{"id":5536,"date":"2023-06-13T20:16:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2023-06-13T20:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T08:16:48","slug":"rnz-presenter-karyn-hay-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=5536","title":{"rendered":"RNZ presenter Karyn Hay resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ Nights presenter Karyn Hay has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hay has decided after more than 15 years of working full time in the evenings, and four of those years at RNZ on\u00a0<i>Lately\u00a0<\/i>and more recently\u00a0<i>Nights with Karyn Hay<\/i>, to &#8230; concentrate on her writing projects,&#8221; RNZ spokesman John Barr said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;RNZ wishes her the best for her future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She has been on leave from RNZ since February.<\/p>\n<p>Hay is best known for hosting the ground-breaking television music show\u00a0<i>Radio With Pictures<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>She began her working life as a Radio New Zealand cadet and has been an award-winning copywriter, a radio announcer both here and abroad, a television front person, newspaper columnist, novelist and general manager of radio station Kiwi FM.<\/p>\n<p>Hay was also made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM) in the 2020 New Year Honours.<\/p>\n<p>Source RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RNZ Nights presenter Karyn Hay has resigned. &#8220;Hay has decided after more than 15 years of working full time in the evenings, and four of those years at RNZ on\u00a0Lately\u00a0and more recently\u00a0Nights with Karyn Hay, to &#8230; concentrate on her writing projects,&#8221; RNZ spokesman John Barr said in a statement. &#8220;RNZ wishes her the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}