|last=Ryder |first=Susan|date=March–April 2007|publisher=Free Radical|accessdate=24 January 2010}}
6. ^http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/9374898/A-host-with-the-most