Kate Hawkesby leaves her Newstalk ZB Early Edition show on Friday. Photo / Michael Craig
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Newstalk ZB host Kate Hawkesby has this morning farewelled her Early Edition audience, signing off from her radio show for the final time in what she describes to Media Insider as a “bittersweet” moment.
On air, she paid tribute to her audience, her producer and two New Zealand broadcasting legends – her husband, Mike Hosking and her father John Hawkesby.
Hosking, she says, is her “constant biggest cheerleader, listener and fan, closely followed by my dad, who wakes every morning at 5am to listen in via…
