Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. They may feature monologues , dialogues between the hosts, interviews with guests, and/or listener participation which may be live conversations between the host and listeners who "call in" (usually via telephone ) or via voice mail . Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producers to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, to attract advertisers.
94-591: Newstalk ZB is a nationwide New Zealand talk-radio network operated by NZME Radio . It is available in almost every radio market area in New Zealand, and has news reporters based in many of them. In addition to talkback, the network also broadcasts news , interviews , music, and sports . The network's hosts include Kate Hawkesby , Mike Hosking , Kerre Woodham , Simon Barnett , James Daniels, Heather du Plessis-Allan, Marcus Lush , Andrew Dickens, Jack Tame and Francesca Rudkin. Wellington and Christchurch have
188-677: A 17-year license for its 100.1 FM Christchurch frequency. Following the Christchurch earthquake on 4 September 2010 and the major aftershock on 22 February 2011 programming in Christchurch was greatly affected. After both earthquakes the station broadcast in place of other radio stations in Christchurch operated by The Radio Network, the local studios located in Worcester Street in Christchurch were evacuated. Local news services in Christchurch were replaced temporarily with
282-986: A 24-hour schedule of news, interviews, discussion, and debate and is a World Media Partner with BBC World Service and is affiliated to IRN / SKY News . Talk Radio Europe broadcasts in FM on the Costa del Sol , Costa Almeria , Costa Blanca , and across the island of Mallorca in English. It is available on the Internet and all smartphone platforms. Talk radio in the United Kingdom is popular, though not as much as music radio. Nationwide talk stations include BBC Radio 4 , BBC Radio 5 Live , BBC Radio 4 Extra , Talkradio , Talksport and Times Radio . Regional stations include BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales . Many BBC Local Radio stations and some commercial stations offer
376-600: A big Metromedia presence in Los Angeles. He sent Henry from New York to Los Angeles to turn KLAC into a success. The first thing that Henry did was hire the legendary morning team of Lohman and Barkley. Henry had built a strong relationship with programmer Jim Lightfoot, who had joined Henry in Miami. A unique opportunity presented itself when Joe Pyne, who had begun his career as a radio talk personality in Pennsylvania,
470-754: A financial news station, and Asian Radio Live. Talk radio expanded dramatically when the BBC's monopoly on radio broadcasting was ended in the 1970s with the launch of Independent Local Radio . Some notable British talk radio presenters include Jenni Murray , John Humphrys , Martha Kearney , Jonathan Dimbleby , Libby Purves , Laurie Taylor , Pam Ayres , Melvyn Bragg , Tommy Boyd , James Whale , Steve Allen , Nick Abbot , Iain Lee , James Stannage , George Galloway , Julia Hartley-Brewer , Ian Collins , John Nicoll, Brian Hayes , Scottie McClue , James O'Brien , Nicky Campbell , and Simon Mayo . Pete Price on CityTalk
564-530: A full schedule of talk. In the 1970s and early 1980s, as many listeners abandoned AM music formats for the high fidelity sound of FM radio , the talk radio format began to catch on in more large cities. Former music stations such as KLIF ( Dallas , Texas ), WLW ( Cincinnati, Ohio ), WHAS ( Louisville, Kentucky ), WHAM ( Rochester, New York ), WLS ( Chicago, Illinois ), KFI ( Los Angeles , California ), WRKO ( Boston , Massachusetts ), WKBW ( Buffalo, New York ), and WABC ( New York, New York ) made
658-815: A group of stations with common ownership, although some are formed to distribute their one or two talk radio programs to several stations regardless of ownership. The largest of these is the Corus Radio Network. TSN Radio , the successor to the long-defunct the Team , is one of the newest national networks in Canada, with operations in several major markets. Syndicated programs from the United States which air on Canadian radio stations are typically non-political shows such as The Kim Komando Show and Coast to Coast AM , as well as sports radio shows from
752-466: A hotel in Christchurch. The Radio Network Christchurch never returned to their Worcester Street premises and eventually set up in a new location. The building was taken down in August 2012, in New Zealand's first ever controlled building demolition with explosives . The TNS T2 2013 commercial radio survey showed the network had 11.4% of audiences aged over 10, and had the most listened-to breakfast show in
846-620: A local morning show. Newstalk ZB operates one of the largest news operations in New Zealand, with over 50 newsreaders, reporters and editors nationwide. It operates a news centre in Auckland , news hubs in Wellington, Christchurch and Parliament , and regional newsrooms in Whangārei , Hamilton , Tauranga , Rotorua , Taupō , New Plymouth , Napier , Palmerston North , Nelson , Dunedin and Invercargill . Most of Newstalk ZB's programming
940-501: A male demographic between the ages of 18 and 49. It generally consists of pop culture subjects on FM radio rather than the political talk found on AM radio. Hosts of hot talk shows are usually known as shock jocks . ZM (New Zealand) ZM ( / ˈ z ɛ d ɛ m / ZED -em ) is a New Zealand contemporary hit radio network owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment . It broadcasts 19 markets throughout mainland New Zealand via terrestrial FM , and worldwide via
1034-495: A news service operated by its main competitor and chose to start their own news service. After CanWest purchased RadioWorks the news service became known as the Global News Service (Global is the same name as Television network in Canada operated by CanWest), and in early 2005 it was again renamed to Radio Live News. Similarly, IRN News later became Newstalk ZB News. Since 2016 a single news bulletin sourced from
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#17327941450031128-435: A news service played on most independently owned and operated radio stations in New Zealand during the 1980s and 1990s. 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
1222-448: A record number of complaints about the issue, a record later broken by a racially polarising and profanity-laden letter written by Hone Harawira . The comment also set a precedent, when former All Black Andy Haden faced calls to resign as a 2011 Rugby World Cup ambassador, after apologising for describing Pacific Island rugby players as "darkies". Prime minister John Key and sports minister Murray McCully said both Haden and Holmes used
1316-535: A single continuous bulletin, new theme music and "Now You're in the Now" tagline. The news service covers stories, from industrial relations to prisoner rehabilitation. It extensively covers crime and court proceedings, but was criticised for publishing a wire story about the verdict against lawyer Davina Murray in 2013. Network weekday newsreaders include Niva Retimanu (Breakfast) and Kay Gregory (Evenings/Overnights). Newstalk ZB News began as Independent Radio News (IRN),
1410-455: A staple of radio since the medium's infancy. Aimee Semple McPherson began her radio broadcasts in the early 1920s and even purchased her station, KFSG which went on the air in February 1924; by the mid-1930s, controversial radio priest Father Charles Coughlin 's radio broadcasts were reaching millions per week. There was also a national current events forum called America's Town Meeting of
1504-602: A state housing beneficiary, a security guard, a Timaru pensioner, a West Coast grandmother, a dairy farmer, a Dutch butcher and several taxi drivers. In late September 2023, NZME launched a paid digital subscription platform called ZB PLUS . Blogger Phillip Crump (who is also known by the pseudonym "Thomas Cramner") was named as the editor of ZB Plus. Notable contributors included former ACT Party MP Muriel Newman , former National Party minister Katherine Rich , NZME head of business Fran O'Sullivan and former businessman and podcaster Bruce Cotterill. Its most notable exclusive story
1598-591: A talk format, for example, BBC Radio London , the BBC's flagship local station. Other notable commercial talk stations include London's LBC which pioneered the newstalk format in Europe . LBC currently operates two services – LBC , a newstalk station on FM (London) and via several digital platforms nationally including DAB and Freeview ; and LBC News , a rolling news station on AM in London and DAB+ nationally. There are many specialised talk services such as Bloomberg ,
1692-504: A talk format. Other stations such as Radio New Zealand National have a large component of talk-based content but do not have talk-back (i.e. listener phone-ins). Newstalk ZB is the New Zealand market leader, but Radio Live is continuing to try to establish itself with a greater presence in the talk radio market since its inception in 2005. Almost all AM radio stations are talk stations. A few stations from Radio Mindanao Network and Bombo Radyo are on FM. Radyo 5 News FM (now True FM)
1786-550: A variety of services to host an Internet-based talk-radio show without carriage by a traditional radio station. Also, TV programming from talk and news outlets such as BBC , CNN , Bloomberg , and Fox is now often available expanding the world of talk radio further. Talk radio listening is enjoyed not only on radios but a wide variety of other devices and services including PCs using iTunes, station directories such as TuneIn, show directory smartphones with apps such as Stitcher, and time-shifting services like DAR.fm. SW Radio Africa
1880-438: A way to bring his political views into listeners' homes. (He later became Mayor of Galveston ). Cherry gives no specific date, but the context of events and history of the station would seem to place it also in the 1940s, perhaps earlier. The format was the classic mode in which the announcer gave the topic for that day, and listeners called in to debate the issue. In 1948, Alan Courtney – New York disk jockey and co-composer of
1974-548: Is a large market – due to the Japanese FM band spanning 76–90 MHz instead of the standard 88–108 MHz band. Host Rachel Smalley apologised in April 2014 after describing New Zealand women over 72 kilograms as "heifers" and a "bunch of lardos" during an ad break when she believed her microphone was off. The comments were reported and criticised in several local and international media outlets, including news.com.au and
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#17327941450032068-614: Is also known as the DJ who rushed to the aid of a regular caller who died live on air during a call. Previously, he had kept a teenager talking for 45 minutes before meeting him to convince him not to commit suicide. Talk radio is most popular on the AM band . "Non-commercial", usually referred to as " public radio ", which is mainly located in a reserved spectrum of the FM band , also broadcasts talk programs. Commercial all-talk stations can also be found on
2162-456: Is derived from the former callsigns of the stations: 1ZM, 2ZM and 3ZM. The stations were carved off to The Radio Network (now merged into New Zealand Media and Entertainment) in 1996, and ZM spread across the country, originally as three separate networks before finally merging to form one nationwide network in 2000. The network's head office and main studios are based in Auckland, where all of
2256-441: Is mainly dedicated to literature, the arts, classical music, and general cultural issues. Several regional stations use a format combining that of all-news and talk radio. In New Zealand , the talk radio format is popularly known as talkback radio. The major radio networks broadcasting in the talk radio format are Newstalk ZB and Radio Live . Their sports sister networks, Radio Sport and TAB Trackside also largely broadcast in
2350-571: Is no Canadian content requirement for talk radio, or "spoken word", programming unless the individual station's license expressly stipulates such a requirement; most do not. (In Canada, prospective radio stations may propose certain restrictions on their license to gain favor with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and have an easier time obtaining a license.) The most recent nationally syndicated, politically oriented weekday talk radio show in Canada
2444-805: Is now a music station. A group of English expats set up OCI International in the early 1990s. Based in Marbella on the Costa del Sol, it was owned by the ONCE National Spanish Network. It provided a link for the English-speaking expats living on the coast, as well as some content for Scandinavian expats. OCI was closed down in 2007 to make way for Radio Europa music. In 2004 REM FM began broadcasting, with shows mostly fronted by former OCI presenters. The station closed in 2008. In 2008, Talk Radio Europe began broadcasting. It offers
2538-465: Is owned by Radio Wnet sp. z o.o., a Polish media company. Its programmes are broadcast in two large cities including Warsaw (87.8 MHz), Kraków (95,2 MHz). The programme is available via Internet. It was founded on 25 May 2009 by Krzysztof Skowroński , Grzegorz Wasowski , Katarzyna Adamiak-Sroczyńska and Monika Makowska-Wasowska , Wojciech Cejrowski and Jerzy Jachowicz . Talk radio in Spain
2632-500: Is popular. Radio 24 , part of the group Il Sole 24 Ore privately owned by Confindustria , is the most important commercial "news/talk" talk radio station in the country. Its focus is mainly on independent news about the Italian and European economy, finance, culture, and politics, but it also hosts programs focusing on sports, personal finance, music, health, science, technology, and crowdsourced storytelling. State-owned Rai Radio 3
2726-523: Is produced in the NZME building in Auckland. The history of Newstalk ZB dates back to 1926 when Auckland station 1ZB was first started initially broadcasting on 1070AM, the station moved to 1090 kHz in 1931, 1190 kHz in 1933 and 1080 kHz in 1978. The station's brand name was the station's call sign 1ZB. A ZB station was established in the four main centres of New Zealand as 1ZB Auckland, 2ZB Wellington, 3ZB Christchurch and 4ZB Dunedin. Up until 1987
2820-408: Is stenciled on the top of the piece, which is now one of his signature works. Holmes was apologetic and regretful about using the phrase, but later argued there was a fine line between humour and offense. The phrase featured on a commemorative tea towel, and fellow broadcaster John Hawkesby remembered Holmes as a "cheeky little whitey" at his funeral in 2013. Holmes left his morning breakfast show at
2914-461: Is strong competition since it is also a very important time slot, when typically people going to the workplace listen to the radio in their cars early in the morning (around 7 am to 8 am). As Spain has large English-speaking communities from many different countries, it is a natural place for English language talk radio broadcasting. The first Talk radio station in English was Coastline Radio broadcasting from Nerja , Costa del Sol . It
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3008-741: Is the Gascony Show . Launched in early 2011, this show is broadcast weekly to the Gascony region of the southwest of France, as well as to the rest of France via Internet streaming. Radio talk shows are popular in Germany and have a long tradition. The first talk show on public radio was Werner Höfer 's Der Internationale Frühschoppen [ de ] , a political talk begun in 1952. The talk show on wheels Hallo Ü-Wagen ran from 1974 to 2010, begun by Carmen Thomas for WDR . Talk radio in Italy
3102-642: Is the first talk radio station in the Philippines. There is two talk radio station in Poland, called TOK FM , which is owned by Agora SA , a Polish media company. Its programmes are broadcast in 10 large cities including Warsaw , Kraków , Gdańsk , Poznań , and Katowice . The programme is also available via the Internet and transmitted by the Hot Bird constellation . It was founded in 1998 as "Inforadio" Second talk radio station called Radio Wnet , which
3196-419: Is very popular, where the most important radio stations are exclusively dedicated to talk shows, such as Cadena Ser, Cadena Cope, Onda Cero, Radio Nacional, or Punto Radio. There is a very wide variety of topics, such as politics, sport, comedy, and culture. Sport talk shows are particularly relevant, since football attracts a massive interest in Spain, with a special focus on FC Barcelona and Real Madrid CF, and
3290-512: The Daily Mail . In a tearful apology the following morning, she described her comments as deeply offensive, stupid and judgemental and said she deeply regretted her choice of words. The Broadcasting Standards Authority rejected complaints against the comments, saying they were neither calculated nor deliberate. Blogger Cameron Slater was a regular commentator on the drive programme for several years, and has been both critical and supportive of
3384-416: The iHeartRadio website and app. In August 2024, The New Zealand Herald reported that Newstalk ZB's breakfast show's cumulative audience had increased from under 400,000 in early 2020 to 445,300 in 2024. Newstalk ZB had 277,900 listeners in Auckland, doubling public competitor Radio New Zealand 's Morning Report's in that city. The Herald attributed the radio station's competitive edge over Radio NZ to
3478-637: The 24-hour networks in the U.S. Traditionally, politically driven talk radio from the United States does not air on Canadian stations, with a few scattered exceptions (e.g. the now-defunct CFBN , which carried political programming such as the Glenn Beck Program and Dennis Miller , and the also-discontinued talk format of CHAM , which carried Miller). Top political programs such as The Rush Limbaugh Show are never broadcast on Canadian stations, mainly due to high rights fees compared to their relevance to non-American audiences. American stations near
3572-765: The AM frequency while continuing to play music on the FM frequency. In 1993 and 1994 the local Radio New Zealand station in some regions were rebranded with the Classic Hits name and the AM frequency was used to roll out the station across New Zealand, it was at this point Newstalk 1ZB was rebranded as Newstalk ZB. Initially those regions that ran local talkback shows on the AM frequency continued to do so and Wellington and Christchurch were initially local versions of Newstalk ZB. In 1996 Radio New Zealand sold their commercial operation and Newstalk ZB, along with Classic Hits and ZM , became part of The Radio Network . In 2001 Newstalk ZB
3666-463: The Air which broadcast once a week starting in 1935. It featured panel discussions from some of the biggest newsmakers and was among the first shows to allow audience participation: members of the studio audience could question the guests or even heckle them. Talk radio as a listener-participation format has existed since the 1930s. John J. Anthony (1902–1970) was an announcer and DJ on New York's WMRJ. It
3760-543: The Canadian border can provide many Canadians with access to American talk programs (the signals of Limbaugh affiliates WJR , WBEN , and WHAM , for example, cover almost all of Southern Ontario ). Local talk radio plays a significant role in the politics of Newfoundland and Labrador. Political parties have systematically coordinated call-ins by Members of the House of Assembly when public opinion pollsters are known to be in
3854-620: The FM band in many cities across the US. These shows often rely less on political discussion and analysis than their AM counterparts and often employ the use of pranks and "bits" for entertainment purposes. In the United States and Canada , satellite radio services offer uncensored "free-wheeling" original programming. ABC News & Talk is an example of "repackaging" for the digital airwaves shows featured on their terrestrial radio stations. Expressing and debating political opinions has been
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3948-452: The Internet. The network targets the 15–39 demographic specialises in a chart-music playlist of pop , rock , hip hop and dance music. It reaches approximately 486,800 listeners weekly, making it the fifth largest commercial radio station in New Zealand. The ZM network as it is today was founded in the early 1970s as three separate commercial music stations owned by Radio New Zealand in Auckland , Wellington and Christchurch . The name
4042-532: The NZME newsroom is heard on every NZME radio station (apart from Newstalk ZB) during breakfast and other parts of the day. The Newstalk ZB Affiliates Unit is based in the Auckland newsroom, and records a variety of hourly bulletins for other stations of NZME Radio and sells its bulletins to a number of external clients including Radio 1XX – One Double-X in Whakatane and the Eastern Bay of Plenty. These are
4136-567: The New Zealand Ghanaian community. The incident also affected his television show, which lost the sponsorship of Mitsubishi Motors . The Radio Network took disciplinary action against him, put their staff through a training seminar on racism run by race relations commissioner Joris de Bres, and a $ 10,000 donation was made to Save the Children . The Broadcasting Standards Authority refused to uphold 10 complaints against Holmes for
4230-678: The Newsfeed updates. Individual weather reports are pre-recorded for each region and updated with each show. When the Morning Crew were based in Wellington, they read out the Wellington weather live during the breakfast show, while the pre-recorded reports by the newsreader air over the rest of the network. Former Newsbeat and Newsfeed presenters include Glen Stuart, Bridget Hastie, Debbie Griffiths, Dan Bernstone, Ash Thomas, Adam Cooper, Paul Stenhouse, Jacob Brown, Rachel Jackson-Lees, Lee Plummer and Sam Worthington. ZM and ZM announcers have won
4324-502: The United States. In an odd turn of events, Pyne's radio show led him to television. Henry suggested to John Kluge that Joe Pyne should be put on Metromedia's newly acquired TV station in Los Angeles, KTTV-TV. Kluge told Henry to speak to KTTV-TV general manager Al Kriven, but Henry had already done that, and Kriven had adamantly refused. Kluge telephoned Kriven, and Pyne soon became the nation's first controversial late-night talk television host. The Joe Pyne Show on KTTV-TV quickly shot to
4418-706: The ZM iPhone and android apps). At the moment through every second commercial break the station plays a song. Like most radio stations in New Zealand ZM originally featured news on the hour every hour originally news was provided by the Radio New Zealand News Service, following the sale of the Radio New Zealand commercial service this became The Radio Network News Service. In 1997 ZM stations began reducing news breaks to only play on
4512-488: The breakfast show, Auckland has live local bulletins at 7.00am and 8.00am, and other stations carry network bulletins every half-hour from 5am to 12am and hourly from 12am to 5am. Regional newsrooms previously provided each station with local news segments during the breakfast show. Newstalk ZB's pip sting, headlines segmented bulletin structure and "Keep up with Newstalk ZB" tagline were removed in December 2014, replaced with
4606-704: The breakfast show, this was at time when some radio stations began increasing the amount of music played in an hour and reducing talk. In 2000 ZM started their own news service called ZM Newsbeat . The Newsfeed service (formerly called Newsbeat) has news reports read out and local weather updated from the Auckland studio for each individual region. The bulletins are sourced from the NZME newsroom (Newstalk ZB & NZ Herald), and air hourly during weekdays between 6am-9am inclusive with newsreader Brin Rudkin, who also presents Newsfeed updates on The Hits, Radio Hauraki, Coast and Flava. An exclusive Wellington edition of ZM Newsbeat
4700-530: The cable news televisions in the United States, with live and "saturated" coverage of political issues. The most important talk radios in Brazil are CBN , Band News and Jovem Pan , which has also sports and news broadcasts. In contrast to talk radio stations in the United States, where syndicated programs tend to make up a significant part of most schedules, privately owned Canadian talk radio stations tend to be predominantly local in programming and focus. There
4794-502: The complaint, leading one complainant to appeal the decision in the High Court . On the same breakfast show Holmes asked whether the female journalists were making journalism "ignorant and bitchy", particularly at certain times of the month. The authority found the comments were "insulting and inappropriate" but did not amount to denigrating and discriminating against women journalists. Race relations commissioner Joris de Bres received
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#17327941450034888-415: The country. It came as Rachel Smalley became host of the newly created Early Edition programme. The same survey in 2014 showed Newstalk ZB lost 0.3% market share but gained 7,600 listeners during a time when other NZME radio stations were in decline. It has also been observed that ZB and Mai FM are the only stations that can be received by car radios in used imported cars from Japan — of which New Zealand
4982-643: The day and weekend on Newstalk ZB. Newstalk ZB runs regular promotions for movie previews and local events. The network has sponsored a range of events – from Variety, the Children's Charity special children's parties and food bank events, through to musical tours from bands like The Feelers . Its on-air competitions include breakfast giveway campaigns like the ASB All I Want For Christmas contest. Over several years, Newstalk ZB has given funding and support to Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra , visiting international productions and local theatre companies. It also supports
5076-410: The defection of 2UE most popular talkback host, Alan Jones . As a result, 2UE and owned by the same company as 2GB) abandoned most of its rigid political and hot topic -driven talkback programming in 2016, moving to a less-serious lifestyle and branded content format, although still maintaining a talkback element. Melbourne , 3AW is the highest rating talkback radio station and has also been
5170-614: The end of 2008, and was succeeded in the role by Mike Hosking . The network went through a process of restructuring during the Global Financial Crisis , removing one reporter position in the Parliamentary press gallery, one position in Wellington, one position in Auckland, and five reporting, hosting and producing roles in Christchurch. The Christchurch local news and sport bulletins and local morning show were later reintroduced, with NZME investing $ 7.8 million for
5264-673: The field. The provincial government routinely purchases transcripts of calls. A state-owned public channel called YLE Puhe. is broadcast throughout the whole country in the Finnish language. The programs include sports and news broadcasts. Its weekly listenership is about 550,000. Finland's first commercial talk station, Radio Rapu, started operations on March 1, 2014. Talk radio is a popular form of radio entertainment in France, exemplified by Europe 1, RTL, and RMC, plus state-owned France Inter. A premier English language talk radio in France
5358-415: The first to explore the medium in the 1950s. A breakthrough in talk radio occurred in 1960 at KLAC in Los Angeles. Alan Henry, a broadcaster in his early thirties, had been hired by John Kluge, president of Metromedia in 1963. Henry had previously worked in such diverse markets as Miami, Florida; Waterloo, Iowa; Hartford, Connecticut; and St. Louis, Missouri. KLAC was dead last in the ratings but Kluge wanted
5452-530: The first to have done so. KABC station manager Ben Hoberman and KMOX station manager Robert Hyland independently developed the all-talk format. KTKK , 630 AM in Salt Lake City, then known as KSXX, adopted a full-time talk schedule in 1965 and is the third station in the country to have done so. KSXX started with all local talent, and KTKK, which now airs on 1640 AM, has a larger portion of its schedule featuring local talent than most other stations that run
5546-477: The four ZB stations were music stations running a mixture of local and networked content. Each other individual station on the Newstalk ZB network has its own history with most stations starting out as a local AM radio run by Radio New Zealand . 1ZB originally operated from Broadcasting House, a purpose-built modernist theatre and studio building on Durham Street, from 1941 until its demolition in 1990. In
5640-797: The frequencies for Newstalk ZB: The Newstalk ZB programme was simulcast on the former Radio Sport network frequencies following the closure of that network on 30 March 2020. There were break-outs for Super Rugby Aotearoa and selected ANZ Premiership netball match commentaries on the following Newstalk ZB Sport branded frequencies: The former Radio Sport frequencies were rebranded as Gold AM on 1 July 2020. Match commentaries continue as part of Gold AM programming. The Newstalk ZB Timesaver Traffic Centre produces and records traffic updates for all New Zealand Media and Entertainment stations. These updates for Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Hawkes Bay, Wellington & Christchurch air every 15 minutes during peak breakfast and drive time slots, and hourly throughout
5734-404: The frequency for Newstalk 1ZB. The current Newstalk ZB nationwide 0800 number (0800 80 10 80) actually comes from the original 1080AM frequency in Auckland that is still in use today. During the late eighties and early nineties Radio New Zealand switched many of their local heritage stations to FM but retained the AM frequency in each region running the same programme on both frequencies. Following
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#17327941450035828-485: The future viability of the network. However, in 2013 the station had the highest market share of any commercial station nationwide. Paul Holmes caused controversy in September 2003, after he referred to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan as a "cheeky darkie". Holmes was labelled racist and faced pressure to resign. He issued two nationwide apologies, sent a letter of apology to Annan and met with members of
5922-485: The highest rating Melbourne radio station for several decades in a row. 6PR personality Garry Meadows was the first announcer to use talkback radio in early 1967. 'Talkback' radio, using a seven-second time-lapse mechanism, began in Australia in April 1967, simultaneously on 2SM , Sydney (with Mike Walsh ) and 3DB, Melbourne (with Barry Jones ). In the 1990s and 2000s, "talkback" on FM was attempted. The Spoonman
6016-505: The men's national football team. Typically the programming of main talk radio stations is modified whenever there is a major football event, such as a La Liga or a national team match. Daily late-night sport (football) talk shows are also very relevant, with a very intense competition of the radio stations in this time slot which typically starts around midnight. Comedy morning talk shows are also very popular in music radio stations (40 principales, M80 radio, Europa FM, and others), where there
6110-401: The mid 1980s, 1ZB Auckland lost a number of its key on-air personalities to privately owned Radio i , including Merv Smith who had hosted 1ZB's breakfast programme for over twenty years. The station's ratings subsequently plummeted as large numbers of listeners migrated to other stations. In 1987 a decision was made to re-launch 1ZB as a talkback station branded as Newstalk 1ZB. While the change
6204-469: The network news feed which mostly contained news stories related to the quake heard by all of New Zealand. Local news readers reported news about the quake for all of New Zealand. The local morning show remained on the air but was broadcast from a temporary location. Following the first earthquake this was at the Whitebait Studios in Christchurch, and following the earthquake in February it was
6298-441: 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
6392-630: The number of fatalities was irrelevant to the broader point, but the authority said the right to express opinions in editorials did not justify factually inaccurate and misleading statements. In April 2019, the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) upheld two complaints regarding the Wellington Mornings with Heather du Plessis-Allan programme on 4 September 2018, in which host Heather du Plessis-Allan described Pacific Island nations as leeches . The BSA found
6486-530: The popular song "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" – began a call-in program for the Storer station in Miami, Florida (WGBS) and then on Miami's WQAM, WINZ and WCKR. The "Alan Courtney Open Phone Forum" flourished as an avowedly conservative and anti-communist political forum with a coverage area over the Southeastern U.S. and Cuba. Joe Pyne , John Nebel , Jean Shepherd , and Jerry Williams ( WMEX -Boston) were among
6580-671: The popularity of its breakfast hosts Mike Hosking and Paul Holmes . The Broadcasting Standards Authority upheld a complaint in December 2014 about an editorial on the Israeli shelling of UNRWA Gaza shelters during the Israel-Gaza conflict . The authority found the programme had overstated the number of people killed in the bombing of the Rafah Preparatory A Boys School and had wrongly condemned Israel of targeting civilians and killing every civilian inside. Newstalk ZB argued
6674-502: The position following the release of the Nicky Hager book Dirty Politics . However, left-wing commentators called for him to be taken off-air or resign. According to Lonely Planet in 2014, the station provided a forum for "the most lively discussions on New Zealand issues". Conspiracy theorists , veganism advocates, victims of sexual assault, and housing activists have called talkback. Regular callers include an urban Māori man,
6768-423: The program segments. Variations of talk radio include conservative talk, hot talk , liberal talk (increasingly known as progressive talk), and sports talk . Talk radio has historically been associated with broadcast radio; however, starting around 2005, the technology for Internet-based talk-radio shows became cost-effective in the form of live internet website streaming and podcasts . Now, an individual can use
6862-403: The programme breached the standards of accuracy, and discrimination and denigration, and ordered Newstalk ZB to issue a on-air statement and to pay $ 1,500 in costs. Talk radio Talk shows on commercial stations are organized into segments, each separated by a pause for advertisements; however, in public or non-commercial radio, music is sometimes played in place of commercials to separate
6956-553: The programme breached the standards of good taste and decency, and discrimination and denigration, and ordered Newstalk ZB to issue a on-air statement and to pay $ 3,000 in costs. In April 2024, the BSA upheld a complaint regarding the Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby programme on 19 June 2023, in which host Kate Hawkesby made comments about Māori and Pacific patients being prioritised for surgery due to their ethnicity. The BSA found
7050-453: The programming is produced. In early December 2010, ZM relaunched its online stream as a new station, rather than relaying an existing station as it had done previously. It became the 20th ZM station to connect to the network in the same way regional markets do. This gave ZMonline its own imaging & commercial options. Local ads, weather and traffic are removed from the online station (as these are available on demand for every market inside
7144-405: The station was already on FM leaving the AM frequency to now be used to broadcast Newstalk ZB. Today most Newstalk ZB stations run complete networked programming, however Wellington and Christchurch still have a local show in the mornings between 9 am and 12 pm. Newstalk ZB's Auckland audience dropped dramatically in 2002 as music radio stations became more popular, raising questions about
7238-506: The station's positions in the past. In 2013, the Broadcasting Standards Authority rejected complaints against Slater over his suggestions that openly gay Labour MP Grant Robertson "enjoys being stabbed from behind" – and Newstalk ZB defended what they argued was "robust, irreverent, edgy" debate. In 2014, he participated in a series of one-hour pre-election panel discussions on the drive programme. He retained
7332-432: The success of the talkback format in Auckland a decision was made to switch 2ZB Wellington and 3ZB Christchurch to a talkback format in 1991. At the same time new FM music stations were established in Wellington and Christchurch, these stations were B90 FM (Wellington) and B98 FM (Christchurch). In the early nineties many of the Radio New Zealand local stations that had switched to FM began running morning talkback shows on
7426-440: The switch to all-talk as their ratings slumped due to listener migration to the FM band. Since the turn of the 21st century, with many music listeners now migrating to digital platforms such as Pandora Radio , Sirius XM Radio , and the numerous variations of the iPod , talk radio has been expanding on the FM side of the dial as well. Hot talk , also called FM talk or shock talk , is a talk radio format geared predominantly to
7520-656: The top of the ratings. The format later proliferated on cable television with a variety of new hosts, many of them taking on a similar persona to Joe Pyne. Joe Pyne and Alan Henry were major factors in establishing a new trend in radio and television programming. Alan Henry elaborates on the launching of Joe Pyne on KLAC radio and KTTV-TV in his memoir A Man and His Medium . Two radio stations – KMOX , 1120 AM in St. Louis, Missouri , and KABC , 790 AM in Los Angeles – adopted an all- talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be
7614-399: The word "darkies" in similarly offensive ways, and the public needed to forgive them in similar ways. Artist Ralph Hotere responded to Holmes' "cheeky darky" comment with a series of artworks. One, White Drip to Mister Paul Holmes , was a 2.7-metre long piece of corrugated iron painted in black, with a drip of white paint extending nearly the full length of the work. 'To Mister Paul Holmes'
7708-731: The work of the Westpac Rescue Helicopter service operated by the Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust, primarily through advertising and awareness-raising. ZB stations have a long-running history of running notices for events and community groups. Cancellations for club and school sports events and recreation clubs have traditionally been broadcast every 30 minutes during breakfast in many markets. The Newstalk ZB website combines on-demand content with breaking news coverage. The network's Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch streams are all available on
7802-692: Was Charles Adler Tonight , hosted by Charles Adler and heard on eleven stations across the country. After 5 years, the show ended in August 2021. Until 2006, Peter Warren's Warren on the Weekend was heard Saturdays and Sundays. Both programs are or were distributed by the Corus Radio Network and, coincidentally, both hosts had hosted different morning call-in programs in the same time slot on Winnipeg , Manitoba 's CJOB 680 before they became nationally syndicated (Adler's show originated from CJOB and retained its original title, while Warren
7896-410: Was a pro-democracy station that broadcast out of London, England , from 2001 to 2014. In Australia , talk radio is known as "talkback radio". The most popular talkback radio station historically was Sydney's 2UE , whose populist programs like The John Laws Morning Show , were widely syndicated across the continent. In recent years though, 2UE has been eclipsed by its Sydney rival 2GB after
7990-399: Was a program hosted by Brian Carlton on the triple m network in the late 1990s and returned in 2005 for three and a half years, the show wrapping up in 2008. It was a show that covered many topics, but the "hot talk" format in the U.S. would probably be the best way to describe the program. Talkback radio has historically been an important political forum in Australia and functions much like
8084-691: Was aired during the Morning Crew's show up until early 2006, when it was dropped for the national edition. In April 2014 Newsbeat was renamed to Newsfeed coinciding with the re-launch of ZM, at the same time the Newsfeed service was introduced on The Hits with the former ZM news readers moved over to The Hits. Timesaver Traffic reports are read out on air from NZME's Auckland studios for larger regions in New Zealand, for Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga and Dunedin. Other stations play advertisements during these times. Wellington originally ran their own local traffic reports until 2006. 10 second weather updates are read out on weekdays and air before
8178-461: Was an immediate success. Henry encouraged the confrontation with listeners and guests for which Pyne became famous. Pyne coined the line "Go gargle with razor blades," for guests with whom he disagreed. The Pyne show was the beginning of the confrontational talk format that later spread across the radio spectrum. At one point in the 1960s, the Joe Pyne show was syndicated on over 250 radio stations in
8272-621: Was based in Victoria, British Columbia .) before Charles Adler Tonight , Corus had syndicated Rutherford , hosted by conservative Dave Rutherford and originating from its Calgary station, CHQR . Rutherford is no longer syndicated nationally but continues to air in Calgary, Edmonton , and London . Other Canadian talk radio programs which have been syndicated to different markets include: Privately owned talk radio syndication networks in Canada are generally formed to share programs across
8366-480: Was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman . This was soon followed by listener call-ins and Gray is often billed as "the hot mama of talk radio". Herb Jepko was another pioneer. Author Bill Cherry proposed George Roy Clough as the first to invite listeners to argue politics on a call-in radio show at KLUF, his station in Galveston, Texas, as
8460-481: Was breaking the news about shoplifting allegations against former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman in early 2024. By late June 2024, the website had been folded back into the New Zealand Herald mothership. Newstalk ZB operates Newstalk ZB News from its Auckland news centre, producing live bulletins for the national ZB network. Wellington and Christchurch both broadcast live local news bulletins during
8554-462: Was fired by KABC in Los Angeles. The speculation was that Pyne was too controversial and confrontational for the ABC corporate culture. Henry hired Pyne on the spot and paid him $ 25,000 a year, which was then a huge salary for a radio personality. Pyne was given the night show on KLAC. Part of the agreement with Pyne was that Henry and Lightfoot would give him broad control of his program content. The show
8648-548: Was further expanded into the smaller community markets in New Zealand. The smaller regions did not have their local stations rebranded as Classic Hits during the early nineties and many of these stations were still only broadcasting on AM frequencies. These stations were consolidated together in 1998 to become part of the Community Radio Network , in 2001 all Community Radio Network stations were rebranded as Classic Hits and at this point began broadcasting on FM if
8742-526: Was located in the Merrick Radio Store at 12 New York Boulevard in Jamaica, Long Island. After some marital troubles, refusing to pay alimony and child support, he sought professional help and began his radio series where listeners would call in with their problems in 1930. Radio historians consider this the first instance of talk radio. While working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray
8836-430: Was not popular initially the station showed growth by the end of the first year and by 1989 the breakfast show presented by Paul Holmes was the number one show in Auckland. In February 1993, in Auckland, Newstalk 1ZB began broadcasting on 89.4 FM as well as the original 1080 AM when local station 89X (formerly 89FM) ceased to operate, Radio New Zealand purchased this station a year earlier and chose to close it down and use
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