Burke, Warwick

Warwick was born and raised in Christchurch where he auditioned for the then New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation and was posted to Greymouth for six months in 1967.

He worked in Christchurch for 3ZB and CHTV3 from 1968 until 1975, then fronted the Television One local News until 1977 when he was transferred to TV One's headquarters at Avalon, Lower Hutt.

He spent thirteen years there working firstly as a reporter and presenter in the network news until Television One went to Auckland, whereupon he worked on various feature programmes such as Fair Go and Country Calendar.

Warwick worked as a newsreader for Radio New Zealand National from 1990, for a number of years has hosted the New Year's Eve programme, and in the early 21st century he could be heard on RNZ National hosting the occasional show.

Comments from visitors:

Markl 28/01/2010
Used to do the voice overs for the up-coming programmes on TV1 as well - late 80's.