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Radio New Zealand is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

public service

Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...

radio

Radio

Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

broadcaster

Broadcasting

Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and video content to a dispersed audience via any audio visual medium. Receiving parties may include the general public or a relatively large subset of thereof...

and Crown entity formed by the Radio New Zealand Act 1995. It operates news, current affairs and arts network Radio New Zealand National and classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

and jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

network Radio New Zealand Concert with full government funding from New Zealand on Air

New Zealand On Air

NZ On Air is an independent New Zealand broadcast funding agency. It is an autonomous crown entity separate from central Government and governed by a Board of six appointed by the Minister of Broadcasting...

. It is responsible for the Radio New Zealand International

Radio New Zealand International

Radio New Zealand International , a division of Radio New Zealand, is the official international broadcasting station of New Zealand. It broadcasts a variety of news, current affairs and sports programmes in English and news in seven Pacific languages...

Pacific shortwave service and the Radio New Zealand Sound Archive. It has a statutory role under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 to act as a lifeline utility in emergency situations. It provides cassette

Compact Cassette

The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...

, compact disc

Compact Disc

The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...

and podcast

Podcast

A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...

recordings of programming through its Replay Radio service. It also broadcasts all sittings of New Zealand Parliament through its Parliament-funded AM Network.

The broadcaster is bound by the Charter and Operating Principles included in the Radio New Zealand Act, which is reviewed by the New Zealand Parliament every five years and was amended in 2004. The broadcaster is required to provoke debate and critical thought, reflect New Zealand and Maori cultural diversity, cater for varied ages and interests, promote music and drama and create a sense of national identity. It must operate a news service, an international shortwave service and an archiving programme. It must also produce and commission high quality programming based on research of public needs, and balance mass appeal and minority appeal programming. In achieving these objectives, it must be socially and financially responsible.

Government-funded public service radio in New Zealand was historically provided by the Radio Broadcasting Company between 1925 and 1931, the New Zealand Broadcasting Board between 1931 and 1936, the National Broadcasting Service between 1936 and 1962, the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation between 1962 and 1975, and the Radio New Zealand state owned enterprise between 1975 and 1995. As part of the process of privatisation carried out by the fourth National government

Fourth National Government of New Zealand

The Fourth National Government of New Zealand was the government of New Zealand from 2 November 1990 to 27 November 1999. Following in the footsteps of the previous Labour government, the fourth National government embarked on an extensive programme of spending cuts...

, the government's commercial radio operations were sold to private investors as The Radio Network

The Radio Network

The Radio Network is the wholly owned New Zealand division of radio company Australian Radio Network, a partnership of Clear Channel and APN News & Media. It is the owner and operator of the Newstalk ZB News service and nationwide Newstalk ZB, Classic Hits, ZM, Coast, Hauraki, Easy Mix, Flava and...

and the government's non-commercial assets (known previously as New Zealand Public Radio) became the current Radio New Zealand Crown entity.

Radio New Zealand National

Radio New Zealand National, formerly National Radio, is Radio New Zealand's general public service

Public broadcasting

broadcaster. Flagship news and current affairs programmes Morning Report, Midday Report and Checkpoint total thirty hours every week and news updates are broadcast every hour. Magazine programmes include a broad range of contributors, interviews, music pieces and dramas, with reports and regular features in English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

and Maori

Maori language

Māori or te reo Māori , commonly te reo , is the language of the indigenous population of New Zealand, the Māori. It has the status of an official language in New Zealand...

. The network provides coverage of science, politics, philosophy, religion, rural affairs, sports and other topics.

Radio New Zealand National broadcasts in AM

AM broadcasting

AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation. AM was the first method of impressing sound on a radio signal and is still widely used today. Commercial and public AM broadcasting is carried out in the medium wave band world wide, and on long wave and short wave...

and FM

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

via mono terrestrial transmitters based around New Zealand and the Optus

Optus

SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications...

satellite

Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....

. It is also available on Sky Digital TV channel 501, Freeview satellite channel 50, and in stereo on Freeview terrestrial channel 50.

Radio New Zealand Concert

Radio New Zealand Concert is FM

FM broadcasting

radio network

Radio network

There are two types of radio networks currently in use around the world: the one-to-many broadcast type commonly used for public information and mass media entertainment; and the two-way type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery...

broadcasting classical and jazz

Jazz

music and regular news updates. The network was previously known as Concert FM but the name was changed as part of a wider name change within Radio New Zealand to associate Concert FM with the Radio New Zealand brand. Radio New Zealand Concert broadcasts in FM stereo via terrestrial transmitters located around New Zealand, as well as from the Optus

Optus

SingTel Optus Pty Limited is the second largest telecommunications company in Australia, and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications...

satellite

Satellite

. It is also available on Sky Digital TV channel 502, and on Freeview's satellite and terrestrial services on channel 51. Concert features four full-time continuity presenters (Rick Young, David Morriss, Christine Argyle and Clarissa Dunn) and several part time and specialist presenters. The playlist is among the most diverse and eclectic of the world's state run classical music networks.

Classic Morning (06:00 to 09:00) consists of hourly news updates, fifteen introduced pieces of music, a weekly competition (07:30) and a Live Diary of music events around New Zealand. After another news update, an hour is dedicated to a Composer of the Week or Theme of the Week (09:00 to 10:00). The Works (10:00-12:00) features a four varied pieces, from the well-known to the obscure and the newly recorded to archive recordings. In music and arts current affairs programme Upbeat (12:00-13:30), a news update is aired and Eva Radich discusses developments in a wide variety of music genres with reviewers, concert promoters, musicians, composers, choreographers, dancers, actors, directors, artists and other specialists. A selection of music reflecting a particular historic era or a recent development in a certain area of music (13:30=14:00) is followed by five Afternoon Requests (14:00-15:00). CD Masters (15:00-16:00) includes a news update and back catalogue CD tracks and Made in New Zealand (16:00-17:00) showcases New Zealand performers and composers with many original recordings.

Cadenza (17:00-19:00) includes a news update and fifteen short, well-known classic pieces such as opera arias and choruses with a weekly competition (17:30) and a themed segment (18:00). Appointment (19:00-20:00) is a timeslot for repeat broadcasts, feature programmes and specialist series.
Music Alive (20:00-22:00) is a timeslot for overseas concerts from ABC Classic FM

ABC Classic FM

ABC Classic FM is a classical music radio station available in Australia, and internationally online. It is operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . It was established in 1976 as "ABC-FM", and later for a short time was known as "ABC Fine Music" , before adopting its current name...

, European Broadcasting Union

European Broadcasting Union

The European Broadcasting Union is a confederation of 74 broadcasting organisations from 56 countries, and 49 associate broadcasters from a further 25...

, or WFMT Radio Network

WFMT

WFMT is an FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a format of fine arts, classical music programming, and shows exploring such genres as folk and jazz). The station is managed by Window To The World Communications, Inc., owner of WTTW, one of Chicago's two Public Broadcasting Service ...

on Wednesdays; an Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra

The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra was established in the early 1980s and has become one of New Zealand's major performing organisations. The instigation of its Composer-in-Residence programme in 1990 has made the orchestra an important force in the promotion of New Zealand composed...

concert on Thursdays, and an alternative music concert on Fridays. Day's End (22:00-24:00) includes a late night selection of music and a news update (23:00). Sound Lounge (Tuesdays 19:00-24:00) is a programme of contemporary music from the 20th and 21st centuries, hosted by Kate Mead, which combines classical

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

, jazz

Jazz

, avante garde and popular music; the show usually includes a live concert (20:00), a feature programme (21:00) and a New Music Dreams music set (23:00). A five disc automated playlist of classical music

Classical music

Classical music is the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 11th century to present times...

, Music through the Night, plays every night from 00:00 to 06:00.

Classic Morning Saturday (Saturdays 06:00-09:00) includes hourly Radio New Zealand News updates, the Best of Upbeat (Saturdays 09:00-10:00) includes three interviews from the previous week and Your Choice (Saturdays 10:00-12:00) includes listener requests. Radio New Zealand Concert Classical Chart (12:00-13:00) highlights the top 10 selling discs in New Zealand of the past week. The Art of Jazz with Phil Broadhurst (13:00-14:00) is sometimes replaced by Jazz at Lincoln Center. Global Sounds (14:00-15:00) is followed by the Saturday Concert (15:00-18:00), Made in New Zealand (18:00-19:00) and song programme Vocalied (19:00-20:00). Music Alive (20:00-22:00) often features the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is the national orchestra of New Zealand. It is a crown entity owned by the Government of New Zealand, with 90 full-time players....

and is preceded by Day's End (22:00-24:00) and Music Through the Night (00:00-06:00). Sunday programming includes spiritual music in Sanctuary (06:00-08:00), shorter tracks in Grace Notes (08:00-09:00), The Works (09:00-10:00), specialist programming (10:00-14:00, the Sunday Feature (14:00-15:00), Opera on Sunday

Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...

(15:00-18:00), Made in New Zealand (18:00-19:00), New Horizons with William Dart (19:00-20:00), Young New Zealand music profiles (20:00-22:00), Day's End (22:00-24:00) and Music Through the Night (00:00-06:00).

Radio New Zealand AM Network

The AM Network is a network

Radio network

of radio transmitters operated by Radio New Zealand which broadcast all sittings of the New Zealand Parliament through a contract with the Parliament. Sitting hours are seasonal, and may be extended due to certain circumstances, but are generally 14:00 to 18:00 Tuesday to Thursday and 19:30 to 22:00 Tuesday and Wednesday. AM Network Parliamentary coverage is also streamed online, with podcasts and transcripts available. To help fund the operation of the station, Radio New Zealand has leased the remaining hours to Christian broadcaster Rhema Broadcasting Group

Rhema Broadcasting Group

Rhema Broadcasting Group is New Zealand's largest Christian media organisation, broadcasting four radio networks and a television station, and publishing a quarterly devotional publication, from the Rhema Broadcasting Centre on Upper Queen Street in the central Auckland suburb of Newton...

since 1997, which uses the frequencies to broadcast the low-budget easy listening Southern Star network.

Transmitters in the North Island are located in Auckland

Auckland

The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

on AM 882 kHz, Napier

Napier, New Zealand

Napier is a New Zealand city with a seaport, located in Hawke's Bay on the eastern coast of the North Island. The population of Napier is about About 18 kilometres south of Napier is the inland city of Hastings. These two neighboring cities are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"...

on AM 909 kHz and Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

on AM 657 kHz; a transmitter for Hamilton

Hamilton, New Zealand

Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's fourth largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato Region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...

on AM 1494 kHz was added in 2007. Transmitters in the South Island are located in Christchurch

Christchurch

Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...

on AM 963 kHz and Dunedin

Dunedin

Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

on AM 900 kHz; a transmitter for Invercargill

Invercargill

Invercargill is the southernmost and westernmost city in New Zealand, and one of the southernmost cities in the world. It is the commercial centre of the Southland region. It lies in the heart of the wide expanse of the Southland Plains on the Oreti or New River some 18 km north of Bluff,...

on AM 1314 kHz was also added in 2007. The transmitters were previously used by The Concert Programme before it moved to FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting

Radio New Zealand International

broadcasts on shortwave

Shortwave

Shortwave radio refers to the upper MF and all of the HF portion of the radio spectrum, between 1,800–30,000 kHz. Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used...

and DRM

Digital Radio Mondiale

Digital Radio Mondiale is a set of digital audio broadcasting technologies designed to work over the bands currently used for AM broadcasting, particularly shortwave...

to neighbouring countries in the Pacific from transmitters located at Rangitaiki, near Taupo

Taupo

Taupo is a town on the shore of Lake Taupo in the centre of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the seat of the Taupo District Council and lies in the southern Waikato Region....

, in the North Island

North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...

. There also is a relay via WRN Broadcast

WRN Broadcast

WRN Broadcast, formerly known as WRN, is an international broadcast services company that works with television channels and radio broadcasters, media owners and brands enabling them to deliver content to target audiences worldwide....

and a livestream

Livestream

Livestream, formerly known as Mogulus, is a live streaming video platform that allows users to view and broadcast video content using a camera and a computer through the internet...

on the internet.

Radio New Zealand News

The network also broadcasts the flagship news programme Morning Report

Morning report

Morning report may refer to:* Morning Report - a radio programme in New Zealand* Morning report - a daily meeting of hospital doctors...

, which airs weekday mornings between 6am and 9am. The programme is presented by Geoff Robinson

Geoff Robinson

Geoff Robinson is an Australian former professional rugby league player forCanterbury-Bankstown in the New South Wales Rugby League competition. Robinson primarily played at prop.-Playing career:...

and Simon Mercep. Half hourly bulletins are read by award-winning news reader Nicola Wright. ‘Morning Report’ provides comprehensive coverage of national and international news, with reports from an experienced team of reporters and specialist correspondents. It won ‘Best News Programme’ at the Qantas Media Awards in 2005, and 'Best Programme" at the Radio Awards in 2008 and 2009. The programme has in-depth bulletins of rural, sports, Maori and business news, and news from around the Pacific.

Radio New Zealand National’s award-winning drive-time news programme ‘Checkpoint’ airs from 5pm-7pm, Monday-Friday. It is presented by experienced journalist Mary Wilson. The programme is a comprehensive round-up of the day’s national and international news. 'Midday Report' provides an hour of news at lunch-time.

Radio New Zealand's news centre is located in the country's capital, Wellington

Wellington

. The broadcaster also has newsrooms in Whangarei

Whangarei

Whangarei, pronounced , is the northernmost city in New Zealand and the regional capital of Northland Region. Although commonly classified as a city, it is officially part of the Whangarei District, administered by the Whangarei District Council a local body created in 1989 to administer both the...

, Auckland

Auckland

, Hamilton

Hamilton, New Zealand

, Tauranga

Tauranga

Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...

, New Plymouth

New Plymouth

New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated....

, Hawkes Bay, Nelson

Nelson, New Zealand

Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island....

, Christchurch

Christchurch

, Dunedin

Dunedin

and Queenstown

Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains....

. It operates a press gallery in the Beehive

Beehive (building)

The Beehive is the common name for the Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings, located at the corner of Molesworth Street and Lambton Quay, Wellington...

, the country's Parliament.

Radio New Zealand News has a team of correspondents, breaking stories and filing reports for news bulletins and programmes.

Sound Archives

Radio New Zealand Sound Archives is a non-profit entity owned by Radio New Zealand and funded by New Zealand on Air

New Zealand On Air

and user charges. It is New Zealand's national broadcast radio archive and it manages, collects, preserves and provides access to radio recordings and memorabilia from 1922 to present day. It was formed in 1998 by amalgamating Radio New Zealand's Christchurch

Christchurch

general archive collection and Auckland

Auckland

Maori programme archive into a single organisation with common management, procedures and practices. The core historical collection, started in 1956, includes 14000 lacquer discs, 20000 open reel tapes, 10000 analogue and digital tape cassettes and supporting documentation, artifacts and photographs. Archivist and oral historian Jim Sullivan draws on much of the Sound Archives material for his Sunday night radio programme, Sounds Historical, on Radio New Zealand National.

The Sound Archives is governed by an Advisory Panel which consists of chair Tainui Stephens (a freelance producer, director and writer), Russell Brown (a media commentator), Bill Francis (the General Manager of Talk Programming at The Radio Network

The Radio Network

), Nicki Reece (the Station Manager at Plains FM) and Chris Szekely (the Chief Librarian at Alexander Turnbull Library). In addition to an Archives manager, staff include an accessions archivist responsible for bringing in new material, preservation staff responsible for protecting material in the collection, cataloging staff responsible for providing descriptions to all material, a Ngā Taonga Kōrero researcher responsible for describing Maori material and a client supply archivist responsible for considering recording requests.

radionz.co.nz

The Radio New Zealand website, radionz.co.nz, was launched in October 2005 and includes news coverage, programme information, online station streaming and podcasting. Radio New Zealand National, Radio New Zealand Concert, AM Network

AM Network

The AM Network is a network of radio transmitters operated by Radio New Zealand, which broadcasts Radio New Zealand Parliament and Southern Star Network...

Parliament coverage, and Radio New Zealand International

Radio New Zealand International

are available as
Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio is an audio data compression technology developed by Microsoft. The name can be used to refer to its audio file format or its audio codecs. It is a proprietary technology that forms part of the Windows Media framework. WMA consists of four distinct codecs...

streams. Weekday daily programmes broadcast on weekdays are available as MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

and Windows Media Audio

Windows Media Audio

downloads for the following seven days, while weekend weekly programmes are available as download for the following eight weeks. Some programmes have extended archives back to January 2008, some have download in the Ogg Vorbis format, and most have on demand podcasts including the new radio soap drama You Me Now

You Me Now

You Me ... Now is New Zealand's first radio soap opera written and created by All The Way Home Productions. Season One was 25 episodes long and originally aired on Radio New Zealand in 2010...

. However, some material is not available due to insufficient copyright clearances

Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...

. The website has been awarded the Qantas Media Award

Qantas Media Award

The New Zealand Newspaper Publishers’ Association awards are annual New Zealand media awards recognising excellence in the news print media. The first awards were held in 1974 giving out awards for news photography and have expanded to include many disciplines of journalism. The awards are...

for Best Website Design in 2007, a New Zealand Open Source Award in 2008, and New Zealand Radio Award for Best Radio Website in 2009.

External links

Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand International
Sound Archives
Mediumwave Broadcasting Proposal PPT PDF

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Radio New Zealand National

Radio New Zealand Concert

Radio New Zealand AM Network

Radio New Zealand International

Radio New Zealand News

Sound Archives

radionz.co.nz

See also

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