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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...

74% of New Zealanders listen to radio daily, Newstalk ZB on top: GfK Survey 3, 2023

28 November 2023 New Zealand's GfK Survey 3, 2023 has been released with positive statistics for radio with 74% of the population 10+ listening daily and NZME's Newstalk...

Newstalk ZB tops NZ GfK Survey 2, Breeze and Mai FM close the gap

24 August 2023 NZME’s Newstalk ZB (down 1.2 to 16.0 for all audiences 10+) remains No 1 in GfK Survey 2 of New Zealand’s commercial radio stations, with...

Phil Quinney honoured at New Zealand Radio Awards

15 June 2023 Prior to the 2023 New Zealand Radio Awards, Taranaki sports broadcaster Phil Quinney’s boss checked in to see if he was attending. Quinney replied yes...

Newstalk ZB dominates New Zealand GfK radio ratings

28 May 2023 GfK’s New Zealand commercial radio survey, its first of 2023, has Newstalk ZB dominating the 13 markets surveyed. This is the 15th consecutive year that...

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...

Return dates of Newstalk ZB’s husband and wife duo

8 April 2022 Newstalk ZB husband and wife duo Heather du Plessis-Allan and Barry Soper have today confirmed their plans at the radio network, following the birth of their son Iggy in February. From Tuesday 26...

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,...

Andrew Dickens to host Newstalk ZB Drive show and Grant Kereama returns to Breakfast Radio on GOLD FM

22 November 2021 Andrew Dickens is stepping in to host the NZME Newstalk ZB Drive Show while host Heather du Plessis-Allan takes maternity leave in the early part...

NZME powers up vaccine roll-out with company-wide campaign

21 September 2021 New Zealand Media and Entertainment has launched a company-wide multi-platform campaign across all its media brands to promote the Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out. NZME Chief Executive,...

Moves at Magic Talk and MediaWorks NZ

6 September 2021 Dallas Gurney has been appointed as Director of News and Talk for NZ’s MediaWorks. The former editor-in-chief of Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport has most...

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...

John MacDonald is to host the Newstalk ZB Canterbury Mornings show.

8 August 2021 MacDonald has a long association with broadcasting having spent time on-air with New Zealand’s major news and talk radio brands Newstalk ZB and Radio New...

Newstalk ZB is still tops in New Zealand: GFK Survey 2

15 July 2021 Newstalk ZB continues to lead the Total New Zealand GfK Survey, up 0.3 for 12.6 overall. MediaWorks Breeze also make a small gain of 0.1...

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...

Mike Hosking and Newstalk ZB are still on top in NZ: GfK Survey 3

14 October 2020 GfK has released the latest NZ Radio Survey results that show little change in stations shares, even though stations like Newstalk ZB increased their cumes...

Big changes announced at NZME

13 February 2020 From April, Jono Pryor and Ben Boyce will host The Hits Breakfast, with current hosts Toni Street and Sam Wallace moving to Coast and a...

Newstalk ZB loses audience but still leads in NZ: GFK Survey 3

12 September 2019 Newstalk ZB has maintained its lead nationally in New Zealand in the latest GFK survey figures out today, despite easing 1.4 to 11.0. Newstalk ZB still...

NZ breakfast announcer to trade mornings and music in 2019

3 July 2017 Simon Barnett has announced he will be retiring from breakfast and music radio at the end of next year. Simon has been with MORE FM...

Talkback show from the year 1 BC wins NY Festival Radio Award

26 June 2014 A small New Zealand not-for-profit radio production trust has won four prestigious New York Festival Radio awards, including Best Talk/Interview Special, for its innovative Christmas...