User:PaddyTePou

Welcome to my FANDOM account.

My name is Patrick Te Pou, but on Media Spy I am also known as just Paddy. I am based in New Zealand and I am from Kawerau in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.

I was diagnosed with autism at the age of three. I first entered broadcasting in 2007 as a special needs student at Kawerau College (now Tarawera High School) announcing for a now-defunct community radio station called Radio Kawerau (or Radio K as it was also known). My broadcasting career lasted just six weeks and as a result, Radio Kawerau was shut down.

I have never worked in the television industry but my ambition is to transform my dream media venture - Patrick Te Pou Enterprises Ltd, trading as PTV Network New Zealand or just PTV Network - into reality. There are 7 free-to-air television channels in the pipeline, but I created Independent Radio New Zealand (IRNZ), with 6 national radio services and 10+ digital radio services, as a 100% owned subsidiary of PTV Network.

More to come later.