Guy, Sharyn & Clint

Guy, Sharyn & Clint
Owner MediaWorks New Zealand
Country New Zealand
Introduced 2014
Discontinued 2017

Guy, Sharyn & Clint is a MediaWorks New Zealand brand, composed of personalities Guy Williams, Sharyn Casey and Clint Roberts. The trio host The Edge drive show The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint, Saturday show The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint, and previously, Four television programme The Xtra Factor, a follow-up programme of the second New Zealand series of The X Factor. The brand will be discontinued in 2017, when Guy Williams and Clint Roberts leaves The Edge, and replaced by Jono, Ben & Sharyn.

Personalities

Guy Williams

Guy Williams is a New Zealand comedian and radio and television personality. His only previous work at The Edge was in December 2013, when he co-hosted the breakfast show with Sharyn Casey (and later, Clint Roberts) to fill in for Jay-Jay Mike & Dom. He also co-hosts TV3 satirical show Jono and Ben and narrated Come Dine with Me New Zealand.[1]

Sharyn Casey

Main article: Sharyn Casey

Sharyn Casey is a radio and television personality. After working in retail since dropping out of high school the age of 15, she started working in radio in 2004.[2] She has worked for The Edge since 2006, when she won the "Quit Your Day Job" promotion.[3] Previously, she has co-hosted other radio shows on The Edge, as well as television shows Four Live on Four, the New Zealand version of Dancing with the Stars on TV3,[4] and The Music Lab on The Edge TV.

Clint Roberts

Clint Roberts, also known by his DJ persona of Emergency DJ Clint, is a radio personality and DJ. He has worked for The Edge since 2006.[5] Previously, he has co-hosted other radio shows on The Edge, and hosted Hot Right Now on The Edge TV. He has been MC for, among others, music festivals The Future Music Festival and Rhythm & Vines.[3]

The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint

The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint
Genre Comedy
Running time 4 hours
Language(s) English
Home station The Edge
Hosted by Guy Williams
Sharyn Casey
Clint Roberts
Produced by
  • Chang Hung (Jan 2014–Mar 2016)
  • Oscar Jackson (Mar 2016–present)
Website www.theedge.co.nz/Shows/TheEdgeAfternoons.aspx
Podcast www.theedge.co.nz/DesktopModules/Article Presentation/External.aspx?tabid=261&moduleid=10149

The Edge Afternoons with Guy, Sharyn & Clint is broadcast on The Edge from 3 pm through 7 pm on weekdays. Debuting on 20 January 2014,[6] it was formed after the hosts of The Edge's previous afternoon show, Carl Fletcher and Vaughan Smith, quit to work at rival station ZM's morning show Fletch, Vaughan & Megan.[7][8] Oscar Jackson produces the show. Prior to March 2016, Chang Hung was the show's producer[9] and a backup presenter before he moved to do more behind-the-scenes work at The Edge. Hourly news headlines are by Glen. Prior to March 2016, they were read by Megan Annear, host of The Edge Workday of Awesome and Takeaways.

The radio show was rated the top radio drive show in New Zealand by a 2014 market survey[10] and received approximately 227,300 listeners every week as of 2014.[11] As well as being broadcast on FM frequencies throughout New Zealand, the show is streamed live via the internet on The Edge's website and its Android and iOS apps.

The show, without the music, news or advertisements, is published as a podcast.[12] An archived version of the podcast from January through September 2014 and from 5 April 2016 can be found at http://pod.neocities.org/gsc.html.

The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint

The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint
Running time 3 hours
Language(s) English
Home station The Edge
Hosted by Guy Williams
Sharyn Casey
Clint Roberts
Website www.theedge.co.nz/Music/Fat40.aspx

The Edge Fat 40 with Guy, Sharyn & Clint is broadcast on The Edge from 2 pm through 5 pm on Saturdays. It features a countdown of the 40 biggest songs, as calculated by a mixture of online music rating website musiclab.net.nz and votes for that week's Smash! 20.

Unlike their weekday show, The Edge Fat 40 is not available as a podcast, as voice breaks are mostly filled with discussion about just played or upcoming songs, or current promotions.

The Xtra Factor

The Xtra Factor
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 1
No. of episodes 20
Release
Original network Four
Original release March 15 (2015-03-15) – May 18, 2015 (2015-05-18)

The Xtra Factor was a television programme that was broadcast immediately after the live shows of the second New Zealand series of The X Factor, in the format of a "sports-style analysis show".[13][14] It aired on Four, sister channel of The X Factor's channel TV3, on Sunday and Monday, then on The Edge TV on Monday and Tuesday at 7 pm. It was a replacement of behind-the-scenes video blog Samsung Insider, which was part of the first series of The X Factor.[15][16] The first episode aired on 15 March 2015, immediately preceding the first live show,[17] and the final episode on 18 May 2015, immediately preceding the final results show. In the final episode, series winner Beau Monga was presented with his car as part of his prize. On 25 May 2015, the trio presented an hour long special entitled The X Factor All Access in The X Factor's previous Monday timeslot on TV3. It featured behind-the-scenes footage and the presenters' favourite moments of the second New Zealand series of The X Factor.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "'Inside a s*** tornado' - comedian trolled for filling Campbell Live timeslot". One News. 10 June 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sharyn Casey's profile". The Edge. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  3. 1 2 "The Xtra Factor". Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  4. ↑ Page, Emma (2 June 2015). "Sharyn Casey talks Dancing with the Stars". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Clint Roberts' profile". The Edge. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 19 September 2015.
  6. ↑ Weber, Adriana (18 January 2014). "The Edge's Clint Roberts a Rotorua boy at heart". Rotorua Daily Post. Retrieved 24 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Top radio duo head for TRN". National Business Review. 29 July 2013. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Fletch, Vaughan & Megan". ZM. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "Comedian Guy Williams Joins the Edge". Scoop. The Edge. 15 January 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "NZ's #1 Radio Station is Now NZ's #1 Music TV Channel". MediaWorks. 21 August 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  11. ↑ "Radio survey results: the battle for ears continues across the radio divide". 11 April 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  12. ↑ "Guy, Sharyn and Clint Podcast". Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  13. ↑ "Weekend Watch: Michael Jordan, Marriages and Maori Twilight Zone". The New Zealand Herald. 13 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  14. ↑ "New additions to The X Factor NZ family". Voxy.co.nz. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  15. ↑ "Huge, awesome news!". Facebook. X Factor NZ. Retrieved 6 March 2015.
  16. ↑ "MEDIAWORKS ANNOUNCES TWO NEW ADDITIONS TO THE X FACTOR NZ FAMILY". Throng.co.nz. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  17. ↑ "THE EDGE AFTERNOONS' GUY, SHARYN AND CLINT TO HOST THE XTRA FACTOR". Mediaworks. 9 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2015.
  18. ↑ "The X Factor All Access". TV3. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
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