Mike Hosking

Mike Hosking
NationalityNew Zealand
Occupation(s)Broadcaster, television producer

Michael Noel James Hosking IV[1] is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster who has worked for Radio New Zealand and TVNZ and from 2008 has been the weekday breakfast host on Newstalk ZB with "The Mike Hosking Breakfast". He is a supporter of the centre-right National party and is often openly critical of the Labour-led government.[2] He has lived and worked as a broadcaster in Wellington, Christchurch and currently resides in Auckland.

The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has received several complaints against Hosking. In 2016 Andrew Judd, the Mayor of New Plymouth, was unsuccessful with his complaint that Hosking's comments related to a local issue were racist, but in 2017, a complaint by the Māori Party alleging he made misleading comments about who was eligible to enroll in Māori electorates was successful. During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the BSA also upheld a complaint that Hosking's comments about death rates for Coronavirus breached the Radio Code of Broadcasting Practice.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference Hosking week was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Bamber, Shaun. "Mike Hosking's political leanings – in his own words". Stuff. Stuff. Retrieved 18 November 2017.