Wow, Mediaworks have finally listened to one of my ideas and have relaunched Today FM as a Gen X station and picked Channel Z with the launch of Channel X…
MediaWorks tease new radio station as Duncan Garner gets podcast
MediaWorks is teasing a new radio station just over a month after axing Today FM and laying off at least 30 staff.
Today FM was suddenly pulled off-air at the end of March after it lost the backing of MediaWorks’ financial ownership, with host Duncan Garner describing the axing as “betrayal” live on air.
ChannelX, as it appears to be named, is playing a looped teaser on its rova streaming app.
On the app, the station is named “ ” with a white question mark on a purple background as its logo.
…Mediaworks was supposed to have made Today FM a Gen X talkback station rather than a Boomer Talkback station but managed to pick the dullest Gen Xers in NZ to host it. At least they can’t fuck up the music playlist for Channel X.
All Channel X needs now is to simulcast The Working Group.
Give us a call Wendy Palmer.
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Martun – Maybe their is hope for Mediaworks after all…
Shouldn’t you be also still be doing talkback on a Gen. Z. station, Bomber? After all, if Channel Z. radio still existed, surely that’s what it would be now.
Paul Thompson says that the R.N.Z. version of Triple J. is still on the way — the fabled youth radio network that is only twenty years behind schedule (and now left to flounder in an era of total Spotify dominance!)
Exactly why the R.N.Z. local stations and live sports coverage disappeared (and yet remained operational at the A.B.C. and B.B.C.) has never been fully explained by the politicians, either.
I used to enjoy Channel Z, long gone, now RDU is my music choice.
Me thinks Channel X is going head-to-head with BrianFM…