Interesting listening, thanks for this. The Hauraki one must be fairly new, have they finally retired their recycled ZM weather sting?
Also I vote The Breeze as having the worst news sting out of the lot, sounds like something from another era.
Haha the old ZM Newsbeat weather sting is still in use! (on Hauraki)
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I just found out last week that Coast introduced overnight news on Saturdays and Sundays.
Iâm quite bummed out about that as it means less music and more talk 
I like triple play weekends. Really enjoyed them when Magic used to run them in the long weekends about 6-7 years ago now.
I dont see the point of overnight news. Or even news on the radio at all. Surely there should be just bulletins at 6am, 12pm and 6pm, and if there is anything major there is a special news break. Thatâs the problem with radio, its still stuck in a world of 15-20 years ago.
The sound do the triple play weekend every weekend now it used to be maybe once a month or 6 weeks but is now a regular slot
AgreeâŚmost people get their news online so by the time its on the radio its old news anyway i notice gold dont do news after the breakfast show
Is there a sponsorâs ad before the news bulletins? Selling that space could be the reason why theyâve done it.
Overnight news might have a business case if itâs included in the stationâs news package, but apart from shift workers I agree - I donât imagine there are millions of people tuning in at 3 in the morning to catch the latest news.
An exception to the rule might be something like Radio New Zealand, especially in Civil Defence situations, etc.
Music stations carry it especially in breakfast as it does form a large part of what listeners tell them they want - even those listening to younger skewing music stations especially at breakfast. Plus it also points a marker to listeners (8am news is when I need to be out the door for work etc).
News and talk stations itâs fairly obvious why there is 24 hour news bulletins - but they have adapted over time. ZB until about 12 years ago had much longer bulletins (The 15-minute Report at 7am etc) - now itâs about six minutes or so.
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In the days before Newstalk ZB and Classic Hits (now The Hits), RNZâs Community Network had longer bulletins of news, sport, business and weather information like The World at Six (6am), The World at Seven (7am), The World at Noon and The World at Five (5pm).
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RNZ to shut down 1116 AM in Nelson.
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Pretty sure these were all on National Radio (I must admit I donât remember hearing any of them on 3ZB, 3ZE or Radio Caroline). But yes the RNZ commercial stations certainly had major news bulletins back in those days (though they didnât have special âtitlesâ).
The âworld at noonâ was still around in 2020 on RNZ National (albeit not daily), and much of the news, sport, business was incorporated into the Midday Report, eg:
RNZ news, followed by updates and
reports until 1.00pm, including:
12:16 Business News
12:26 Sport
12:34 Rural News
12:43 Worldwatch
Itâd be good to get some old Listener listings from the time, because if anything, Iâd suggest that RNZ commercial stations like Radio Caroline had more news with the advent of Newstalk.
ZB (Newstalk) definitely used The World At Six (AM) and The World at Ten (PM). Think they used The World At Five (PM) too but I canât be certain.
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Very odd - wouldnât you just rename the page?
The World at 7, midday and Five were extended bulletins which ran on Radio New Zealandâs commercial stations in the eighties and into the early nineties. I think the World at Noon was 15 minutes including sport and a business report.
The bulletins had dual readers including Raylene Ramsay, Murray Forgie, Simon Dickinson and Sue Forster.
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Cheers, good info. I wonder if both RNZ and ZB were using some of those same names after the mid-90s sell off
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I remember Simon Dickinson.
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