MIKE’S MILESTONE ‘News has changed my life’
It wasn’t the most auspicious start to a new job. On his first day as a newsreader at TV3 20 years ago, Mike McRoberts was driving to the studio when he realised he didn’t know exactly where the television company, now called Three, was based.
“It was before Google maps,” chuckles Mike, “and I remember driving there, thinking, ‘Where the hell is this place?’ I had to ring reception to find out.”
As it was Good Friday, he also had to get someone to let him into the building, tucked away in a side street in Auckland’s Eden Terrace. Despite suffering from first-day nerves, he felt comfortable straight away.
“I read the news with Carolyn Robinson and Wendy Petrie did the weather, and they made me feel so welcome,” recalls Mike. “I was so nervous and I can’t remember a single word
