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===Introduction of network programming=== ====Network night show==== Network programming on More FM began with the Evening and overnight shows in January 2005. The 'More FM Most Wanted' Night show was originally hosted by [[Dominic Bowden]] until the middle of 2005 and then by Tarsha Tolson until the middle of 2007 when Tarsha moved to Wellington to co-host the More FM breakfast show. The overnight show was originally hosted by Asher Bastion until he left to go to [[Life FM (radio network)|Life FM]] in June 2006. From 2015, the show was hosted by [[Joe Cotton]]. Tyler McDonald hosted the show between 2022-2023. ====Network drive and daytime shows==== In August 2009 the first Network Drive show was created. The Wellington weekday Drive show team, 'Josh & Tom' Josh van Berkel and Tom McKenzie (ex-Classic Hits South Canterbury) were re-located to Auckland and their show was networked into 19 of the 22 More FM markets over the following months. In March 2011 Josh & Tom announced they were leaving More FM. The structure of the day was reworked ending the traditional Breakfast/Day/Drive line up. From 4 April 2011 the More FM stations were local in all markets with the network programming starting at 1 pm, an hour earlier. The afternoon lineup consisted of a 1 pm β 4 pm Afternoon show hosted by former More FM Waikato breakfast host Stu Tolan and a 4 β 7 pm Drive show hosted by media personality [[Clarke Gayford]]. Christchurch, ManawatΕ« and Nelson were the exceptions to the change in format as these stations continued to broadcast locally up to 7 pm until 2015. Networked programming during the daytime began in 2013 with the introduction of a show presented by Geoff Stagg from Wellington and networked to selected regions. In 2015 More FM reverted to the traditional Breakfast/Day/Drive line up and local programming was extended in some markets to run between 6 am β 3 pm or 10 am β 3 pm for those markets taking the networked breakfast show. From 2014, Jason Gunn and Lana Searle hosted the 3 pm β 7 pm show, before Lana was replaced by [[Jay-Jay Feeney]] in 2018. Paul 'Flynny' Flynn joined the show in 2019, as Jason Gunn moved to co-host the show part-time. Jay-Jay Feeney decided to leave radio in July 2024, and since then, the drive show is hosted by Sarah Gandy and Flynny, along with producers Matthew "Pledge" Pledger and Dave Rybinski.<ref>{{cite web |title=More FM Shows |url=https://www.morefm.co.nz/home/shows.html |website=More FM |access-date=25 April 2020}}</ref> ====Network breakfast==== In 2007, the More FM Christchurch breakfast show, then presented by Si and Gary, was networked into the Nelson region. In October 2011, More FM Auckland breakfast presenter [[Jeremy Corbett]] resigned from his long-standing breakfast show. Marc Ellis was announced as his replacement along with Amber Peebles & Stu Tolan. In November 2011 an announcement was made that new Auckland based breakfast show would be networked into the Waikato and Wellington region. The 'local' daytime host read out local news and weather in their respective region as part of the networked breakfast show from 6 β 10 am. In December 2012 Amber Peebles left the show to pursue a television project. Her replacement was [[Hayley Holt]]. Marc Ellis left the show in October 2013. Stu and Hayley continued to present the network breakfast for the remainder of 2013, along with Joe Cotton. In 2014 the Christchurch breakfast, then presented by Si and Gary, became the new network breakfast show and continued to be presented from Christchurch. In April 2015 the networked breakfast was extended to Dunedin and Hawkes Bay with the local presenters in those markets moved to the local [[The Breeze (New Zealand)|The Breeze]] station in their respective markets. The show is now presented by Lana Searle and Adam Percival with [[Simon Barnett]] returning in 2025 after a 5-year hiatus. In July 2017, Pauline (Polly) Gillespie and Grant Kereama launched a Wellington-based breakfast show, which also aired in Kapiti/Horowhenua. In January 2018 this show was networked into five other markets, but in early 2020 the show reverted to a local Wellington breakfast show until June 2020, when the show ended. ====Weekend programming==== Originally weekend programming on all More FM stations remained local after the expansion and rebranding in 2005 including during Saturday and Sunday evenings and overnight. A networked evening show for weekends was introduced in late 2005. More FM began replacing local programming at the weekends with networked programming from 2007 onwards initially networking stations after 2 pm. From 2014 all More FM stations were local on Saturday morning from 6 am to 10 am, with Auckland and Christchurch local to 7 pm.
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