Dougal Stevenson, Dunedin, QSM, for services to broadcasting
Mr Dougal Stevenson joined the NZBC as a radio announcer in 1963 in Dunedin and has a continued association with Radio New Zealand National. In Wellington Mr Stevenson worked on the YA and YC stations and reported for the television show 'Town and Around'. After working on the public affairs programme ‘Compass’ he became a television newsreader. He delivered the first National Network Television News broadcast from Wellington in 1969. When public broadcasting was split into Radio New Zealand, Television One and Television Two, he became a newsreader until 1980. Subsequently he was involved in television’s ‘The Motor Show’, and ‘Antiques for Love or Money’ and as host of the ‘Krypton Factor’. Mr Stevenson came out of retirement to present ‘Dunedin Diary’ on Channel Nine and has for some years contributed ‘Notes from the South’ on the Sunday programme for Radio New Zealand National.