Show History
Polly and Grant first teamed up together in the early nineties along with Nick Tansley presenting their show exclusively on ZMFM in Wellington this was at a time when ZM in Wellington was live and local 24 hours and day and not networked to any other region. The show has always been a top rating show in the Wellington market and Polly and Grant have won awards at the New Zealand Radio Awards.
The Wellington based breakfast show hosted by Polly, Nick and Grant was networked into Palmerston North in 1997 when ZM launched in Palmerston North. The Palmerston North show was the same as the Wellington show with live voice breaks mostly tailored to the Wellington audience. In 2000 Polly, Nick and Grant went off the air in Palmerston North when all shows on ZM in Palmerston North were replaced with Auckland based shows.
In 2001 the Wellington based ZM breakfast show went nationwide, previously other regions had the Auckland based morning show hosted by Marcus Lush this show did not rate that well so as a result the Wellington based show became the nationwide breakfast show. Originally ZM ran their breakfast show between 6AM and 9AM for all regions and then after 9AM the ZM Morning Crew would continue their show exclusively for Wellington only with other regions starting the workday show at 9AM, ZM chose to do this so that one hour of the show could still be treated as a local show for the Wellington audience.
At the start of 2004 ZM decided not to renew Nick's contract and the show was now presented by just Polly and Grant, Nick worked on the breakfast show on Wellington's More FM between 2005 and 2008. Later in 2004 ZM ran a competition to find an extra for their show who would be known as their apprentice. The winner was Cam Bisley who was known as the 19 Year old virgin from the Hawkes Bay. Cam now takes on the role as the 'Out and About Guy' a role previously done by Nick although more recently Cam has less involvement with the ZM Morning Crew and spends more time as one of the ZM Wellington Black Thunder Drivers.
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