Disgusting comments but as for NZC “reserves its right to review its relationship with Magic Talk”
Uhh this isn’t really an isolated incident, someone just happened to record a snippet of yesterday and upload online…
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How did the host react when the caller made the comment? I have no idea who Banks is btw. Has he made racist comments or was it just the caller?
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Former Auckland mayor and on-and-off broadcaster.
He endorsed the comments as it says in the article.
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Here is a link to the video
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Surely Mediaworks knew what they were getting when they got him to fill in. This is the same man who orchestrated a fellow MP to call in as maori man when he was on Radio Pacific.
To be honest though, the usual Peter Williams audience were probably in total agreement with the comments based on Peters leanings and the general direction Magic Talk has gone. Definitely not as balanced as Radio Live was.
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The Sound will be doing the Workday A to Z from Monday 8am (NZDT).
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“Mediaworks says Magic Talk will continue as NZ Cricket’s radio broadcast partner “over the remainder of the summer and beyond” following a meeting today to discuss the broadcaster’s response to a racist conversation that aired on Tuesday”
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Newstalk ZB Northland on 1026AM was dead air for most of the day.
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john banks should be made to issue an apology to nz cricket as well what was mediaworks thinking
in giving John banks any airspace at all given his past form
love the a-z
This is not too surprising - he loves the attention too much to just shut up when Banks was under fire. And there is the iwi checkpoint interview which the BSA upheld.
It’s a shame cause like Banks on a good day he does very interesting talkback
If Plunket is let go you’d have to think Peter Williams’ days are numbered…
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I just don’t know where Magic would go from here. They’ve tried to outflank ZB on the right and it’s got them in shit. Live didn’t work either.
Now they’ve lost their newsroom as well (sort of). Time to wave the white flag?
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Yeah me either. They already have the cricket… Magic Sport 24/7? But unlikely I know
Maybe they’ll bring in some left leaning hosts to add some balance as ZB has done…
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Does that mean Newstalk ZB will be the only commercial news talk network in New Zealand? And what about bringing back the Independent Radio News (IRN) brand which would be based in the Newstalk ZB/NZME newsroom?
Back in the old days, IRN was a news service that played on most independently owned and operated radio stations in New Zealand. The majority of New Zealand radio stations not owned by Radio New Zealand (RNZ) used this news and sport service usually followed by the station’s own local news and weather forecast.
In 1996 RNZ sold its commercial operation and The Radio Network (TRN) was formed, at the time TRN purchased IRN. TRN branded the news service on its own stations as Radio Network News while the news service continued to be called IRN on stations not owned by TRN despite the news coming from the same place. RNZ continued to operate its own news service on RNZ National and RNZ Concert, the two non-commercial stations that were not sold.
By 2000 a large number of independent radio stations had been taken over by RadioWorks, which did not want to pay for a news service operated by its main competitor and chose to start their own news service.
Possible. If the rumour mill is right though, they got cricket rights for free though (under a revenue sharing arrangement) but I can’t imagine too many sports rights organisations would be keen on that arrangement.
Possibly - then we are back to RadioLIVE territory though.
No chance, Paddy.
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@OnAir Oh. MediaWorks needs to have a dedicated radio newsroom.
I wonder if a rolling news station could work in New Zealand? Here in the UK, LBC London News was rebranded and relaunched as LBC News in October 2019. Since it’s relaunch, the station seems to have done quite well.
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Ahh ok that makes more sense why NZC were so quick to threaten to remove the rights.
Exactly… dull as dishwater. Maybe you’re right re Time to wave the white flag…
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Magic Talk host Sean Plunket has decided to leave MediaWorks.
MediaWorks CEO Cam Wallace says: “Sean has hosted Magic Talk afternoons over the past two years
and I would like to thank him for his significant contribution to the station.
“During his time with Magic Talk, Sean has engaged his audience with many vibrant discussions and I
wish him all the best for his future endeavours.”
An update on the afternoon show on Magic Talk will be made in due course.
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