The Polly and Grant Show
| Genre |
AC Gossip |
|---|---|
| Running time | 6am–9am Monday - Friday 6am–10am Saturday |
| Country of origin |
 New Zealand
|
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | rova and More FM |
| Hosted by | Pauline "Polly" Gillespie Grant Kereama |
| Recording studio | Wellington |
| Original release | 2001 (ZM 2001–April 2014; The Hits April 2014–2016; More FM July 2017–present; rova July 2017–present) – 2017 |
Polly & Grant (previously known as The ZM Morning Crew and The Polly and Grant Show) is a weekend radio breakfast show on New Zealand radio network More FM, and an internet-only radio station on Rova. The show is presented by Pauline Gillespie (Polly) and Grant Kereama. It was previously produced by Marc Peard, known as "New Hot Guy", and previously aired on ZM and The Hits.
In 2007 the Morning Crew won the Best Metropolitan Music Breakfast Hosts award at the New Zealand Radio Awards.
Polly and Grant first teamed up together in the late eighties along with Nick Tansley presenting their show exclusively on ZMFM in Wellington this was at a time when ZM in Wellington was live and local 24 hours and day and not networked to any other region. Polly and Grant initially started out working different shifts before moving together to the breakfast show. The show has always been a top rating show in the Wellington market and Polly and Grant have won awards at the New Zealand Radio Awards.
The Wellington-based breakfast show hosted by Polly, Nick and Grant was networked into Palmerston North in 1997 when ZM launched in Palmerston North. The Palmerston North show was the same as the Wellington show with live voice breaks mostly tailored to the Wellington audience. In 2000 Polly, Nick and Grant went off the air in Palmerston North when all shows on ZM in Palmerston North were replaced with Auckland-based shows.
In 2001 the Wellington-based ZM breakfast show went nationwide, previously other regions had the Auckland-based morning show hosted by Marcus Lush this show did not rate that well so as a result the Wellington-based show became the nationwide breakfast show. Originally ZM ran their breakfast show between 6AM and 9AM for all regions and then after 9AM the ZM Morning Crew would continue their show exclusively for Wellington only with other regions starting the workday show at 9AM, ZM chose to do this so that one hour of the show could still be treated as a local show for the Wellington audience.
At the start of 2004 ZM decided not to renew Nick's contract and the show was now presented by just Polly and Grant, Nick worked on the breakfast show on Wellington's ZM between 2005 and 2008. Later in 2004 ZM ran a competition to find an extra for their show who would be known as their apprentice. The winner was Cam Bisley who was known as the 19 Year old virgin from the Hawkes Bay. Cam lasted on the station until 2007. Since 2004 the show has been produced by Mark Peard who is known on air as New Hot Guy.
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