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How to Bust Viewer Rating Records
Morris, Clive "TV Personality Parade" (1976)
Television One, launched a new five-days-a-week show last year and it busted viewer rating records all over while taking off like a rocket.
"Today At One" has been fronted by Sharon Crosbie and produced by Pamela Jones.
"Today At One", a half-hour show, has not just been a women's programme, according to Pamela.
"There have been items of interest to everyone, including such diverse topics as a daily Consumer Institute report, architecture and New Zealand houses, market reports, home repairs, keeping fit and even fishing reports."
Naomi Trigg, Gillian McGregor, Peter Hayden and Judith Fyfe make up the reporting team. They have had a free hand to investigate topics which interest them.
As Pamela says: "They've all got their special interests which we utilise for the programme. With Judith it is an interest in equal opportunities for women, although," she hastens to add, "that does not mean she is a feminist."
Gillian has had a particular interest in the environment and historic places. She's a member of the Historic Places Trust and also one of the three trustees for the Thorndon Trust. She has commuted to Avalon each day from her farm in Martinborough.
Naomi's special interest has been the consumer area and she's also a gourmet cook. "She has an inquiring mind", says the producer, "so we'll be letting her loose to film such items as 'I've always wondered what it would be like to be a crane driver'."
Peter Hayden is an actor with wide experience in theatre. Before he started with "One" he had just finished a Downstage tour with "O Temperance" and "Marat Sade"
Pamela trained in Canada where she worked for four years producing sports, current affairs and variety shows. She returned to New Zealand in time to produce the last days of "On Camera" and in 1974 produced "This Afternoon".
Quite a few "This Afternoon" programmes created such an interest that they were repeated in the early evenings. Of these Pamela rates the profile of polio victim June Opie and a programme on age beneficiaries as the most satisfying to her.
"It was the first time that we'd had beneficiaries on the programme to talk about their problems-and some of their problems were incredible," she said
With her wide experience Pamela has not found the exacting organisation involved in "Today At One" going out live too unnerving. Pamela is carrying on a family tradition of broadcasting for she is the daughter of Lance Cross, Head of Sports for the Broadcasting Council.
Frontwoman Sharon Crosbie is a former secondary school teacher, well known as an announcer in Christchurch where she conducted radio talk-back shows, as well as deputising on "The South Tonight".
On moving to Wellington she shared the fronting of the regional news programme "Newsview" with Peter Latham
Writer Joe Musaphia and actress Pat Evison appeared in the programme every day immediately after the news in one-minute sketches as Ted and Vera written by Joe
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