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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1594/
- Published: 2026-10-01T17:30:40.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T17:30:39.000Z
- Description: Gifford became one of the country’s most recognisable sporting voices, but for generations of Christchurch listeners he was equally well known as one half of a hugely successful radio partnership with Simon Barnett.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Veteran broadcaster, author and sports journalist Phil Gifford has died.  
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> His death was announced on NewstalkZB’s Christchurch bulletin at 6AM.  
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> He died in Auckland on Tuesday night, aged 79.  
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> He is survived by wife Jan and his children Emmalene, Jane, Scott and Adam.  
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> Gifford became one of the country’s most recognisable sporting voices, but for generations of Christchurch listeners he was equally well known as one half of a hugely successful radio partnership with Simon Barnett.  
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> Born in Hamilton in 1947, Gifford began his journalism career at the New Zealand Herald in 1965 before working as a news reporter for the Auckland Star.  
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> Chris Lynch Media

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