Agree…most 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 sponsor’s ad before the news bulletins? Selling that space could be the reason why they’ve done it.
Overnight news might have a business case if it’s included in the station’s news package, but apart from shift workers I agree - I don’t 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 it’s 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 it’s about six minutes or so.
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In the days before Newstalk ZB and Classic Hits (now The Hits), RNZ’s 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 don’t 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 didn’t have special ‘titles’).
The ‘world at noon’ 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
It’d be good to get some old Listener listings from the time, because if anything, I’d 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 can’t be certain.
After 54.4K followers on Edge Afternoons, they have launched a new page called Edge Arvos… thoughts?
Very odd - wouldn’t you just rename the page?
The World at 7, midday and Five were extended bulletins which ran on Radio New Zealand’s 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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Its a risk. But I can see why they’ve done it when several thousand followers would be from the Guy, Sharyn and Clint days 10 years ago who dont listen or engage with the show anymore.
They’ll have to work hard to get even half of that number back. I assume sales wouldn’t have been ecstactic about it
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End of an era for that one! I remember picking up 1116 (and 1341) in the evenings when I lived on the Coast. Is ZB still on 1341 in Nelson?
I am 100% sure that Radio Scenicland had The World At Noon as late as 1993. Can’t remember the other news shows though. I just remember the midday news seemingly taking forever - they would have Tradeline at 11:50, then one song, then about 20 minutes of talk: news, sports news, weather, marine weather and then (finally) a song! 
Speaking of The Listener - is this any help? (from May 1989 - apologies for the image quality):
Edit: uploaded better quality images and just for a comparison, added a list of frequencies from December 1993 - arguably during the “golden years” for NZ radio, IMHO.
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RadioLive also ran a ‘World At…’ format at those times before the Newshub era.
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…and that’s Radio New Zealand news, leading the news…
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What does this mean for Newstalk ZB on 1341AM and Gold Sport on 549AM?