RNZ’s radio ratings drop ‘a cause for soul-searching’ says CEO;
RNZ’s radio ratings have plummeted with several top shows, including Morning Report, losing thousands of listeners in a matter of months – part of a longer-term downward trend for the public broadcaster, according to new survey results.
While RNZ is highlighting its creditable performance across digital platforms and the likes of podcasts – saying its content reaches more New Zealanders than ever – chief executive Paul Thompson acknowledges that RNZ National’s radio ratings are “concerning” and “a cause for soul-searching”.
GfK ratings released this week show RNZ National now has a cumulative audience of 494,500 – falling below 500,000 for the first time in at least four years. It had a cumulative audience of more than 700,000 in mid-2020.
Any incoming Labour/Green/Maori Party Government needs to sack Paul Thompson once and for all.
His insipid leadership deserves ending, not celebrating.
RNZ have capitulated to ZB with a piss weak Auckland presence.
Morning Report has been dumbed down.
The fiasco over Mick Hall supposedly being a soviet spy when nothing like that was true.
The Panel with Wallace Chapman is now just an uber woke vegan dinner party in Ponsonby where you are caught between Toby Manhire and Alison Mau arguing over who hates heteronormative white cis males most.
The real point of difference is that Hosking has 2 Producers, and Morning Report has 14.
Some will say I don’t like Paul because he was instrumental in keeping me banned for life from the station. In 2011, I was banned for life from RNZ after I supposedly ‘defamed’ John Key, Paul took over in 2013 and I was never allowed back.
The elitism of RNZ has been led by Thompson and he is responsible for the alienation of listeners.
RNZ is just a woke circle jerk now and its complacency can’t be better summed up than a recent story, What it’s like to be an asexual sex worker in New Zealand.
The life and times of Asexual sex workers?
Wow.
There’s niche and then there’s ‘RNZ Niche’.
We have major inequality issues, we have major poverty issues, we have major environmental issues and RNZ is focusing on the emotional stresses of being an Asexual sex worker.
What else can one say?
RNZ needs fresh leadership, Paul Thompson has done his dash. Get Brent Impey in there.
Martyn – RNZ has fallen a long way…real shame
Willie McWonker needs to move on too
I always enjoy Martyn’s anthropological analysis of dead cultures.
I always enjoy Martyn Bradbury. No one in Australasia rolls like this. Not many, if any.
Scribe. Live
https://youtu.be/5lVdaWBjiLM?feature=shared
Remix.
https://youtu.be/1hUrR44RlcY?feature=shared
Well, the deep, dark state has fucked our health system, they’ve fucked education, transportation, our primary industry, our rail infrastructure and are now determined to have us at each other for the lands we stand on. All that sounds like a tactical invasion by stealth to me.
RNZ is embarrassing. National Radio is a moulting parrot standing in a corner jabbering on about what we already know while Concert FM just changes its colostomy bag then soldiers on. Nothing about us suffocating under the fat arses of the multi-billionaires, the multi-millionaires and the four second most profitable banksters in the world being being ANZ, BNZ, ASB and Westpac whom we pay to crush the life out of us.
Why do you think we keep doing the same things while expecting different results? Could it be that we’ve been head-fucked? Also groomed, conditioned, bullied, impoverished, and have been taught to brawl amongst ourselves while our new owners watch down on us impassively.
Farmers, Maori, down stream service industry reps? Unite. Compulsory Unity. Not! Rogers cheap junk Laissez-faire policies of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society because the banks say “nah ah”. The doctrine of laissez-faire is usually associated with the economists known as Physiocrats, who flourished in France from about 1756 to 1778. The term laissez-faire means, in French, “allow to do.” because that attitude will get you done in as we can see. ( Wikipedia.) We kiwis must understand where it all went tits up and for why. NOT! She’ll be righting it into extinction.
Tell us about Brett Impey. Also, can’t believe you were banned…for dissing John Key. WTF.
Btw seeing him in a more lukewarm light in compare to the scumbags ruling now.
The rot started with Sharon Crosbie’s appointment to run National Radio when she returned from a funded scholarship from, I recall, Harvard in the USA, having been thoroughly indoctrinated in the very latest neoliberal free market bullshit. She set to wielding the axe and gutting the operation in the early/mid nineties with the precision knowledge only an ex-insider cum turncoat could enjoy.
It’s been consistent downhill slide toward a coffee table chat service ever since.
Sharon did not meet with much resistance did she?
I remember how the open letter by late Sir Edmund and other cultured few was ridiculed.
What was formerly known as “Concert FM” is a canary in the coal mine. It regressed from high quality to hardly listenable “fram cassecl ta alatrancz” (trying to quote one of the presenters)
of today.
There are still a few presenters there trying to sneak in the quality, hope they will survive.
On the bright side, it is still on FM. Attempt of dumping it into AM cesspit a few years ago was aborted because of public outcry.