Paterson, Owen

was one of the best-known CHTV-3 readers, and the first person to be telecast in Christchurch when tests began on May 3, 1961. He also produced several small documentary-type programmes, including one on Erewhon as a tourist attraction. He went to England to try his luck in television.

Source: Press, 15 August 1963 and 1 June 1971