Tony Ciprian

Antony "Tony" Ciprian (10 November 1932 – 13 January 2015) was a New Zealand broadcaster, best known as a television sports news presenter and producer.

Born in 1932, Ciprian spent 10 years as a police officer before joining the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist at Gisborne radio station 2ZG.

[2] In 1971 he took a six-month sabbatical from 2ZG to study radio and television news techniques in Australia.

[2] In 1989 he moved to the newly established TV3 as that channel's first sports producer, and remained in that role for the next 20 years, apart from a couple of interruptions.

[2][5] In retirement he lived in Queensland, Australia,[2] and died at Hervey Bay in 2015.