Career
He currently works as the weekly Breakfast host on radio station Newstalk ZB and as a co-host of Seven Sharp. He has lived and worked as a broadcaster in Wellington, Christchurch and currently, Auckland. Hosking"s early career was in radio, working on the Radio New Zealand commercial network in the early 1990s hosting The Tonight Show nationwide, with a music and talkback format.
He then went on to co-host Morning Report on National Radio with Geoff Robinson.
Hosking first joined Television New Zealand in 1997, when it began its Breakfast show. He was then axed from the show in 2004.
He made his return to television in 2008 when he filled in on Television New Zealand"s Close Up programme. He hosted the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? New Zealand, which began in September 2008 on television ONE. In 2014, he and Toni Street joined Jesse Mulligan on the Seven Sharp panel for the show"s second season.
I’m to the right of Roger Douglas."
In 2012, Hosking was revealed to have received $48,000 in payments and perks from SkyCity Auckland Casino for doing regular work for them, while still working as presenter for Television New Zealand. During controversy over proposed taxpayer subsidies for Sky City building a national convention centre, Hosking wrote in defence of the subsidy, describing the convention centre as an "aspirational investment".
In 2013, he was the master of ceremonies at Prime Minister John Key"s state of the nation speech, which he also endorsed. Hosking is a climate change skeptic, stating on Seven Sharp that he doesn"t believe in the IPCC report. In 2015, Hosking was accused of overt political bias by New Zealand First leader Winston Peters and Labour leader Andrew Little, a claim strongly denied by Hosking and Prime Minister John Key.
