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Directory enquiries: Does the Yellow Pages have a future? © PHOTO / RNZ Mediawatch Once a billion-dollar business, its critics claim the country’s most widely circulated publication is now a redundant and wasteful throwback to pre-digital times. But now under new management, the Yellow Pages has a digital plan.What’s the future for the once-ubiquitous directory whose fortunes mirror those of the news media? Households in and around Auckland have been getting the Yellow Pages on their doorsteps lately - but not everyone‘s pleased to get another copy of the distinctive book that’s tak...

Photo: PHOTO / RNZ Mediawatch Households in and around Auckland have been getting the Yellow Pages on their doorsteps lately - but not everyone‘s pleased to get another copy of the distinctive book that’s taken up space in almost every home in the country for decades.  Comedian Urzila Carlson, for example:  The Yellow Pages is the butt of lots of gags like that in the internet era, but recently it’s also had pushback from critics complaining it’s unsolicited, unwanted, unnecessary and wasteful.  Two years ago online news service Crux - which covers Queenstown and the southern lakes...

While Aotearoa has fallen in love with her always on, always funny TV segments, Laura says that just like everyone else, 2020 was a tough-at-times cookie for her too.

Polly Gillespie has just released a new book. OPINION: "'I'll just have a little rest, a wee disco nap," I told myself before I headed off to my Seven Sharp interview, with the funny and rather adorable reporter Julian Lee. It didn't happen. Instead I sat on my bed as anxious as a 15-year-old waiting for NCEA level one exam results. Any more tightly wound, and I would not have needed a car to get to the location. I would simply spring there in several boing, boing, boings! I assume releasing one’s first book is supposed to be exciting. I felt like I was about to perform Lady Macbeth witho...

Hilary The Hits' 3pm Pick Up is here! Our lovely Laura McGoldrick is heading on maternity leave and while she's away the amazing co-host of Seven Sharp, Hilary Barry will be looking after your 3pm! Join Hilary Barry weekdays to help you through the afternoons. Follow the 3pm Pick-Up with Laura McGoldrick on Facebook and Instagram and tune into the podcast on iHeartRadio. Whether Kiwi’s are shopping in one of their 183 stores or using their popular online shopping service, Countdown are committed to providing customers with choice, value an...