That experience opened the door to his first part-time announcing job, and from there, Magee was hooked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI started at 1XX when I was 18. Back then, everything was manual, and it was a real art because you were hot mixing and everything was live. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou worked hard between ad breaks \u2014 loading each ad, signing it off, and putting it away. These days, with computers, it\u2019s so easy.\u201d<\/p>\n
After two years at 1XX, Magee ventured further afield, gaining experience around the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the \u201980s, the government deregulated radio, so stations were popping up everywhere. Jobs were plentiful. About every six months, I\u2019d get a call: \u2018Hey Colin, come and work for us\u2019. I\u2019d hop in my car and head off to another town.\u201d<\/p>\n
But once bigger networks began buying up smaller stations, the industry changed forever.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 1990, I worked in Tauranga where we started Coastline FM \u2014 now called More FM. We had eight live announcers back then. Now there are none; everything comes out of Auckland.\u201d<\/p>\n
As job opportunities shrank and restructuring became the norm, Magee weathered eight takeovers before returning to 1XX in 1998.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhakat\u0101ne is such a great place to raise a family, and I really enjoyed coming back home.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to become a staple of the 1XX breakfast show, though he admits stepping back in recent times has had its benefits.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved the breakfast show, but moving to host the 10-2 show gave me work life balance. However, in the last few years it was beginning to feel like Groundhog Day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout his career, Magee valued the strong connections between radio, the community, businesses, and emergency services when shaping local stories. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s these attributes he now carries with him into a new career \u2014 real estate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve bought and sold rentals for years, so I\u2019ve always had an interest in property,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI spoke with (former Whakat\u0101ne mayor) Tony Bonne about a year ago, and he told me how much he loved his job. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat conversation planted the seed. I completed the real estate course \u2014 it was a bit of a mission \u2014 but it feels so refreshing to be doing something different.\u201d<\/p>\n
While the change is a challenge, he is embracing it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team here [at Ray White] is so supportive, with resources, seminars, and training sessions across branches. It\u2019s been inspirational.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That experience opened the door to his first part-time announcing job, and from there, Magee was hooked. \u201cI…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[29465,74,7793,2046,8486,11585,156,638,29467,5904,71,29464,3025,157,111,139,69,6662,4965,6115,4514,29466,5652,4497,61,2573,13745,2240,1533],"class_list":{"0":"post-30572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-1xx","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-bays","11":"tag-career","12":"tag-colin","13":"tag-eastern","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-estate","16":"tag-familiar","17":"tag-final","18":"tag-from","19":"tag-magee","20":"tag-most","21":"tag-music","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-off","26":"tag-radio","27":"tag-real","28":"tag-same","29":"tag-signoff","30":"tag-signs","31":"tag-start","32":"tag-to","33":"tag-voices","34":"tag-waves","35":"tag-whakatne","36":"tag-will"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}