For Immediate Release: April 21 2009

Super City gets a work over on TV

John Banks misses the party – and the chance to defend himself.

John Key and his Beehive brigade get castigated for knee-capping.

But anyone thinking the Super City will never happen needs to watch four top local body politicians and a couple of business powerbrokers chew it over on nationwide television at 9pm tonight (Editors: Wednesday April 22).

There are disagreements, points scoring and posturing, but the overall outcome will surprise the regions’ ratepayers.

Triangle and Stratos Television will simulcast a free and frank exchange of opinions on the Super City recorded live yesterday.

David Beatson, one of New Zealand’s most experienced current affairs analysts and a veteran broadcaster, puts the hard questions to a panel of the region’s local government politicians, a representative the Committee for Auckland and of a powerful lobby for infrastructure development.

The panel is Nick Main (Committee for Auckland), Stephen Selwood (NZCID), Mike Lee (Auckland Regional Council) and Mayors Bob Harvey (Waitakere), Len Brown (Manukau) and Andrew Williams (North Shore).

Recorded live and sponsored by the Planning Institute of NZ, the Super City debate will be simulcast on UHF Channels 41, 42 and 52 and in Christchurch via TelstraClear cable (Channel 50). Triangle’s sister channel, Stratos Television, broadcasts nationwide via Sky Digital (Channel 89), Freeview (Channel 21) and TelstraClear cable.

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