Ms Karyn Hay, ONZM, for services to broadcasting and the music industry
Ms Karyn Hay, ONZM, for services to broadcasting and the music industry
Karyn Hay was the host of the classic music show ‘Radio with Pictures’. She is acknowledged as one of the first New Zealand presenters to speak with a distinctly New Zealand accent on television. Since hosting this show, she has made music videos and documentaries, managed Kiwi FM, hosted talkback at Radio Live, and presented a weeknight Radio New Zealand National show. Her 1986 petition for the New Zealand Music Quota, which gathered more than 250,000 signatures, helped create a voluntary quota for featuring New Zealand music artists on local radio stations. She was the inaugural Auckland chair for Women in Film and Television New Zealand. Ms Hay is also a published novelist, winning the Montana Best First Book Award and a Frank Sargeson and Michael King Fellowship.