Chris Bourn on listener cover from 1973Chris joined WNTV1 as a Presentation Officer 1964 and became the channel’s first Sports Producer. He went on to become Entertainment Producer and Director and then for 12 years was Head of Presentation, Promotion and Publicity. Other positions included Head of Entertainment, and Director of Opera in the Park, Christmas in the Park and Symphony in the Park for 20 years. Chris retired in 2002, and was awarded the Golden Disc from the NZ Recording Industry for services to Entertainment, and the NBOA Award for service to Television.

He was a contributor to the site Kiwiboomers (seems to have disappeared so link is now to Internet archive) where he published some articles look at television broadcasting in New Zealand.

Mentions and shows he was involved with here at KiwiTV: