They have affiliation with BBC. Might as well just giving airtime over to the World Service.
More compelling than hours upon hours of “best-ofs”.
Meanwhile ZB… still live all day.
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She probably hasn’t fully immersed herself in the role yet but Pip Keane has a lot to prove as the chief AUDIO officer. Still stumped as to why she was hired when her CV boasts a list of cancelled TV shows. RNZ had an opportunity to hire a decent radio leader and instead they’ve put someone in there who is part of the problem.
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Wasn’t she Campbell’s producer on Checkpoint though?
Is it really that bad? Must confess I haven’t listened to the show but I do listen to Phil O’Brien sometimes and he’s okay (IMO).
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No, I enjoy it, but there’s plenty of people who either don’t, or pretend they don’t. It helps to have a diverse range in music taste.
I just tuned into Gold Sport on 1332AM hoping to hear a bit of rock and it’s all country music by the sounds of it - has the AM frequency been taken over by iHeart Country as well?? I don’t remember hearing or seeing anything about a format change.
I noticed that too. GOLD on iheart is playing classic rock though.
Also noticed HAURAKI has gone full on alternative rock again.
Ah well. I have no interest in either country music or sport, so time to delete that preset off my radio.
Interesting they’re still calling it Gold though - I thought they would have renamed it in lieu of it playing country music now (not classic rock anymore).
Sounds like Newstalk ZB have refreshed their news jingles/imaging this morning.
The change happened at midnight.
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NZME really want that country station to succeed. Not an ad break on an NZME station where they aren’t running promos for it, so unusual to promote a music station on another station, even if they are owned by the same company.
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The sound is 14 as,of new years day..
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Sample of the full package from today’s 12pm bulletin.
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The previous ZB news imaging (Jan 1 2021-Dec 31 2025)
Nice evolution I reckon.
I quite liked ZB’s imaging they were using in 2008 - does anyone have a copy of/link to this?
I don’t think many people listen to it on iHeart Radio.
Seriously? Even on, say, ZM? 
There’s a bit of it in here- I think they relaunched a few weeks after this.
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Thanks heaps OnAir - just after you posted that I found this too:
I personally can’t stand Bernadine Oliver Kerby but yep this is what I was thinking of 