MediaWorks Radio

MediaWorks owns nine of New Zealand’s radio stations.

New Zealand Radio History

A chronology of broadcast radio in New Zealand.

News media ownership in New Zealand

A 2008 report on which organisations own New Zealand’s media, written by Bill Rosenberg (PDF 1.1 MB).

Radio New Zealand

The website of the Crown-owned entity which runs four public radio stations.

Sound of New Zealand: 100 years of radio

The first of a five-part series that looks at the history of radio in New Zealand, first broadcast on RNZ National in 2011.

Day, Patrick. A history of broadcasting in New Zealand. Vol. 1, The radio years. Auckland: Auckland University Press in association with the Broadcasting History Trust, 1994.

Day, Patrick. A history of broadcasting in New Zealand. Vol. 2, Voice and vision. Auckland: Auckland University Press in association with the Broadcasting History Trust, 2000.

Downes, Peter, and Peter Harcourt. Voices in the air: radio broadcasting in New Zealand, a documentary. Wellington: Methuen in association with Radio New Zealand, 1976.

Neill, Karen, and Morris W. Shanahan. The great New Zealand radio experiment. Melbourne: Thomson and Dunmore Press, 2005.

The radio book. Christchurch: New Zealand Broadcasting School, Christchurch Polytechnic, 1994.