Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand House broadcasting center in Wellington

Radio New Zealand ( Māori Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa ) is the public radio institution in New Zealand . It wasfoundedin 1995 and produces two national and one international radio programs. Also transmits Radio New Zealand on medium wave debates of the New Zealand Parliament .

The broadcaster is based in Wellington . It is financed by the independent agency NZ On Air , which promotes media content. This in turn is fully financed by the state. In 2009/10, 32,842,000 are NZD as funding for Radio New Zealand provided.

history

The first radio broadcasts were made in New Zealand during the First World War , when a station went into operation in Rarotonga, which also broadcast the news of the 1918 armistice. The first regular radio stations could be listened to for a few hours a week in the larger cities since 1922.

Public broadcasting in New Zealand has its roots in 1925, when the government enacted a law that granted Radio Broadcasting Company (RBC), founded two years earlier, fees from radio sellers in the country for a period of five years for every device sold. This was made on the condition that a non-commercial broadcasting system with at least four stations would be expanded. This was the direct predecessor of today's National Radio . However, the proceeds from these taxes were so inadequate that in 1931 a radio directorate was set up under the government, which, however, was still dependent on license fees. In 1936, the country's first Labor government established the National Broadcasting Service as a government agency. After World War II the system was reorganized into the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS) and in 1962 the status as a government agency ended with the establishment of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC)

Initially, broadcasts took place in the four major cities of the country: Auckland , Wellington , Christchurch and Dunedin , but the programs also led to a closer rapprochement between town and country because now all citizens could hear the same programs. Mainly music was broadcast at that time. Since 1927 there was also news and an evening weather report, which was aimed primarily at farmers. School radio began in 1931 with regular broadcasts.

With the Radio New Zealand Act 1995 , also known as the Broadcasting Act , Radio New Zealand was set up as a state-owned sole proprietorship from 1995, responsible for the various radio programs National , Concert and Radio New Zealand Pacific (until April 2017: Radio New Zealand International ) is.

Programs

Radio New Zealand National broadcasts a mix of information, talk, features, radio plays and music. In terms of music, a minimum 33% share of New Zealand productions is required.

Radio New Zealand Concert mainly broadcasts classical music, partly also jazz and world music. The music content in the program is 85 percent.

Radio New Zealand Pacific (RNZ Pacific, until April 2017: Radio New Zealand International , RNZI) is the New Zealand international service . It specializes in news and New Zealand and Pacific related topics and is primarily available on shortwave. In addition, the programs are broadcastworldwidevia satellite, live stream and podcast on the Internet.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NZ On Air Statement of Intent (SOI) 2009-2012. (PDF 864 kB) 2009, archived from the original on February 8, 2013 ; accessed on December 28, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Wireless station established in Rarotonga . New Zealand History Online , November 1, 2010, accessed June 5, 2011 (report from the Poverty Bay Herald, April 20, 1918).
  3. ↑ 1922 key events. First radio stations on the air . New Zealand History Online , June 21, 2010; accessed June 5, 2011 .
  4. ^ Nancy Swarbrick : Rural media: Radio . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , November 24, 2008, accessed December 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b About RNZ Pacific. Radio New Zealand, accessed January 6, 2019 (en-nz).
  6. ^ Radio New Zealand Act 1995 . In: New Zealand Legislation . Parliamentary Counsel Office , September 25, 1995, accessed February 7, 2010 .
  7. ↑ How To Lists . Radio New Zealand , October 28, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 .

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