| Newstalk ZB | |
| Broadcast area | New Zealand |
|---|---|
| Frequency | List available below |
| Format | News and talk |
| Owner | The Radio Network |
| Website | www.newstalkzb.co.nz |
Newstalk ZB is a nationwide New Zealand talkback radio network operated by The Radio Network of New Zealand (TRN). It is available in almost every radio market in the country, and has news reporters based in most of them. In addition to talkback, the network also broadcasts news, interviews, music, and sports (in partnership with its sister network Radio Sport).
Most of the network's programming is produced in Auckland, in the Radio Network building on the corner of Cook & Nelson Streets. Wellington and Christchurch produce some local programming and most markets produce their own local news and weather updates.
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Newstalk ZB started in 1987 when Auckland's 1ZB changed to a talkback format and was originally known as Newstalk 1ZB. 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, however some stations ran separate programmes at certain times(such as talk shows) on the AM frequency. In 1993 and 1994 the local station in each region was rebranded with the Classic Hits name and the AM frequency was used to roll out Newstalk ZB across New Zealand. In Christchurch and Wellington local stations 2ZB and 3ZB changed to a talkback format around 1991 and new local stations Goodtime Oldies B90 FM (Wellington) and Goodtime Oldies B98 FM were created. Around 1994 2ZB and 3ZB were rebranded as Newstalk ZB retaining local announcers at first but in recent years as local announcers have left shows have been replaced with network shows. Wellington and Christchurch still have a local show in the mornings between 9 am and 12 pm. In February 1993, in Auckland, Newstalk ZB 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 the frequency for Newstalk ZB. The Newstalk ZB nationwide 0800 number (0800 80 10 80) actually comes from the original 1080AM frequency in Auckland that is still in use today.
In 1996 Radio New Zealand sold their commercial operation and Newstalk ZB, along with Classic Hits and ZM, became part of The Radio Network.
Newstalk ZB operates one of the largest news operations in New Zealand. A total of 45 reporters are employed across most radio markets, including key newsrooms in Parliament and central Auckland. According to TRN's website, the service aims on "being first, fast and factual".
The Auckland news centre produces bulletins for the national Newstalk ZB network, as well as local Auckland bulletins at certain times of day (breakfast and lunchtime). Regional ZB stations either produce their own bulletins or take the network bulletin.
News presenters include Bernadine Oliver-Kerby, Barry Holland, Niva Retimanu, Tim Dower, Kate Hawkesby, Bruce Russell, Gary Fox, Jennifer Bainbridge and Andrew Scott, and the main sports hosts are Matt Brown, Malcolm Jordan, Brenton Vannissleroy, Tony Veitch and Rikki Swannell.
In October 2008, webcams were installed inside the Newstalk ZB news studio, and weekday bulletins that go to air hourly between 6 am – 6 pm can be downloaded as video files from the Newstalk ZB website, and the presenter can be seen reading the bulletin. The files are available 15 minutes past the hour that the bulletin went to air.
The Newstalk ZB Affiliates Unit, based in the Auckland newsroom, produces a variety of radio news bulletins each hour for other stations belonging to the TRN group, including Classic Hits, Radio Hauraki, Coast, Radio Sport and Easy Mix. Some of these stations have their own newsreader during breakfast reading the Affiliates' bulletins, but at other times these stations air the recorded bulletins from the Affiliates Unit. It also sells a radio news bulletin to a variety of external clients, including the Rhema network of stations, 1XX Whakatane Radio Wanaka and Big 106.2. Hokonui Gold in Gore also uses the Newstalk ZB service as the stations operation is leased to The Radio Network. Gary Denvir and experienced newsreader Barry Holland present the Affiliates' bulletins during breakfast on weekdays, and Niva Retimanu presents weekday afternoons, with Gary fox reading the updates from 4:30 pm up until the late night and early morning broadcasts. Weekend presenters include Jennifer Bainbridge,Kaye Albyt, Joe Gilfillan, Bob Leahy and Bruce Russell. Due to cost-cutting in mid-2009, some of the Affiliates' newsreading positions were axed, meaning that the same presenter who reads the flagship Newstalk ZB bulletin also records the affiliates bulletins. The only time there are separate newsreaders for the affiliates bulletins are between 6 am-12 pm seven days a week, and between 4:30-7 pm during weekdays. At all other times bulletins are read by the newsreader who is on the Newstalk ZB live flagship bulletin, which previously was always a different newsreader.
The hourly news bulletins produced by Newstalk ZB in Auckland include:
News bulletins produced from Newstalk ZB feeds include:
On the internet it provides a continuously-updated wire service of text articles and streaming audio for websites such as XtraMSN, TelstraClear, NZ City and the New Zealand Rugby Union.
Newstalk ZB also supplies a news wire service to Prime TV, Sky TV and TVNZ.
Newstalk ZB's talkback radio format has been established over a number of years, and its schedule has remained consistently successful, and hence fairly unchanged, since a major relaunch in 1987.
Tim Dower and John Peachey make regular appearances as substitutes on Newstalk ZB's schedule.
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| Monday | 5:30 Live | Mike Hosking Breakfast | Leighton Smith Mornings | Danny Watson Afternoons | Larry Williams Drive | Murray Deaker Sportstalk | Kerre Woodham Nights | Bruce Russell Overnights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tuesday | 5:30 Live | Murray Deaker Sportstalk | Kerre Woodham Nights | Bruce Russell Overnights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday | 5:30 Live | Murray Deaker Sportstalk | Kerre Woodham Nights | Bruce Russell Overnights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thursday | 5:30 Live | Murray Deaker Sportstalk | Kerre Woodham Nights | Pat Brittenden Overnights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Friday | 5:30 Live | Murray Deaker Sportstalk | Friday Night with Bruce Russell | Pat Brittenden Overnights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday | Overnight | Garage Sale | Sport Today | Paul Holmes Saturday Morning | Saturday Scoreboard | Nostalgia | Pat Brittenden Overnights | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sunday | Overnight | Best of Mike Hosking & Leighton Smith | Raud Kleinpaste | Sportstalk | Kerre's Cafe with Kerre Woodham | Deaker on Sunday | Nostalgia | John Cowan | Petra Bagust and Pat Brittenden | John Peachey Overnights | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Breakfast on Newstalk ZB is presented by Mike Hosking. Every half hour the show provides news updates with Bernadine Oliver-Kerby or Kate Hawkesby, sports updates with Matt Brown and local news updates, weather forecasts and traffic reports presented by Wendy Meyer in Auckland and local announcers elsewhere. During the remainder of each half hour Hosking presents commentary, reports, talkback and interviews, including a regular Monday segment with the Prime Minister - John Key. Mike Hosking took on the role of breakfast announcer at the start of 2009, previously this show was presented by Paul Holmes having done this show since 1987, and the show consistently remained the highest-rating breakfast programme on commercial radio in New Zealand. Today Paul Holmes remains with Newstalk ZB presenting Saturday mornings. Until the end of 2008, Christchurch opted out of the nationwide breakfast show, presenting their own local breakfast with John Dunne and Ken Ellis, which topped the ratings regularly. Christchurch now takes the nationwide breakfast show but with full local news bulletins, Tim Fookes presents similar news updates tailored for the Wellington region. In smaller regional cities and towns, the local journalist presents local news into a window between national news and sport. The show also has "sevral" Producers.
The morning slot on Newstalk ZB is primarily news-related talkback, with some interviews with newsmakers and regular guests. Most stations broadcast a talkback programme with right-wing host Leighton Smith. During this timeslot other stations may broadcast their own talkback and interview programmes; Wellington broadcasts a programme with Justin Du Fresne and until the end of 2009, Christchurch also broadcast local programming but will join the network morning show in 2010.
During the afternoons, between 12:00 pm and 4:00 pm, Danny Watson presents a talkback programme that also includes regular special interest discussions with specialist journalists. Some regions opt out of this show between 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm and instead broadcast The Farming Show, which is produced by TRN's Dunedin studios. These regions are Alexandra, Ashburton, Blenheim, Gisborne, Greymouth, Oamaru, Queenstown, Taumarunui, Taupo, Timaru, Tokoroa, Wairarapa, Wanaka and Wanganui.
For three hours between 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm Larry Williams presents a programme on current affairs. There are brief updates of news, local news, sports, weather and traffic every twenty minutes, with longer news updates every hour. Williams also interviews political editor Barry Soper, and offers personal commentary on news issues.
The evening timeslot on Newstalk ZB is almost entirely dedicated to talkback. Between 7.00 pm and 8.00 pm, Murray Deaker, Peter Montgomery or Willie Lose present an hour of sports-related talkback, known as SportsTalk, simulcast live with Radio Sport. Between 8:00 pm and 12:00 am, the network broadcasts four hours of nationwide talkback, hosted by Kerre Woodham from Monday to Thursday evenings and Bruce Russell on Friday evenings.
Every morning the 12:00 to 5.30 am timeslot features talkback on current affairs, music and hourly news, sports and weather updates. At 5.30 a programme called 5.30 Live airs Monday to Friday which talks with the main centre news people. Saturday it is called "Super Sport Saturday". Sundays sees a Garage sale program where listeners can buy, sell any product. The 5 1/2 hour programme has a heavy reliance on audience participation. The programme is presented by Bruce Russell Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and is a newsreader for the network Saturday nights during Jim Sutton's Nostalgia and Pat Brittenden does Thursday, Friday & Saturday mornings plus John Peachey does Sunday mornings and is a fill-in host. Former bFM host Noelle McCarthy was hosting Thursday through Monday mornings in early 2007 following the resignation of James King, but she resigned due to the "hours taking a toll on her health" but many people believe she was pushed because of negative response from the overnight audience. She was replaced by Pat Brittenden, who until that point was a regular fill-in host on Newstalk ZB. Previous hosts have included James King who hosted the ovenight programme for more than six years until December 1, 2006 to study at Massey University in Wellington, Tim Dower and Martin Crump, who now works for rival station Radio Live.
Weekend and public holiday programming on Newstalk ZB is based around lifestyle features, sports coverage and music.
Most Newstalk ZB markets air a local sports show on Saturday mornings.
Saturday and Sunday mornings are dominated by discussions on hobbies and personal life. Paul Holmes presents the Saturday Morning Programme between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm on Saturday mornings, and Kerre Woodham presents a similar programme, called Kerre's Cafe, at the same time on Sunday morning, both featuring interviews and sponsored regular guests segments. From 6:00 am till 7:00, 'best of' shows are played with interviews done by morning hosts during the week. Also on Sunday morning, between 7:00 am and 8:00 am, Ruud Kleinpaste, presents an hour-long gardening programme.
Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin broadcast 'All Sports Breakfast' shows during 6 am and 9am on Saturday mornings.
Wellington runs its own local show known as "The Great Weekender" between 9:00 am – 12:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays, the show previously hosted by Garry Ward for 26 years. The history of this show dates back to 1983 on Wellington's 2ZB and all this time had been hosted Garry Ward. Garry Ward passed away suddenly on September 17, 2009, however the show currently remains local for the Wellington market.
During Saturday afternoon, between 12:00 pm and 6:00 pm, Willie Lose presents ScoreBoard, a combination of live sports updates and commentary and sports-related talkback. The programme, which is usually simulcast on Radio Sport, includes interviews with major New Zealand sports people. Wellington breaks out for a local Scoreboard show, focusing on local sports issues like the Wellington Phoenix and local club sport updates. For over 40 years, Christchurch also broadcast a Scoreboard show for its region, hosted by Malcolm Ellis for over 15 years, however the Christchurch show was discontinued at the end of 2009 due to cost-cutting by The Radio Network and will take Lose's show from 2010 with local breakouts twice an hour. Murray Deaker presents a show for the network on Sunday afternoons with a similar format to Saturday Scoreboard, called Deaker on Sunday
On Saturday evenings, a Nostalgia programme is hosted by Jim Sutton, showcasing music from yesteryear is aired from 6pm until midnight.
During Sunday evenings, Jim Sutton again hosts a Nostalgia programme, in a condensed two hour format, playing write-in request music. From 8 pm, a family advice show is aired, hosted by John Cowan and at 9 pm a new talkback show airs it is called Sunday Sunday with Petra Bagust with over night host Pat Brittenden co-hosting alongside.
On Holiday evenings, either a Nostalgia programme or extended talkback programme is aired.
During the Christmas and New Year holiday season, the schedule changes, with a single nationwide breakfast show running from 6 am until 9 am, usually hosted by newsreader and fill-in host Tim Dower or normal drive show presenter Larry Williams, followed by a morning shift from 9 am until 1 pm, hosted by Mike Yardley a former host of Newstalk ZB Christchurch and an afternoon shift until 6 pm, hosted by overnight presenter Bruce Russell. This is followed by a 6 hour evening shift until midnight, hosted by Pat Brittenden. The overnight shift usually presented by John Peachey and Alf Rose. The mornings, afternoon and evening shifts during this time are devoted almost entirely to talkback.
Newstalk ZB also operates its own Timesaver Traffic Centre, which produces and records traffic information to all stations in The Radio Network. The centre in Auckland records reports for 6 different areas around the country - Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin. All of The Radio Network's stations in these markets air these reports every 15 minutes during peak times(breakfast & drive), with Newstalk ZB and Classic Hits airing reports hourly right throughout the day and weekends.
During weekends and public holidays, the Timesaver Traffic Team also record a 30-second "Weatherwatch" forecast for each of TRN's 26 markets across the country. Some markets choose to use these tracks for the local Newstalk ZB forecast, and other stations such as Easy Mix and Radio Sport use these forecasts and network them by satellite to play simultaneously in each market on the station.
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