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Yeo presented the breakfast show on 2ZB in [[Wellington]] for 23 years from 1972 to 1995.<ref name=":0" /> It was consistently the number one rated Wellington breakfast radio programme until the late 1980s.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In 1973 Yeo created the children's character "Buzz O'Bumble".<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Dekker |first=Diana |date=23 May 1998 |title=Out, but not down |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/out-not-down/docview/314582737/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=9 |via=Proquest}}</ref><ref>Kerryn Pollock. '[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/childhood/2/3 Childhood - Buzz O'Bumble]', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 22 March 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2011.</ref> "Buzz" appeared every day on the radio show, with his other friends "Belinda" the bee and "Wally Weta".{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Little has been heard of these characters since the format of 2ZB changed to news/talk in the late 1990s, and his community-oriented breakfast show was replaced with news and interviews.<ref>[http://www.archivesearch.co.nz/?webid=ADM&articleid=2901 Bang - Ron Sneddon on media] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723102727/http://www.archivesearch.co.nz/?webid=ADM&articleid=2901 |date=23 July 2011 }}, AdMedia magazine, November 2000.</ref> [[Wellington Museum]] has Buzz O'Bumble's mask and jacket on display.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 June 2023 |title=Beloved bee on show at Wellington Museum |url=https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350020881/culture-bites-friday-june-16 |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=www.thepost.co.nz}}</ref>
Yeo presented the breakfast show on 2ZB in [[Wellington]] for 23 years from 1972 to 1995.<ref name=":0" /> It was consistently the number one rated Wellington breakfast radio programme until the late 1980s.{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} In 1973 Yeo created the children's character "Buzz O'Bumble".<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Dekker |first=Diana |date=23 May 1998 |title=Out, but not down |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/out-not-down/docview/314582737/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=9 |via=Proquest}}</ref><ref>Kerryn Pollock. '[http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/childhood/2/3 Childhood - Buzz O'Bumble]', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 22 March 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2011.</ref> "Buzz" appeared every day on the radio show, with his other friends "Belinda" the bee and "Wally Weta".{{Citation needed|date=November 2024}} Little has been heard of these characters since the format of 2ZB changed to news/talk in the late 1990s, and his community-oriented breakfast show was replaced with news and interviews.<ref>[http://www.archivesearch.co.nz/?webid=ADM&articleid=2901 Bang - Ron Sneddon on media] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723102727/http://www.archivesearch.co.nz/?webid=ADM&articleid=2901 |date=23 July 2011 }}, AdMedia magazine, November 2000.</ref> [[Wellington Museum]] has Buzz O'Bumble's mask and jacket on display.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 June 2023 |title=Beloved bee on show at Wellington Museum |url=https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350020881/culture-bites-friday-june-16 |access-date=2024-11-04 |website=www.thepost.co.nz}}</ref>


In April 1997, Yeo moved from Newstalk ZB to Classic Hits 90FM where he hosted a new show.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 April 1997 |title=DIARY |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/diary/docview/314965036/se-2 |work=Dominion |via=Proquest}}</ref> There was considerable local support for Yeo and opposition to his removal from Newstalk ZB to be replaced by [[Paul Holmes (broadcaster)|Paul Holmes]] whose breakfast show was networked from Auckland.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hawkins |first=Barry |date=29 April 1997 |title=Return of a talk supremo |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/return-talk-supremo/docview/314450652/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=5 |via=Proquest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cessford |first=Christine |date=27 March 1997 |title=Now is not the hour for Yeo show |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/now-is-not-hour-yeo-show/docview/314500387/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=1 |via=Proquest}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Espiner |first=Guyon |date=4 November 1997 |title=Capital may lose more air time to Auckland |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/capital-may-lose-more-air-time-auckland/docview/314543829/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=3 |via=Proquest}}</ref> Later that year the rating for Holmes's show had dropped while Yeo's ratings for his morning show on Classic Hits had risen.<ref name=":2" /> Support for Yeo and local radio shows rather than content produced in Auckland continued with Wellington mayors meeting Newstalk ZB managers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Espiner |first=Guyon |date=29 January 1998 |title=Mayors tackle ZB over local cuts |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/mayors-tackle-zb-over-local-cuts/docview/314544760/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=3 |via=Proquest}}</ref> In May 1998 Yeo lost his job as breakfast show host on Classic Hits.<ref name=":1" /> The reason given was that Classic Hits was looking to appeal to a younger audience while Yeo was popular with an older demographic.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 May 1998 |title=Yeo leaves classic hits |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/yeo-leaves-classic-hits/docview/314089675/se-2 |work=[[The Press]] |page=38 |via=Proquest}}</ref> After the show ended, Yeo retired to the [[Tasman District]] in 2001.<ref name="Waimea Weekly">{{cite news |url=https://issuu.com/waimea-weekly/docs/october_19_2016_-_waimea_weekly_32p |title=Radiyo Richmond an oldie but a goodie |date=19 October 2016 |first=Simon |last=Bloomberg |work=Waimea Weekly |pages=1–2 |access-date=6 November 2024}}</ref> In 2016, Yeo launched a hobby radio station, Radiyo Richmond, broadcasting on a low power frequency to the local area from his home studio, and playing "non-stop pleasant music from all genres" aimed at listeners in his own age group.<ref name="Waimea Weekly"/>
In April 1997, Yeo moved from Newstalk ZB to Classic Hits 90FM where he hosted a new show.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 April 1997 |title=DIARY |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/diary/docview/314965036/se-2 |work=Dominion |via=Proquest}}</ref> There was considerable local support for Yeo and opposition to his removal from Newstalk ZB to be replaced by [[Paul Holmes (broadcaster)|Paul Holmes]] whose breakfast show was networked from Auckland.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hawkins |first=Barry |date=29 April 1997 |title=Return of a talk supremo |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/return-talk-supremo/docview/314450652/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=5 |via=Proquest}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Cessford |first=Christine |date=27 March 1997 |title=Now is not the hour for Yeo show |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/now-is-not-hour-yeo-show/docview/314500387/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=1 |via=Proquest}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Espiner |first=Guyon |date=4 November 1997 |title=Capital may lose more air time to Auckland |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/capital-may-lose-more-air-time-auckland/docview/314543829/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=3 |via=Proquest}}</ref> Later that year the rating for Holmes's show had dropped while Yeo's ratings for his morning show on Classic Hits had risen.<ref name=":2" /> Support for Yeo and local radio shows rather than content produced in Auckland continued with Wellington mayors meeting Newstalk ZB managers.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Espiner |first=Guyon |date=29 January 1998 |title=Mayors tackle ZB over local cuts |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/mayors-tackle-zb-over-local-cuts/docview/314544760/se-2 |work=Evening Post |page=3 |via=Proquest}}</ref> In May 1998 Yeo lost his job as breakfast show host on Classic Hits.<ref name=":1" /> The reason given was that Classic Hits was looking to appeal to a younger audience while Yeo was popular with an older demographic.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 May 1998 |title=Yeo leaves classic hits |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/yeo-leaves-classic-hits/docview/314089675/se-2 |work=[[The Press]] |page=38 |via=Proquest}}</ref>

In 1992 radio reviewer Jane Hurley acknowledged the appeal of Yeo's 2ZB breakfast show as follows:<blockquote>"The show really rides on Yeo's personality and he's certainly got plenty of that. He's not so much cheerful as permanently stuck in life-and-soul-of-the-party mode. Yeo hardly ever just speaks; he cajoles, he burbles, he sings out, he hams up nearly every word. The whole show's like one long version of the old panto routine, the one that goes "Oh no I didn't/Oh yes you did!"...... it was kinda fun – a loud but genuinely Kiwi version of breakfast bounce, right down to the overgrown buzzy bee mascot. Yeo, bro, I reckon you might just deserve your swarms of fans."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hurley |first=Jane |date=17 October 1992 |title=Listening to the radiyeo |journal=NZ Listener |volume=136 |issue=2742 |page=63}}</ref></blockquote>Yeo retired to the [[Tasman District]] in 2001.<ref name="Waimea Weekly">{{cite news |url=https://issuu.com/waimea-weekly/docs/october_19_2016_-_waimea_weekly_32p |title=Radiyo Richmond an oldie but a goodie |date=19 October 2016 |first=Simon |last=Bloomberg |work=Waimea Weekly |pages=1–2 |access-date=6 November 2024}}</ref> In 2016, he launched a hobby radio station, Radiyo Richmond, broadcasting on a low power frequency to the local area from his home studio, and playing "non-stop pleasant music from all genres" aimed at listeners in his own age group.<ref name="Waimea Weekly" />


Yeo won the metropolitan station section of Local Air Personality of the Year in the Mobil Radio Awards in 1982.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 March 1982 |title=Top radio people |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19820330.2.57 |access-date=5 November 2024 |work=[[The Press]] |page=6 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> Later in 1982 he was the first host of [[TVNZ|Television New Zealand]]'s dance show ''Top Dance '82.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 September 1982 |title=New dance series |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19820907.2.103.1 |access-date=5 November 2024 |work=[[The Press]] |page=17 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> In early 1984 he returned to Invercargill to do a special broadcast on 4ZA after the city and Southland towns were affected by flooding.<ref name=":3" />
Yeo won the metropolitan station section of Local Air Personality of the Year in the Mobil Radio Awards in 1982.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 March 1982 |title=Top radio people |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19820330.2.57 |access-date=5 November 2024 |work=[[The Press]] |page=6 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> Later in 1982 he was the first host of [[TVNZ|Television New Zealand]]'s dance show ''Top Dance '82.''<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 September 1982 |title=New dance series |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19820907.2.103.1 |access-date=5 November 2024 |work=[[The Press]] |page=17 |via=[[PapersPast]]}}</ref> In early 1984 he returned to Invercargill to do a special broadcast on 4ZA after the city and Southland towns were affected by flooding.<ref name=":3" />

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Lindsay Yeo
Born
Lindsay Gilbert Yeo

1946 (age 77–78)
OccupationRadio personality
Years active1964–1998
Known for
  • Host of 2ZB breakfast show (1972–1995)
  • creation of "Buzz O'Bumble"
Children4
AwardsLocal air personality of the year (metropolitan) (1982)

Lindsay Gilbert Yeo (born 1946) is a former New Zealand radio broadcaster. He is best known for hosting the 2ZB breakfast show in Wellington between 1972 and 1995, and for his creation of the children's character "Buzz O'Bumble".

Biography

Yeo was born in 1946[1] in Southland where he grew up.[2] As a teenager he played in a band called the Teen Beat Five.[2] His career in radio began in 1964 when he was a copywriter with the 4ZA radio station in Invercargill.[3] He was trained by broadcaster and educator Haydn Sherley.[4] Yeo went on to host the breakfast show on 2ZN, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation's (NZBC) commercial radio station in Nelson, until moving to NZBC head office in Wellington in 1971.[5]

Yeo presented the breakfast show on 2ZB in Wellington for 23 years from 1972 to 1995.[3] It was consistently the number one rated Wellington breakfast radio programme until the late 1980s.[citation needed] In 1973 Yeo created the children's character "Buzz O'Bumble".[6][7] "Buzz" appeared every day on the radio show, with his other friends "Belinda" the bee and "Wally Weta".[citation needed] Little has been heard of these characters since the format of 2ZB changed to news/talk in the late 1990s, and his community-oriented breakfast show was replaced with news and interviews.[8] Wellington Museum has Buzz O'Bumble's mask and jacket on display.[9]

In April 1997, Yeo moved from Newstalk ZB to Classic Hits 90FM where he hosted a new show.[10] There was considerable local support for Yeo and opposition to his removal from Newstalk ZB to be replaced by Paul Holmes whose breakfast show was networked from Auckland.[11][12][13] Later that year the rating for Holmes's show had dropped while Yeo's ratings for his morning show on Classic Hits had risen.[13] Support for Yeo and local radio shows rather than content produced in Auckland continued with Wellington mayors meeting Newstalk ZB managers.[14] In May 1998 Yeo lost his job as breakfast show host on Classic Hits.[6] The reason given was that Classic Hits was looking to appeal to a younger audience while Yeo was popular with an older demographic.[15]

In 1992 radio reviewer Jane Hurley acknowledged the appeal of Yeo's 2ZB breakfast show as follows:

"The show really rides on Yeo's personality and he's certainly got plenty of that. He's not so much cheerful as permanently stuck in life-and-soul-of-the-party mode. Yeo hardly ever just speaks; he cajoles, he burbles, he sings out, he hams up nearly every word. The whole show's like one long version of the old panto routine, the one that goes "Oh no I didn't/Oh yes you did!"...... it was kinda fun – a loud but genuinely Kiwi version of breakfast bounce, right down to the overgrown buzzy bee mascot. Yeo, bro, I reckon you might just deserve your swarms of fans."[16]

Yeo retired to the Tasman District in 2001.[17] In 2016, he launched a hobby radio station, Radiyo Richmond, broadcasting on a low power frequency to the local area from his home studio, and playing "non-stop pleasant music from all genres" aimed at listeners in his own age group.[17]

Yeo won the metropolitan station section of Local Air Personality of the Year in the Mobil Radio Awards in 1982.[18] Later in 1982 he was the first host of Television New Zealand's dance show Top Dance '82.[19] In early 1984 he returned to Invercargill to do a special broadcast on 4ZA after the city and Southland towns were affected by flooding.[2]

In 1985, Yeo was one of eight celebrity guest conductors at a Wellington Regional Orchestra VIP concert. Yeo conducted Flight of the Bumblebee.[20]

Yeo and his wife Jan, whom he married in 1969,[5] ran other businesses including a fancy dress costume shop in Karori and rest homes.[6] The couple have three sons and one daughter.[6] Yeo's nephew, also named Lindsay Yeo, is a psychologist and singer.[21]

References

  1. ^ "Yeo, Lindsay, 1946-". tiaki.natlib.govt.nz. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Bourke, Chris (3 March 1984). "Spirit generated by flood". NZ Listener. 106 (2299): 18.
  3. ^ a b Hawkins, Barry (2 April 1997). "Gentle yeo faces bully of hard-nosed news". Evening Post. p. 7 – via Proquest.
  4. ^ Blundell, Kay (21 June 2007). "Mellow tones jazzed up our airwaves". Dominion Post. p. B7 – via Proquest.
  5. ^ a b "Popular pair push on". Nelson Photo News. No. 127. 29 May 1971. p. 19. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  6. ^ a b c d Dekker, Diana (23 May 1998). "Out, but not down". Evening Post. p. 9 – via Proquest.
  7. ^ Kerryn Pollock. 'Childhood - Buzz O'Bumble', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 22 March 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
  8. ^ Bang - Ron Sneddon on media Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, AdMedia magazine, November 2000.
  9. ^ "Beloved bee on show at Wellington Museum". www.thepost.co.nz. 16 June 2023. Retrieved 4 November 2024.
  10. ^ "DIARY". Dominion. 29 April 1997 – via Proquest.
  11. ^ Hawkins, Barry (29 April 1997). "Return of a talk supremo". Evening Post. p. 5 – via Proquest.
  12. ^ Cessford, Christine (27 March 1997). "Now is not the hour for Yeo show". Evening Post. p. 1 – via Proquest.
  13. ^ a b Espiner, Guyon (4 November 1997). "Capital may lose more air time to Auckland". Evening Post. p. 3 – via Proquest.
  14. ^ Espiner, Guyon (29 January 1998). "Mayors tackle ZB over local cuts". Evening Post. p. 3 – via Proquest.
  15. ^ "Yeo leaves classic hits". The Press. 18 May 1998. p. 38 – via Proquest.
  16. ^ Hurley, Jane (17 October 1992). "Listening to the radiyeo". NZ Listener. 136 (2742): 63.
  17. ^ a b Bloomberg, Simon (19 October 2016). "Radiyo Richmond an oldie but a goodie". Waimea Weekly. pp. 1–2. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  18. ^ "Top radio people". The Press. 30 March 1982. p. 6. Retrieved 5 November 2024 – via PapersPast.
  19. ^ "New dance series". The Press. 7 September 1982. p. 17. Retrieved 5 November 2024 – via PapersPast.
  20. ^ "V.I.P.S to try music". The Press. 7 February 1985. p. 29. Retrieved 5 November 2024 – via PapersPast.
  21. ^ Lacy, Judith (4 October 2023). "Palmerston North singer Lindsay Yeo to star in comedic opera The Telephone". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
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