NZME’s Newstalk ZB has been named Network Station of the Year for the sixth year in a row at the 2026 NZ Radio & Podcast Awards.
NZME’s Newstalk ZB has been named Network Station of the Year for the sixth year in a row at the 2026 NZ Radio & Podcast Awards.
RNZ has announced the five recipients of its Centenary Scholarships, which support future journalists in honing their craft.
Radio data shows that RNZ National grew its audience in 2025 across a number of key programmes, including Morning Report.
Journalist and presenter John Campbell will return to RNZ this year as the new co-host of Morning Report, alongside Ingrid Hipkiss.
RNZ has appointed Pip Keane as chief audio officer, a new role overseeing audio content and unifying its approach.
RNZ has appointed editorial leader Patrick Crewdson as its first director of AI strategy & implementation.
Radio New Zealand is asking for voluntary redundacies from its staff, following the funding cuts announced in the 2025 Budget. The annual budget, presented by finance…
RNZ, NZME, Newsroom and the Pacific Media Network are all celebrating success following the 2025 NZ Radio & Podcast Awards last night.
As RNZ celebrates its 100th birthday, it is looking back at how it connects New Zealanders through different moments in the country’s history.
Motuihe Group has launched a new six-part podcast for RNZ that uncovers the untold story of marine archaeologist Kelly Tarlton.
Tourism NZ’s new “Everyone must go!” campaign as been widely panned. Luckily, Academy Agency has suggested some improvements.
RNZ has appointed journalist and editor Andrew Holden to the role of Complaints Custodian where he will oversee the formal complaints system.
A new survey shows RNZ has achieved its audience goals three years early, with the results showing 80% of New Zealanders engage with its content a month.
Radio New Zealand’s radio results are out, and RNZ National has dropped into third place for its weekly cumulative audience behind The Edge and The Breeze.
Te Papa will mark its 20th anniversary this week with a collaboration with Radio New Zealand showcasing a collection of national treasures.
Industry happenings at 95bFM, MediaWorks, APN Outdoor, Radio New Zealand, Pead PR, Energi, Discovery Communications and NZME.
RNZ National has maintained its number two spot behind The Edge following, the release of the last radio survey of the year, which reveal a drop in its audience numbers.
RNZ is venturing back in time with an online project, by Great Southern TV and New Zealand On Air, offering historical accounts of the New Zealand Wars.
We’ve reached the end of our 2017 Hot List, signing off with our winner for Media Visionary of the Year: RNZ’s chief executive Paul Thompson
The suspense is over as we run down the results of our 2017 Hot List, and today, we celebrate the winners for Radio Brand and Show: Mai FM and ZM’s Fletch, Vaughan & Megan.
In the wake of last week’s commercial radio celebrations, Radio New Zealand has something to cheer about following the release of its survey results by GfK. RNZ National has maintained its spot at number two for audience reach against its commercial competitors and saw growth where other news stations saw a drop.
Industry happenings at NZME, Radio New Zealand, Colenso BBDO/Proximity, Principals, Track, Chemistry Interaction, ICG, News Works, The One Show and Orangebox.
For the first time (for the most part) in eight years, government-funded RNZ has invested in paid advertising in Auckland, collaborating with Rainger and Rolfe, as part of its goal to double its audience by 2020 and promote the ‘RNZ’ insignia.
Nielsen’s All National Radio survey showed that the weekly cumulative radio audience for RNZ National and Concert was 564,000 people aged 15 and over, a decent year-on-year lift when compared to the 503, 000 listeners recorded in the previous survey. We talk to Paul Thompson some of the moves that led to this uptick in weekly listener numbers.
Yesterday afternoon, RNZ head of Radio John Howson informed the department he leads that the state broadcaster has proposed disestablishing seven roles, including the one he holds.
Radio New Zealand has followed in the footsteps of the BBC, ABC and NPR by adopting the acronym RNZ. And while this is a relatively small change, the state broadcaster’s chief executive Paul Thompson says it’s reflective of the organisation’s reach beyond traditional channels into new digital mediums.
Since its inception in 2013, Radio New Zealand’s (RNZ) digital brand The Wireless has grown quickly, attracting a new audience of readers that were largely disconnected from the legacy structures of the state broadcaster. This upward trajectory has seen the website’s average audience climb from 700 daily users last year to 3,000 this year. And the RNZ executive team is now hoping to spread this success across all its digital properties with the appointment of The Wireless editor Marcus Stickley as the digital features editor. PLUS: digital teams restructure, a tale of two Tobys and a RNZ new website on the cards.
John Campbell is set to take up a position as the drivetime host on Radio New Zealand and it’s likely good news for the broadcaster’s growing digital audience as it plans to use Campbell to front a revamped show featuring streamed video and a podcast.
Industry happenings at Radio New Zealand, Icebreaker, Big Mobile, KOR Creative, Greater Group and Hypermedia.
Industry happenings at Radio New Zealand, Touchcast, Sugar&Partners, Uno Loco and The Breeze.