No8 Wired

01/01/2004

About

No8 Wired is a weekly television magazine programme dedicated to showing what matters to the farming and rural communities.

The programme ran from August 2000 and finished its fourth series in 2004, No8 Wired became a regular part of rural New Zealand's viewing diet.

No8 Wired catered for the interests and information needs of the rural sector. Pragmatic and insightful, its reports covered all areas of the primary industry in New Zealand and concentrated on stories that don't often make it into the mainstream media. It is this attitude that led No8 Wired to being recognised for its journalistic integrity year after year.

No8 Wired was named Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year in 2001, by the New Zealand Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators. In 2002 it went one better by winning the highest award in New Zealand for ag-journalism, the BNZ Rongo Award for Excellence in Agricultural Journalism.

Then, in 2003, No8 Wired was the runner up for the same award! That year, the Guild also recognised the show's presenter, Don Carson, for his long-running services to agricultural journalism.

The programme ran for 20 weeks of the year on TV3, and was simulcast on Sky Digital.