{"id":545994,"date":"2026-07-27T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545994\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T09:35:09","slug":"veteran-broadcaster-long-serving-councillor-jim-hopkins-dies-nz-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/545994\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran broadcaster, long-serving councillor Jim Hopkins dies &#8211; NZ Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiygFBVV95cUxNNGdSLU0wRFNNcHlsdU9YZjBCbUFwYmpQVk1sbWJvclgzS2pZX3dFUjBnd1RFbFoxaUU1RGRDUHJIMXA2dHoybDlIMDhfVUl5WElQRy1uRWlYRU5nOHFYd19pRVBLbUpDQy1CX1YzeGMtcDNnbUMyZTEtTGprb3A4UVNwZVhrMDVWaHdoVVNLOE95OHhvM3Z5eHMzMmRyQU5oMmNncVBuaVJ2aVNtdUhCQmMzRllqUjBkaTctYnJ1NVNzRmItemJUcDFR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veteran broadcaster, long-serving councillor Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ Herald<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxNbzFwbnBURF9KdWtFdklJQnZrcFRxS1pkRENzRWUxU1hudkQycWExbmNFdFBBTllCMUdxVXVtUldLTEVRV2hDMklBUHJfYzgzLVNWUFR1ekJJR1ZKeEFhRHRqLUZmT0lTT1V3ZC0telNBcW5QNGhnZjlxOVhfaFhNa3RBNm1STzI4UElxYVpfN3ZBdw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veteran broadcaster Jim Hopkins dies aged 80<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimwFBVV95cUxQZFhuZkg1dU5RbVMwVVdOeEh0U3lvRUhDNTF2Q2gwd0kzcXk5YnpucVVSME1qRmxrSDJES3lOYnM5MHZqY2QzRXp1QlpvZ0JIMDk1dkJqdGtNTHFCTGxPWmZQRlVDakFWV2M0aWZ1MXR4OHRRN2d4cFlxUmY2V0hUbGdkSWxjV2h0Z3JuRWZhZkFZZEp1dXhLMC1aaw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Veteran broadcaster and Waitaki councillor Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;1News<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimAFBVV95cUxNZXZpemFLMGlDblo2a3FhYU1qNUNoSHBnYkhubGRPbnB3WDhkX1dfajZKdlIyWFVsWG1kMmVWQW43VWdfZ25idk5mUlBsLXFsb3BzOXhsOEo5b3dzWmxiNlFLTWxpOUhDaFFDN0xKMGRYX0d1ZVQxRHhfNzdocDhEd3Q1NzBaLVQ1WXpLdFhrb0JMa0xiQWI1Uw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Broadcaster and Waitaki councillor Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Stuff<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirAFBVV95cUxNazBWd0xrand4clMxOWZZdG1XR0tDdVROQlRHVlVHSW9JZGtFRU0tbWxqblY5ZktXUU1PRFFMV253b1ZiUWpKWkpFOTZEc1JXU2U5RHBBZ29jdmNLTzV1S09malhyR21md1NFWEZURmI0NTR5akpfM09laF9nYnR6a2FCcUhVdTFQQUNjYnlNUmVLejJpdHR5M2RURXdudmdqNXgwM24zbkNTUlJh?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Waitaki councillor and former TV presenter Jim Hopkins dies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;ODT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran broadcaster, long-serving councillor Jim Hopkins dies&nbsp;&nbsp;NZ HeraldVeteran broadcaster Jim Hopkins dies aged 80&nbsp;&nbsp;RNZVeteran broadcaster and Waitaki councillor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[95,13851,9516,38290,6179,7126,7557,42,85959,16081,7570,43,49510,32325,40,38,41,39,9347,164281],"class_list":["post-545994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-and","tag-author","tag-broadcaster","tag-councillor","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-district","tag-headlines","tag-hopkins","tag-jim","tag-longserving","tag-news","tag-orator","tag-renowned","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-veteran","tag-waitaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545994","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=545994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}