Interesting RNZ taking over the former ‘Newshub Reid Research’ poll
1341 AM reactivated as Gold Sport 4-Apr and identifying as such. Don’t know transmitter location but not Stoke. Simulcasting on 549 AM. Website listing still to be updated.
Edit: 549 AM programme switched off and replaced with retune loop.
From what I understand The Hits is axing local day shows in Northland and Tauranga, opting for the network show instead (which comes from Wellington). That follows the axing of local shows in Queenstown and Manawatu last year.
The only local breakfast shows left are Hawke’s Bay and Dunedin, and local shows will only air in Auckland (but it comes from Wellington), Waikato, Rotorua, Taranaki, Wellington, Christchurch and Southland.
In comparison to More FM, which is local in Auckland, Central Otago, Canterbury, Coromandel, Gisborne, Manawatu, Northland, Rodney, Rotorua, Southland, Taranaki, Taupo, Waikato, Wairarapa and Whanganui.
I’m not sure when Tauranga’s most recent host left (Sam Western). Not sure she’s been on for a while.
Do you mean Jono and Ben? I thought they were based in Auckland?
I looked at The Hits’s website but couldn’t see any Wellington show listed there - who hosts that one?
Hayley Bath hosts the Auckland, Wellington and network day shows, from Wellington.
Jono, Ben and Megan host the network breakfast show - Adam and Megan (Hawke’s Bay) and Callum and P (Dunedin).
That’s a shame for Char, she was on the station since the Classic Hits days. Can’t be too many days that go by for those local announcers when they don’t think about job certainty.
Coromandel breakfast shift axed but day show remains, Waikato has reinstated a local day show, Rodney breakfast now a solo show again. Southland the only market left with local breakfast and days.
Sounds like cost cutting is behind axing of the local shows.
I imagine by year end everything will be 100% network
On both more and the hits
The transaction is expected to close in the June quarter, subject to customary regulatory approvals.
So do we expect to see wholesale changes to the content or will it remain business as usual
I’d imagine so, until the next round of cuts!
Hamish McKay (ex-Rural Exchange/RadioLive) filling in on Gold Sport Breakfast.
Has rick moran finished up on nzme saw a feed online said he is retiring?? He used to do all the traffic reports and was recently on GOld
Looks like they’ve cut back an announcer role - only two weekday shows on Gold now, Andrew Dickens and Tracey Donaldson. I remember Rick doing evenings but he’s not on the website anymore. Grant Kereama is on weekends, and (apart from a couple of specialist shows) that seems to be it?
I believe Rick may have been made redundant. Hearing there are other changes potentially coming.
A story in the Herald today about Pauline Gillespie and her life after radio (although I understand she was occasionally filling in on The Breeze Wellington recently):
Lots of radio news this week, in summary:
- Gold (FM) is moving to be all music with no hosts, a la Channel X
- Rick Morin has indeed been made redundant (sadly
) - Andrew Dickens returning to ZB, Tracey Donaldson filling in at Hauraki for a few weeks (she should have stayed at The Rock!)
- Gold (Sport) will stay as it is, I guess the non-sport timeslots will just be music
- Don Brash has bought some shares in NZME (oh yay
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She was axed/made redundant there though.
It
NZME picked her up m, initially for Mix (RIP) before she moved onto other brands.