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Pilot of the airwaves. He's been as much a part of Wellington's breakfast as toast and coffee, but the changing demands of a fickle radio market may be bringing Lindsay Yeo's dream run to an end. LINDSAY Yeo goes live to the day's disaster scenes but is clearly more at ease chatting about rugby with a Kilbirnie plumber.
When he turns over rocks to reveal life's seamier side it is with a very long stick.
Yeo's harder edge of recent years is a response to a demand for a more serious, news-oriented approach to the breakfast job. He is clearly not revelling in this ratings-driven format.
His folksy, down-home style honed over decades targeted listeners who mostly wanted to know the time, whether to wear a raincoat to work and who won the phone-in for the Cliff Richard CD.
It was a winning formula and kept his 2ZB breakfast show at the top of the pile for 23 years until 91ZM knocked him off his perch in 1995.
Jokes, Buzz O'Bumble and personalised commercial promotions were his stock in trade.
Now there is speculation that Paul Holmes will soon claim Wellington as...