RNZ goes live with new Pacific shortwave transmitter

2 August 2024 RNZ went live on Thursday with its new Pacific shortwave transmitter, replacing its old one that dates to 1989. Pacific high commissioners and Foreign Affairs...

RNZ and Sāmoa Capital Radio work together to support Sāmoan language

30 July 2024 RNZ and Sāmoa Capital Radio have signed a new partnership agreement to formalise the sharing of news stories and digital and social media knowledge between...

Jamie Mackay to celebrate 30 years of The Country with two live broadcasts

11 April 2024 A major milestone in New Zealand's broadcasting history will be celebrated on April 12, 2024 when NZME's flagship rural radio show The Country with Jamie...

Record growth in May pushes NZ ad demand above pre-covid levels

1 July 2021 NEW Zealand’s media agency market has returned to its levels of pre-COVID ad spend in May following a record 67.4% increase in year-on-year ad spend,...

First 2021 survey results for NZ

30 April 2021 The first survey results this year for New Zealand have been released. The radio audience data reveals that over 3.7 million New Zealanders listen...

Anything to do with home, health and wellbeing has had huge increases: #RadiodaysAsia

24 March 2021 In one of the first sessions of today’s Radiodays Asia virtual conference, Ezra Zaid hosted a panel of speakers who gave an overview of how...

Stay in touch with your audience every day: Ryan Rathbone #RadioAsia2019

30 October 2019 Ryan Rathbone, National Content Director of MediaWorks NZ’s Edge network gave tips on how to get great the best results for your radio station through...

GatesAir transitions MediaWorks NZ to uncompressed audio over IP networking

29 August 2019 GatesAir has transitioned long-time customer MediaWorks to an uncompressed Audio over IP networking architecture. The new transport solution keeps all signals in the digital domain...

Radio Hauraki is not talking about men’s mental health

12 July 2019 New Zealand's Radio Hauraki has taken up a Triple M initiative to help men talk about suicide. On Friday August 9th, the station will run...

Magic Talk NZ details revealed

29 November 2018 MediaWorks has revealed the look of its new Magic Talk station, and announced that Peter Williams is return to radio on the newly formatted station. The...

New Zealand radio survey 4: Newstalk ZB remains top

29 November 2018 Results from the fourth and final ratings survey for 2018 have been released for New Zealand. Newstalk ZB retained top spot nationally, despite a slight...

NewstalkZB tops New Zealand radio survey 2

5 July 2018 NewstalkZB has scored top postiion in the second New Zealand radio ratings survey, reelased today. NewstalkZB scored 10.9%, followed by More FM in second place...

The Edge Network tops NZ Radio Survey 4 2017

9 December 2017 The Edge network had the biggest weekly commercial cumulative reach in New Zealand national survey 4, with 613,100 weekly listeners. The Breeze Network was...

‘An exciting year ahead’ for MediaWorks NZ

7 December 2017 “2018 is set to be an exciting year for MediaWorks radio,” according to Leon Wratt, Group Content Director - Music at MediaWorks Radio. “From January...

NZ commercial radio audiences thriving: Survey 3

28 September 2017 The results of 2017's third New Zealand Commercial Radio Audience Measurement survey are in, and 3.36 million people, more than 80% of New Zealanders aged 10+, listen...

Omny Studio partners with Placard Media to fuel podcast advertising

7 September 2017 Placard Media, a boutique advertising agency focussed on the growing podcast market, today announced a partnership with podcast host Omny Studio, to pair Australian and New...

The Edge is top commercial network in NZ Radio Survey 2

21 July 2016 Results for the second New Zealand survey of 2016 have been released for the Major Markets, as well as Auckland and Wellington. Population data indicates...

NZ Radio Survey results

2 October 2015 Results of the Auckland 2015 Commercial Radio Audience Measurement Survey conducted by TNS New Zealand was released today at 1pm. Department of Statistics Estimated Population data...

iHeartRadio New Zealand Launches NBR Radio Station

4 September 2015 iHeartRadio New Zealand has announced it is partnering with the National Business Review (NBR) to add NBR Radio to the platform to continue to grow...

First NZ survey cancelled

14 January 2015 The first survey in New Zealand has been cancelled by the Radio Broadcasters Association, as they browse the market for other providers that will bring...

Mediaworks restructure merges newsrooms and makes digital more central

10 December 2014 New Zealand’s MediaWorks has announced a new organisational structure in the News and Digital areas, aimed at “growing a thriving, integrated media business.” MediaWorks owns...

New brand identity for APN New Zealand’s radio, online and print media

25 September 2014 The Radio Network (TRN) and APN's other media properties in New Zealand have rebranded, and will now be known as New Zealand Media & Entertainment...