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We're sorry to hear that the iconic New Reader Phillp Sherry MNZM passed away 18 July. Our condolences to his family and friends.
Mr Sherry read the news on TVNZ from 1969 until 1986, and he was the 3 National News presenter when it went on air in late 1989 when TV3 began broadcasting.
According to Wikipedia he was born and raised in Wellington. He began presenting radio in 1960 on the local station 2YD. In 1962, with the introduction of television, the station became WNTV-1, and Sherry continued to read the Wellington news on screen. He then spent a period of time working overseas as a radio announcer in Vancouver, London (at the BBC), Hilversum (at the Dutch World Service) and Berne, and returned to New Zealand in 1967.
From 1967, Sherry worked on the nightly television news programme Town and Around. In 1969, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation launched its first national news programme and Sherry was one of the team of three newsreaders, along with Dougal Stevenson and Bill Toft. In 1975, he returned to radio broadcasting on National Radio's Morning Report, while continuing with the evening bulletins.
In 1976 Sherry began co-hosting TV2's late night news and current affairs programme News at Ten with Tom Bradley; the show was cancelled in 1977 due to the planned amalgamation of the country's two networks. In 1978, he began presenting the new twice-a-week current affairs programme Eyewitness News, and in 1982 he started reading for TV One's network news. In 1986 he moved back to radio, reading the morning news bulletin for Auckland's 1ZB. Around this time he also began presenting programmes for the Christian Broadcasting Association.
In 1989, Sherry joined new channel TV3 as the solo anchor for their main evening bulletin, 3 National News. The channel launched on Sunday 26 November 1989, with full programming, including the network's first news bulletin, starting the following day. His tenure lasted seven months.
In the early 1990s, Sherry retired from broadcasting and moved into politics.
Awards
In 1977, Sherry won the inaugural Bill Toft Memorial Trophy for Broadcaster of the Year. At the 2018 New Year Honours, Sherry was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to local government and broadcasting
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