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Dec 13, 1946 77 years old
New Zealand broadcaster
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About Leighton Smith Radio Host
- Leighton Smith (b.
- 13 December 1946) is an Australian-born award-winning talkback radio host based in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Until December 2018, he presented the 8:30 am to midday slot from Monday to Friday on commercial talk radio network Newstalk ZB.
- Smith started his broadcasting career on Sydney's SCH as a "junior disco jockey".
- He moved to New Zealand for a one-year stint with 2ZB in Wellington in 1980, but stayed for five years.
- After a brief stint on a radio in Adelaide, Smith returned to Auckland in 1985, presenting on 1ZB, soon renamed Newstalk ZB.
- He remained in the 8:30am to midday timeslot until his retirement in 2018.Smith won Best Talk Back Host or Hosts - All Markets at the 2013 New Zealand Radio Awards.
- In October 2018 he was presented with a Scroll of Honour from the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand for his contribution to New Zealand entertainment. In a 2007 interview with libertarian magazine the Free Radical, he described himself as somewhat libertarian.
- He released his book Beyond the Microphone at the end of 2013.He used to own the Clevedon Hills vineyard, near Auckland.
