Newstalk ZB Station of the Year, Between Two Beers Podcast of the Year at the 2026 NZ Radio & Podcast Awards

5 June 2026 The winners of the 2026 NZ Radio & Podcast Awards were announced on June 4 at a ceremony at the NZ International Convention Centre...

Newstalk ZB No 1, The Breeze top music station – New Zealand GfK Survey 1

24 May 2026 NZME's Newstalk ZB was again the top station in New Zealand in GfK Survey 1 2026, with a 14.4% audience share 10+ and cume...

Hear Yourself Think – No gimmicks in new Newstalk ZB campaign

4 May 2026 New Zealand's number one commercial radio station, Newstalk ZB, has launched a new brand campaign celebrating the broadcasters behind its loyal audience - putting...

Newstalk ZB No 1, The Breeze New Zealand’s top music station – GfK Survey 3

27 November 2025 The final GfK survey for 2025 has been released for New Zealand and NZME's Newstalk ZB remains no 1, for a 17th year. MediaWorks' The...

Newstalk ZB top, More FM the biggest gains – NZ GfK Survey 2

22 August 2025 New Zealand GfK Survey 2 is an extraordinarily consistent affair, showing not just the loyalty of listeners but the effectiveness of the survey tool in...

The news of radio’s death is greatly exaggerated

18 August 2025 An 11-page report released last week, commissioned by and for New Zealand public broadcaster RNZ had some damning statistics. National weekly cumulative listenership has fallen...

NZ Radio and Podcast Award winners – Heather du Plessis-Allan the Broadcaster of the Year

6 June 2025 The 2025 NZ Radio & Podcast Awards winners were announced last night at an awards ceremony at Sky City Theatre in Auckland hosted by Jeremy...

Newstalk ZB rules in NZ Survey 1 2025, budget cuts for RNZ

25 May 2025 The first survey of commercial radio stations in New Zealand was released on May 22 with Newstalk ZB No 1 and a weekly cumulative audience...

“What is so unique about public radio that it needs so much of our money?”

19 May 2025 "What is so unique about public radio that it needs so much of our money?" This was a question from top rating Newstalk ZB breakfast...

ABC’s Conversations atop Podtrac’s Australian Ranker

6 November 2024 Alongside the Triton Australian Podcast Ranker released each month, Radioinfo will now also include the monthly results for Australia and NZ from Podtrac. Launched back...

NZ Radio and Podcast Awards sees Newstalk ZB dominate

7 June 2024 June 6 was the 2024 NZ Radio and Podcast Awards. NZME's Newstalk ZB won Station of the Year for the fourth successive year, alongside being...

Newstalk ZB #1, NZ listening steady in GfK Survey 1

23 May 2024 New Zealand's first GfK Survey for 2024 has NZME's Newstalk ZB #1 for audiences aged 10+ for a sixteenth year, and 3.4 million people listening...

iHeartRadio launches bespoke playlists from your favourite artists and genres

25 September 2023 iHeartRadio has launched free curated Playlists from your favourite Australian, New Zealand and international music and radio stars through ARN and NZME. The iHeart app...

Newstalk ZB continues to dominate in the latest GfK Survey in New Zealand

1 December 2022 Newstalk ZB continues to grow its audience share and dominate the airwaves across the ditch. According to GfK Survey 4, Newstalk ZB, grew its overall share...

Newstalk ZB and Mike Hosking once again dominate NZ radio: GfK S4

25 November 2021 The New Zealand Commercial Radio Industry have just released the S4/21 GfK Audience data showing that almost 3.7 million listeners tune into radio every week,...

Is Jacinda Ardern running from Mike Hosking’s tough questions on COVID

30 August 2021 NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, is copping plenty of flack on Newstalk ZB for not appearing on Mike Hosking’s breakfast show as the COVID crisis...

Mike Hosking wins Broadcaster of the Year: NZ Radio Awards

10 June 2021 Newstalk ZB has won Station of the Year (Network) at the New Zealand Radio Awards announced today with Mike Hosking being awarded the Sir Paul...

2020 NZ Radio Awards winners announced

15 May 2020 The winners of the 2020 New Zealand Radio Awards have been announced today. Regretfully, due to COVID-19, the annual live event was unable to take place...

Mike Hosking is still the king of NZ breakfast radio: GFK survey

21 November 2019 NZME’s Newstalk ZB remains at the top of the ratings in the latest GFK Survey for New Zealand radio released today. Newstalk ZB and The Breeze...