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RNZ National listeners can expect to hear changes from next month, with current affairs programme Checkpoint extended to two hours and no longer...

RNZ National listeners can expect to hear changes on the station from next month, with the Checkpoint programme extended to two hours and no longer livestreamed daily.

Now that Kristina Simons is in the hot seat at one of Dunedin’s most beloved radio stations, she is aiming to help others fine-tune their creative...

Once the juggernaut of student radio, Auckland's 95bFM is resorting to a fundraising concert to try to clear debt in an age when every commercial station is struggling for funds.  

Since tax cuts are never a free lunch, collecting the revenue to pay for them was always going to be the credibility test of National’s tax cuts package. For that reason, most people would have assumed Inland Revenue would be included alongside ...

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It's New Zealand Music T-shirt Day! Here's what our best-dressed RNZ team are wearing to show their support for music charity MusicHelps.

It's New Zealand Music T-shirt Day! Here's what our best-dressed RNZ team are wearing to show their support for music charity MusicHelps.

IT WAS THERE in the darkness, more reassuring than a loaded gun, my old Philips portable radio. Three o’clock in the morning on Spaxington Landing, 500 miles from home, with no one beside me. Lonely? Not at all. Through that old radio came the reassuring voices of National Radio and the timeless music of the Concert Programme. The public broadcaster as friend and comforter: informative, uplifting, entertaining and – just often enough – challenging. If asked to choose between a good book a...

"Id lost my confidence, three years on the dole." Some of RNZs big names come out from behind the microphone to talk about their upbringing and careers in Behind the Mic, a series of video interviews. RNZs The Panel host Wallace Chapman is interviewed by RNZ social media producer Jogai Bhatt. Wallace talks about how a rare illness led him to his first radio gig after being on the Invalids Benefit for three years, and how this affected his confidence. They also chat about his favourite intervi...