Career
He is on air, Monday to Friday, between 8:30 am and midday on commercial talk radio network Newstalk ZB. Leighton started his broadcasting career on Sydney"s SCH as a "junior disco jockey". He moved to New Zealand for a one-year stint with 2ZB in Wellington in 1980, but stayed for five years. After a brief stint on a radio in Adelaide, Smith was back in Auckland in 1985 at 1ZB, soon renamed Newstalk ZB. He has been there ever since in the 8:30am to midday timeslot.
Singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn said recently he found God after being interviewed by Smith on his short-lived Sky television show.
In a 2007 interview with libertarian magazine the Free Radical, he described himself as somewhat libertarian. He owns the Clevedon Hills vineyard, near Auckland.
