I’m not sure this is the right place, anyone who listens to magic on rova having issues accessing the local streams?. I haven’t been able to access them for months, it’s stuck on the digital stream. I’m gonna call them about it tomorrow. I’ve tried both text and email with no reply 
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From the evidence, it seems that MediaWorks has replaced the local streams for each of its radio brands (such as The Edge, Mai, George FM, The Rock, The Sound and Magic) with a ‘digital stream’ that offers nationwide coverage, national advertising and national weather forecasts, resulting in the absence of regional variations. These digital streams are accessible online and on the rova app.
It is also noted that More FM and The Breeze’s local streams have been replaced by a single national stream when listening live online or on rova, i.e. a digital stream, so you may need to switch to FM radio and tune in to your local frequency for either More FM or The Breeze, although the information may be incorrect at the time of writing!
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On rova you used to be able to go to settings and manually enter your location ie Canterbury
Not a big issue for me
As most of the stations are network anyway
I know i heart seems to default to auckland regardless
From the evidence, it seems that MediaWorks has replaced the local streams for each of its radio brands (such as The Edge, Mai, George FM, The Rock, The Sound and Magic) with a ‘digital stream’ that offers nationwide coverage, national advertising and national weather forecasts, resulting in the absence of regional variations. These digital streams are accessible online and on the rova app.
I noticed this too when streaming Magic the other night - was expecting the traffic for Auckland but didn’t hear anything, just a generic self-promotional commercial.
Reached out to Mediaworks to ask what’s going on as I found the traffic update quite useful, but never heard anything back. This was streaming through TuneIn as I had been previously.
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Yeah they removed all local streams late last year - around October I think and replaced it with their ‘Digital Radio’ thing where it gives personalised ads. There isn’t even an option to select region on the stations website players anymore.
It was bloody annoying when I was living in Welly as my station of choice - George is only on LPFM there and there’s no traffic info on Rova.
I have done some investigating and found the streams for Auckland here:
Magic: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/magic-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
George: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/george-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
Mai: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/mai-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
More FM: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/more-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
The Breeze: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/breeze-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
The Sound: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/sound-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
The Edge: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/edge-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
channelX: https://digitalstreams4.mediaworks.nz/chx-AKL-high/playlist.m3u8
It doesn’t appear any other regions have a stream.
To play download VLC on your computer and phone and select “play network stream” and insert a URL.
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bro. I can’t believe mediaworks would actually pull something like this, no wonder their company is struggling.
Mediaworks has pulled out of the Triton Podcast Ranker and as a result Triton has decided to stop the ranker in New Zealand, as NZME was the only other company using it.
Disappointing move as now we can only rely on what the media companies tell us about their podcast ratings.
Not surprised since Mediaworks’ podcasts were ranking very poorly compared to NZME’s.
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That’s a shame. It was always interesting to see just how much in digital NZME dwarfs Mediaworks.
TBH, I wondered whether somehow Mediaworks inflated their numbers for the George FM podcasts. They seemed very high for two shows that are never in Spotify’s top 100.
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It’d be revenue driven the change, because I’d assume they can charge businesses for how much exposure to potential customers targeting to individuals rather than brands in certain markets.
The fact that they have been pushing people to use Rova to stream stations by claiming the HD quality over traditional broadcasts to entice people. Personally would’ve rather had digital radio in the form of DAB+ but it doesn’t make very much sense in this current economic climate. Also I’d wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to take their less popular stations off the dial and onto Rova only at some point in the future.
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Sin & Brook are quite popular in the international community - especially from what I’ve seen on their social media, which I think has to do with the inflated numbers for their podcast. Their ‘Does it double?’ segment always does well on socials
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This is where NZME is going to win against MW. MW is still too focused on its terrestrial listenership, which is still dominates. However, MW is so far behind NZME in digital/streaming/podcast numbers.
The alleged hacker claims to have data from 2.461 million NZ citizens. They claim to have, among other information, names, home addresses, mobile numbers, email addresses, dates of birth, home phone numbers, user postal codes, user genders, and user IDs.
They also claim to have private information, including some questionnaire answers, and people’s videos and music materials.
Among examples of the alleged data hacked is how people voted on The Block between 2017 and 2020. MediaWorks owned and operated the Three television brand before Discovery took ownership later in 2020.
MediaWorks owns and operates a suite of entertainment radio stations including More FM, The Rock, The Breeze, George FM, Mai, Magic and The Sound. It also runs an outdoor advertising arm.
The hacker is trying to sell the data.
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Bad news for an already struggling company.
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It’s really had the opposite effect for me, I’ve started listening to the NZME stations instead because some of their streams are still local. Also, the local streams were HD so I find it weird that they would take it off. IDK, maybe to cut costs.
Is bob still on magic afternoons or is a replacement pending
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More FM streams are still local
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More FM’s JJ Feeney on Instagram Live tonight announcing the end of her current relationship, poor lady.
Do the Mediaworks stations in Nelson and Blenheim (ex-Fifeshire and ex-Sounds) really have no local shows whatsoever now? Surprising as the top of the south used to be quite an active radio market - I actually worked at Sounds briefly, but that was years ago now. Sad to see, they were once great (and hugely popular) local stations.
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That’s right, but local Breeze Breakfast in Nelson
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