Now Chan-Green has shared a tribute to the morning show,which she co-hosts with Lloyd Burr, a day before its broadcaster Newshub is set to close for good.
In 2022, Chan-Green joined the new-look AM, previously known as The AM Show, to present alongside Ryan Bridge. But that wasn’t her first stint on breakfast television.
Writing for Newshub’s website, Chan-Green has reminisced on her years doing the rounds on Three’s morning shows, from Sunrise, which launched in 2007, to Firstline from 2011 to 2015.
“I was hooked. Hooked on the adrenaline of breakfast telly,” she wrote, recalling a live cross from a London pub.
“I felt how important it was to feel part of a discussion, to feel connected with what’s happening in the world - and, more basically, just to start the day with a laugh,” she shared.
She went on to recall some of the highlights of her time with Newshub, for whom she also worked as a Europe correspondent.
Chan-Green waited with the media pack outside the hospital where Prince George was born, covered the aftermath of Nelson Mandela’s death, and was in Paris during the Bataclan theatre attacks, before passing the baton to Lisette Reymer.
Chan-Green concluded: “Thank you to everyone who has chosen AM - you’ve helped us close the ratings gap, kept up the commercial support and the messages of what AM means to our viewers have kept us going over the last six months.
“It made it feel like we were in this together, and I like to think that’s what morning telly on TV3 has done best all these years.”
Paul Henry joined AM hosts Lloyd Burr and Melissa Chan-Green ahead of their last episode on Friday, to discuss the end of the show.
