Thursday, February 12, 2026

State-funded RNZ radio audience plummets

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State-funded legacy media RNZ’s radio listenership has dropped to its lowest level in over five years, with the latest GFK data showing a cumulative audience of 467,700—down 4.5% since November 2024 and nearly 180,000 behind rival Newstalk ZB.

Once the market leader, RNZ now ranks eighth behind ZB and six music stations.

Its flagship Morning Report show has also hit a new low with 333,200 listeners, reversing its previous lead over ZB’s Mike Hosking Breakfast, which now leads by over 100,000.

Other RNZ programmes, including Nine to Noon, Checkpoint, and Saturday Morning, also saw significant declines.

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  1. Tired of RNZ’s Globalist / Zionist hype and lies, especially about the Covid Bio-Weapon Vaccine…
    They NEVER cover the minor political parties…
    Dump the Uni-Party in 2026!

  2. Yep yep yep, the lying legacy media, increasingly disregarded by the people.
    People are waking up BECAUSE the lying legacy media overdid it. The media whores were too spineless, too greedy and outright too dumb to stand up to their money-masters.
    I would love to be a fly on the wall of the boardrooms, when discussions about who is responsible for the colossal demise of the MSM, who is accountable for the -from their side- lamentable loss of authority, and who is liable for the correlated loss of public confidence in politicians. This is huge!
    The whole lot in the beehive, can they all be really too egocentric in order to obfuscate these essential questions?
    The politician of the future is not one who who is manipulated to manipulate the people,
    but is one who sees the potential to represent a people awake.

  3. It takes a lifetime to build trust but only a few minutes to squander it.

    If a similar situation occurred in the commercial world, they wouldn’t waste $$ by throwing good money in after bad rotten investment. What they would instead do is pull the plug completely then rebrand.

    But government never learns. And media are too arrogant to ever learn.

  4. Yes well we can never forget just how condescendingly dishonest this group of state funded propaganda were during the COVID scandemic now can we peps? Disgusting filthy diseased bunch of maggots. I just hope their finding gets cut completely.

  5. The people being party who helped sell the covid distraction and lie
    And orchestrate propaganda campaigns
    Witch hunts to shut down and discredit
    Ostracize and send to Coventry truth seekers compelled by righteous nous to espouse the truth and warn an unsuspecting and blindsided public
    Such as Dr’s Mark and Sam Bailey
    And Kelvyn and Hannah Alps – Counterspin Media
    And where is Tarrant in jail?
    Or a better question
    Why would he be in jail
    After all he was only a crisis actor if at all he was even in the video
    Done so badly it had to be banned by the Ministry of Truth

  6. Take the listenership numbers as an optimistic value, provided by 3rd party entities, whose existence depends somewhat on the relationship. For commercial stations the all important variable is the specific demographics, which links to advertising income, In RNZ’s case. being state funded, it does not require advertising income,. but does want the numbers to continue to justify milking the tax payer and to inject it’s left ideology propaganda. I’d surmise RNZ’s main demographic is likely boomers who are dropping from the perch, hence the ever diminishing share.
    I do look forward to the demise of RNZ.

  7. The sad reality is that RNZ has become a deeply sinister depraved creepy self-serving indoctrinated woke/communist festival of morons.

    Perhaps not the best business model.

  8. Simply, RNZ is an untrustworthy news service. Who wants to hear fake news? Better still, Who wants to be part of theat broadcasting team?

    It took covid to wake people up. Always avoiding the true stories like Barry Young, Tommy Robinson.Explaining away like a guilty teenager to a wise informed nation how the shots were safe and effective. Never publishing the self assembling tech inside blood from those jabs.

    In my view RNZ is nothing less than covering up mass murder. It should be a criminal offence to behave in such a way.

    It is rare, but if I tune into RNZ, it is only to check and match up the propaganda and avoidance of truth. To see if they have changed their way.

  9. So much to claims by politicians these sites provide are a balance and check to to political and institutional power. People might have woken up but they are still apathetic and afraid of change. Voting instead, for more oppression and foreign control.

  10. Hoorah, maybe they will start telling the truth??? Yeah nah suckers! That’ll teach ya for lying to the public.

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