August 8, 2026 • 16 mins
Newstalk ZB celebrates 100 years today, and veteran sports broadcaster Murray Deaker's been a key part of that history for decades.
For more than 30 years, Murray Deaker's been inspiring debate and discussion, breaking big sports stories, and been interacting with some of the biggest names in Kiwi sport.
He joined Piney to look back on some career highlights to mark the occasion.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
As News Talks EDB celebrates one hundred years of broadcasting,
there are certain voices that have become part of New
Zealand's sporting soundtrack, and few are more recognizable than Murray Deecer's.
For more than thirty years, Murray was one of the
country's most influential and uncompromising sports broadcasters. His program's spark
(00:34):
Debate broke stories, challenged the biggest names in sport and
gave listeners a platform to have their say. Whether you
agreed with him or not, you always listened along the way.
He won the award for Best Sports Presenter Commentator seven times,
was a finalist on another ten occasions. Was appointed an
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services
(00:56):
to broadcasting in two thousand and nine, and received the
Outstanding Contribution to Radio Award in twenty fourteen. But perhaps
his greatest achievement was one of the defining voices of
New Zealand sport across a generation. As we celebrate a
century of News Talks EDB, a great pleasure to welcome
back one of the station's broadcasting legends. Murray Deecer is
(01:20):
with us. Murray, great to have you on the air.
You spent nearly thirty years behind the microphone here at
news Talks, EDB when you first walked into the ZB studio.
Did you have any idea what the journey would become?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Pony, that's an outstanding introduction. Listen, the check is on
the way. You got a word for it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, a man, a man of your quality, deserves an
intro like that. But where did it all begin?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, it basically began, as things often do. I was
a replacement for other people, mainly for Andy Hayden, and
he did a show between eleven and twelve. And at
the time I was running the Foundation for Alcohol and
Drug Education in the mative MINDE was packing pies. He
was running a pie factory. And he looked down. He
(02:09):
was the only person I'd told that I had to
get out of the area of drug and alcohol education.
Only person he looked down he saw scoreboard presenter required.
He rang me up. He said, make this is your job.
You should get into this. I rang Bill Francis said
to me, No, I didn't think you'd be interested in that,
because you dedicated to the area of education. I said, mate,
(02:32):
I've had an absolute cuts full of it. I'm ready
to move on. What happened, fortunately, was it a guy
who I don't know, called Bill McLaren. Bill McCarthy and
Wellington had been already appointed, but he was arguing about
the money that they were paying, and it was no
wonder the money was pathetic. And so while he was
(02:54):
arguing with that, they gave me a trial. And I
had been sitting in that seat where you sat too,
and I'd been there about an hour and a half
and I thought that this Jackefert Wellington comes up, I'll
kill them because I knew that this was the job
for me.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well it was the job for you, and your style
became legendary, passionate, You were forthright, You were never afraid
to ask difficult questions. Did that style come naturally or
was it something you developed over time?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
No, it was natural. I felt it was my job
to ask the questions that the listener wanted, asked that
the bloke sitting in the car driving along or the
woman preparing dinner would have asked whoever I was interviewing,
And that led at times to tough questions controversial questions
(03:45):
and it didn't matter. I viewed it very carefully that
I was there for two things, for the listeners and
to promote sport, and that was it. And of personalities
got in the way or that was their problem, not mine.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did you ever think to yourself, all, I've gone a
bit far there, or did you never think that?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No? I never thought that, never crossed my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
On talk radio, we tend to use a delay function.
It allows us to dump anything which shouldn't go to
where Now I understand that you would often broadcast without
a delay. So did you ever get caught out?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, totally. I'm coached New Orkland Secondary School's rugby team
in one of the outstanding players and it was a
guy called Murray Dixon. It was a team that had
in it Shawn Fitzpatrick, Farnobodika Feenie. You know, there were
a lot of great players, mark, great batchers in it,
but the spot was off the back of the line
(04:43):
out and he was the star. And I sort of
forgot about him as I moved into radio, And then
about nineteen ninety two he ragged me up at home
and said I need a favor, And I said DICKO,
what is it? And he said, I need to get
on your radio program. I'm working for Everyglass and I
meant to be selling this stuff. And he said, you know,
(05:06):
I need a plug and I said, just doesn't work
like that, mate, I can't do it. And I could
hear the disappointment coming all the way from west Auckland
to me. And I said to him, listen, does Epy
Glass sponsor or anything? And he said, yeah, the Tenor Cup.
And I didn't have a clue what he was talked about,
and I said, well, when's that on? He said, next
week in New Plymouth. And this is a race for
(05:30):
in peak class yachts for little boys and girls. And
so I said, you go down there, take a bobile
phone with you and cover it and I'll come to you.
So I come into z B at about eleven o'clock,
an hour before we started. By that stage buildings, as
he often did, my producers have a gap of PLEXI.
(05:51):
He said, who's this snipwork you've got coming on? I said,
what are you talking about? He said, we're announcing an
all black team at twelve o'clock and this joker wants
wants to come on before them, and so at two
o'clock what happened was this We finally I calmed down
Murray and I said to him, mate, we'll have you
on straight up the music too, and after the music too,
(06:14):
it went like this. It is the America's Cup of
secondary school yachting. The greats have been here, Blake, Dixon, Baker,
they've all competed. And now to cover this event and
association with Epiglass, that wonderful product that we've got is
(06:35):
Murray Dixon. Murray was in a tin boat and he
stood out of the tin boat and stood on a crab,
and so the cross cross went, our man down there
is Murray Dixon. Shit. Oh sorry, deeps, but I stood
on a flippant grab. Now the word wasn't flippant, but
it was rhymed with it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Amazing, amazing stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Not one from Plank, not one complaint, poney. You know,
people just know when someone's genuine or not. Dixon denies
it pat the time when I run into.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's magnificent. You mentioned Greg Billings there, your longtime producer.
Tell us a bit more about him.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, twenty three years he produced that program. He's got
he's got an amazing feel for radio. He'd been in
it all his life, you see, I hadn't been. And
when I came in, all he did was grizzled, moan
and yell at me. And I had to fill in
(07:39):
for late In Smith one day, and Carolyn Leane he
said after the intro, jeekes, that was terrific. And I
looked up at her and thought she was taking the
piss out of me, because that's all Gregor had ever done.
And yet I could not have wished for a better producer.
He suited my style. He was very loyal to me
(08:01):
behind my back. He just defended me all the time.
Must have got sick of doing it. And for twenty
three years. We went to war together. And he read
me about three days ago and he said to me,
I've just seen an ad and I won't mention the
radio station. It's not ours. He said, I've just seen
an ad for a program on a Saturday. It's got
four producers. Can you imagine that? And I thought to myself,
(08:23):
greg you know you produced it. We did six hours
on Saturday, six hours on Sunday. Every public holiday. I
did two hundred and fourteen shows in a row. Because
I wasn't prepared to not go on in case that
guy from McCarthy from Wellington came up a lot a receat,
so I wasn't going to let anyone else in there.
And we just worked together. And I've probably spent more
(08:46):
time with him than I have with my wife, and
you know, and I live with her. But Greg and
I just got on, and you know, we still get on.
We still argue, and we still fight, and he still
tells me off and I still tell him what I
think of him that I would not have swapped him anyone.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, he is a brilliant guy. He used to ring up,
It's Greg from the radio. That's all you needed to know.
It's Greg from the radio, and everybody everybody knew who
he was. Eve interviewed hundreds thousands of sports people. DICKX,
Who do you admire the most?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Richie mccaugh for all sorts of reasons, his captaincy, winning
the World Cup on one leg, but a personal side,
Richie has incredible royalty to people. So on Rebel with
a Cause on TV, I imitated Hanson and you know
(09:49):
how he aniversity show, It's going to be down the
Duddy and all that sort of stuff that he was doing,
and I did it all at the end of the program.
Richie had been injured and had been appearing on my
radio show at the top of the program, but had
loved it. So after I had done that, we went
(10:10):
to cross to him and he wasn't there. We made
inquiries and his message came back, if Mary's going to
criticize my friends like that, I don't want to barron it.
So I wasn't going to back down. I seen him
a message saying, you said, you know Henson had been
sitting straight opposite me or have said the same thing.
And we didn't make contact again for three or four months.
(10:36):
I was going through a period where basically I couldn't
get any all black on my show at all. I
went through a period one time, Finey of about three years.
People weren't aware of it because I just talked about
them instead of to them anyway. I couldn't get to anyone,
and I applied to through the channels and came through
that year. George Duncan would come on. He was the
(10:56):
message guy, and Richard Gill, who was the fit this guy,
and then R McCaw Richie flew up from Christchurch went
on the TV show. Of course we recorded at for
radio as well, and after the show we were driving
to the hotel where he was staying in Spencer On
(11:19):
Byron and I said, Tom Richie, I really appreciate you
coming up and Richie just looked at me and he said, well,
that's in the past, Murray, Let's move on. And that's
the mark of the man. He is spectacular, no question
about it. Everything I had to do with him was
to do with loyal, humility, total essence, no wonder the
(11:43):
All Blacks played well under him.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You've seen New Zealand sport evolve enormously, both during your
time behind the mic, all of that time and the
time since Murray. In your eyes, what has changed the
most for better and also for worse.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Standards are higher, I reckon, the times are better, the
skills are more developed, and the professionalism is becoming apparent.
What's worse. Club sport has suffered, particularly rugby, and I'm
disappointed in that. I get told by the guys at
north Shore Rugby Club so I'm in Gunbury and Co.
(12:22):
That their clubs has gone. And in fact it is
true that in some areas club rugby is still strong,
but there are less numbers playing and I think that
has a lot to do with the fact that there
is too much concentration on the top of the pyramid
and not enough on the grassroots. New Zealand sport is
strong when the grassroots are strong. And if I was
(12:46):
to find one other thing that stands out to me,
and it just stands out so clearly. I cannot believe
the success that New Zealand cricket has. People don't talk
about it. There is no other no other country in
the world has ever gone to India and won a
(13:06):
Test series three nil. We were the first to win
the inaugural Test Championship. We were beaten that time when
the bat ball hit Stokes as bat in the fifty
to fifty. We go to the West Indies with a
team and I'm looking at these jokers that are playing
over there. I don't even have a clue who they are.
They've been pulled in off the paddic and they beat
(13:29):
the West Indies. Could God the West Indies used to
murder us. Cricket gets a bum rush from today's media there.
It very rarely leads the TV in Z news And
you know, I'm waiting to hope that Andrew Saville is
at our reunion because I want to get right at
(13:50):
his ear and chewy about because he could do something
on that. Cricket has been the success story for me,
women's sports getting more emphasis. Why not and you do that,
and you do without thinking about it. I actually to
think about making sure that it was Webben's sport on
my program because in those days, the person who was
(14:13):
in charge of the radio in the house was the wife,
and I wanted to get ratings up, and so I
used to do a lot on netball in particular because
it was a sport I knew a little bit about
as my sister played it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Very sound strategy just to finish stakes. Zedby's been part
of New Zealand Holmes for one hundred years now, one
hundred years. When people look back at your contribution, your
significant contribution to the ZB story, what do you hope
they remember.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I hope they put a smile on their face, and
I hope that they think, hey, he told it the
way he saw it. Sometimes he got it wrong, sometimes
he got it right. But he told it with passion,
and he told it with almost love. Because really, when
I'm asked, what are the things that I like in
(15:05):
my world? Sport is right up there. Family first and
then sports second for me, and it will always be
like that, and I hope that that's what people remember,
because it was, without doubt the time of my life
that I will always look back on with warmth and
with the fact that I worked with a gang of
(15:28):
good people, but particularly the relationship with Billings was an
important one. Murray.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I just wanted to finish by thanking you personally for
the trail that you blazed for everyone who's followed you
into the wonderful world of sport on News Talks dB.
I listened to you growing up and as a young
man and never believed i'd be given the honor of
the same microphone that you had. None of us will
ever match what you did or the impact and influence
you had on many many people. Congratulations on your hugely
(15:57):
significant role in our broadcasting history, and thanks for joining
us this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You're too kind. Keep up the good work and keep
doing the job that most people would give their right
arm for, and especially me, I'd give the whole lot.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We should get you back in Dix. Good to chat
to you, Murray. Deeker the one and only.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
As News Talks EDB celebrates one hundred years of broadcasting,
there are certain voices that have become part of New
Zealand's sporting soundtrack, and few are more recognizable than Murray Deecer's.
For more than thirty years, Murray was one of the
country's most influential and uncompromising sports broadcasters. His program's spark
(00:34):
Debate broke stories, challenged the biggest names in sport and
gave listeners a platform to have their say. Whether you
agreed with him or not, you always listened along the way.
He won the award for Best Sports Presenter Commentator seven times,
was a finalist on another ten occasions. Was appointed an
Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services
(00:56):
to broadcasting in two thousand and nine, and received the
Outstanding Contribution to Radio Award in twenty fourteen. But perhaps
his greatest achievement was one of the defining voices of
New Zealand sport across a generation. As we celebrate a
century of News Talks EDB, a great pleasure to welcome
back one of the station's broadcasting legends. Murray Deecer is
(01:20):
with us. Murray, great to have you on the air.
You spent nearly thirty years behind the microphone here at
news Talks, EDB when you first walked into the ZB studio.
Did you have any idea what the journey would become?
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Pony, that's an outstanding introduction. Listen, the check is on
the way. You got a word for it.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, a man, a man of your quality, deserves an
intro like that. But where did it all begin?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, it basically began, as things often do. I was
a replacement for other people, mainly for Andy Hayden, and
he did a show between eleven and twelve. And at
the time I was running the Foundation for Alcohol and
Drug Education in the mative MINDE was packing pies. He
was running a pie factory. And he looked down. He
(02:09):
was the only person I'd told that I had to
get out of the area of drug and alcohol education.
Only person he looked down he saw scoreboard presenter required.
He rang me up. He said, make this is your job.
You should get into this. I rang Bill Francis said
to me, No, I didn't think you'd be interested in that,
because you dedicated to the area of education. I said, mate,
(02:32):
I've had an absolute cuts full of it. I'm ready
to move on. What happened, fortunately, was it a guy
who I don't know, called Bill McLaren. Bill McCarthy and
Wellington had been already appointed, but he was arguing about
the money that they were paying, and it was no
wonder the money was pathetic. And so while he was
(02:54):
arguing with that, they gave me a trial. And I
had been sitting in that seat where you sat too,
and I'd been there about an hour and a half
and I thought that this Jackefert Wellington comes up, I'll
kill them because I knew that this was the job
for me.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well it was the job for you, and your style
became legendary, passionate, You were forthright, You were never afraid
to ask difficult questions. Did that style come naturally or
was it something you developed over time?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
No, it was natural. I felt it was my job
to ask the questions that the listener wanted, asked that
the bloke sitting in the car driving along or the
woman preparing dinner would have asked whoever I was interviewing,
And that led at times to tough questions controversial questions
(03:45):
and it didn't matter. I viewed it very carefully that
I was there for two things, for the listeners and
to promote sport, and that was it. And of personalities
got in the way or that was their problem, not mine.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Did you ever think to yourself, all, I've gone a
bit far there, or did you never think that?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
No? I never thought that, never crossed my mind.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
On talk radio, we tend to use a delay function.
It allows us to dump anything which shouldn't go to
where Now I understand that you would often broadcast without
a delay. So did you ever get caught out?
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, totally. I'm coached New Orkland Secondary School's rugby team
in one of the outstanding players and it was a
guy called Murray Dixon. It was a team that had
in it Shawn Fitzpatrick, Farnobodika Feenie. You know, there were
a lot of great players, mark, great batchers in it,
but the spot was off the back of the line
(04:43):
out and he was the star. And I sort of
forgot about him as I moved into radio, And then
about nineteen ninety two he ragged me up at home
and said I need a favor, And I said DICKO,
what is it? And he said, I need to get
on your radio program. I'm working for Everyglass and I
meant to be selling this stuff. And he said, you know,
(05:06):
I need a plug and I said, just doesn't work
like that, mate, I can't do it. And I could
hear the disappointment coming all the way from west Auckland
to me. And I said to him, listen, does Epy
Glass sponsor or anything? And he said, yeah, the Tenor Cup.
And I didn't have a clue what he was talked about,
and I said, well, when's that on? He said, next
week in New Plymouth. And this is a race for
(05:30):
in peak class yachts for little boys and girls. And
so I said, you go down there, take a bobile
phone with you and cover it and I'll come to you.
So I come into z B at about eleven o'clock,
an hour before we started. By that stage buildings, as
he often did, my producers have a gap of PLEXI.
(05:51):
He said, who's this snipwork you've got coming on? I said,
what are you talking about? He said, we're announcing an
all black team at twelve o'clock and this joker wants
wants to come on before them, and so at two
o'clock what happened was this We finally I calmed down
Murray and I said to him, mate, we'll have you
on straight up the music too, and after the music too,
(06:14):
it went like this. It is the America's Cup of
secondary school yachting. The greats have been here, Blake, Dixon, Baker,
they've all competed. And now to cover this event and
association with Epiglass, that wonderful product that we've got is
(06:35):
Murray Dixon. Murray was in a tin boat and he
stood out of the tin boat and stood on a crab,
and so the cross cross went, our man down there
is Murray Dixon. Shit. Oh sorry, deeps, but I stood
on a flippant grab. Now the word wasn't flippant, but
it was rhymed with it.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Amazing, amazing stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Not one from Plank, not one complaint, poney. You know,
people just know when someone's genuine or not. Dixon denies
it pat the time when I run into.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
That's magnificent. You mentioned Greg Billings there, your longtime producer.
Tell us a bit more about him.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah, twenty three years he produced that program. He's got
he's got an amazing feel for radio. He'd been in
it all his life, you see, I hadn't been. And
when I came in, all he did was grizzled, moan
and yell at me. And I had to fill in
(07:39):
for late In Smith one day, and Carolyn Leane he
said after the intro, jeekes, that was terrific. And I
looked up at her and thought she was taking the
piss out of me, because that's all Gregor had ever done.
And yet I could not have wished for a better producer.
He suited my style. He was very loyal to me
(08:01):
behind my back. He just defended me all the time.
Must have got sick of doing it. And for twenty
three years. We went to war together. And he read
me about three days ago and he said to me,
I've just seen an ad and I won't mention the
radio station. It's not ours. He said, I've just seen
an ad for a program on a Saturday. It's got
four producers. Can you imagine that? And I thought to myself,
(08:23):
greg you know you produced it. We did six hours
on Saturday, six hours on Sunday. Every public holiday. I
did two hundred and fourteen shows in a row. Because
I wasn't prepared to not go on in case that
guy from McCarthy from Wellington came up a lot a receat,
so I wasn't going to let anyone else in there.
And we just worked together. And I've probably spent more
(08:46):
time with him than I have with my wife, and
you know, and I live with her. But Greg and
I just got on, and you know, we still get on.
We still argue, and we still fight, and he still
tells me off and I still tell him what I
think of him that I would not have swapped him anyone.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, he is a brilliant guy. He used to ring up,
It's Greg from the radio. That's all you needed to know.
It's Greg from the radio, and everybody everybody knew who
he was. Eve interviewed hundreds thousands of sports people. DICKX,
Who do you admire the most?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Richie mccaugh for all sorts of reasons, his captaincy, winning
the World Cup on one leg, but a personal side,
Richie has incredible royalty to people. So on Rebel with
a Cause on TV, I imitated Hanson and you know
(09:49):
how he aniversity show, It's going to be down the
Duddy and all that sort of stuff that he was doing,
and I did it all at the end of the program.
Richie had been injured and had been appearing on my
radio show at the top of the program, but had
loved it. So after I had done that, we went
(10:10):
to cross to him and he wasn't there. We made
inquiries and his message came back, if Mary's going to
criticize my friends like that, I don't want to barron it.
So I wasn't going to back down. I seen him
a message saying, you said, you know Henson had been
sitting straight opposite me or have said the same thing.
And we didn't make contact again for three or four months.
(10:36):
I was going through a period where basically I couldn't
get any all black on my show at all. I
went through a period one time, Finey of about three years.
People weren't aware of it because I just talked about
them instead of to them anyway. I couldn't get to anyone,
and I applied to through the channels and came through
that year. George Duncan would come on. He was the
(10:56):
message guy, and Richard Gill, who was the fit this guy,
and then R McCaw Richie flew up from Christchurch went
on the TV show. Of course we recorded at for
radio as well, and after the show we were driving
to the hotel where he was staying in Spencer On
(11:19):
Byron and I said, Tom Richie, I really appreciate you
coming up and Richie just looked at me and he said, well,
that's in the past, Murray, Let's move on. And that's
the mark of the man. He is spectacular, no question
about it. Everything I had to do with him was
to do with loyal, humility, total essence, no wonder the
(11:43):
All Blacks played well under him.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
You've seen New Zealand sport evolve enormously, both during your
time behind the mic, all of that time and the
time since Murray. In your eyes, what has changed the
most for better and also for worse.
Speaker 3 (11:59):
Standards are higher, I reckon, the times are better, the
skills are more developed, and the professionalism is becoming apparent.
What's worse. Club sport has suffered, particularly rugby, and I'm
disappointed in that. I get told by the guys at
north Shore Rugby Club so I'm in Gunbury and Co.
(12:22):
That their clubs has gone. And in fact it is
true that in some areas club rugby is still strong,
but there are less numbers playing and I think that
has a lot to do with the fact that there
is too much concentration on the top of the pyramid
and not enough on the grassroots. New Zealand sport is
strong when the grassroots are strong. And if I was
(12:46):
to find one other thing that stands out to me,
and it just stands out so clearly. I cannot believe
the success that New Zealand cricket has. People don't talk
about it. There is no other no other country in
the world has ever gone to India and won a
(13:06):
Test series three nil. We were the first to win
the inaugural Test Championship. We were beaten that time when
the bat ball hit Stokes as bat in the fifty
to fifty. We go to the West Indies with a
team and I'm looking at these jokers that are playing
over there. I don't even have a clue who they are.
They've been pulled in off the paddic and they beat
(13:29):
the West Indies. Could God the West Indies used to
murder us. Cricket gets a bum rush from today's media there.
It very rarely leads the TV in Z news And
you know, I'm waiting to hope that Andrew Saville is
at our reunion because I want to get right at
(13:50):
his ear and chewy about because he could do something
on that. Cricket has been the success story for me,
women's sports getting more emphasis. Why not and you do that,
and you do without thinking about it. I actually to
think about making sure that it was Webben's sport on
my program because in those days, the person who was
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in charge of the radio in the house was the wife,
and I wanted to get ratings up, and so I
used to do a lot on netball in particular because
it was a sport I knew a little bit about
as my sister played it.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Very sound strategy just to finish stakes. Zedby's been part
of New Zealand Holmes for one hundred years now, one
hundred years. When people look back at your contribution, your
significant contribution to the ZB story, what do you hope
they remember.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I hope they put a smile on their face, and
I hope that they think, hey, he told it the
way he saw it. Sometimes he got it wrong, sometimes
he got it right. But he told it with passion,
and he told it with almost love. Because really, when
I'm asked, what are the things that I like in
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my world? Sport is right up there. Family first and
then sports second for me, and it will always be
like that, and I hope that that's what people remember,
because it was, without doubt the time of my life
that I will always look back on with warmth and
with the fact that I worked with a gang of
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good people, but particularly the relationship with Billings was an
important one. Murray.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
I just wanted to finish by thanking you personally for
the trail that you blazed for everyone who's followed you
into the wonderful world of sport on News Talks dB.
I listened to you growing up and as a young
man and never believed i'd be given the honor of
the same microphone that you had. None of us will
ever match what you did or the impact and influence
you had on many many people. Congratulations on your hugely
(15:57):
significant role in our broadcasting history, and thanks for joining
us this afternoon.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
You're too kind. Keep up the good work and keep
doing the job that most people would give their right
arm for, and especially me, I'd give the whole lot.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
We should get you back in Dix. Good to chat
to you, Murray. Deeker the one and only.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
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