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From Question Time yesterday

Here's the link to the transcript of Question Time in Parliament yesterday http://www.parliament.nz/en-NZ/PB/Business/QOA/a/7/7/49HansQ_20100225_00000003-3-Radio-New-Zealand-Funding.htm. Acting Minister Maurice Williamson attempts to suggest Jonathan Coleman has not made specific suggestions for cuts at Radio NZ. In fact the Radio NZ chair last week told the Commerce Select Committee that the Minister has raised ideas about different ways to do things - I believe the 'turn off at midnight" came from him. And ACT's David Garret repeated the M Laws falsehood that Radio NZ doesn't publish its audience shares - they are on its website and show about half a million people listen every week.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/about/audience_research

Programmes

Weekly cumulative audience figures for particular programmes on Radio New Zealand National

  •  Morning Report  366,000
  •  Nine to Noon  236,000 
  •  Afternoons with Jim Mora  208,000
  •  Checkpoint  197,000
  •  Saturday Morning with Kim Hill  197,000
  •  Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw  205,000

Radio New Zealand Concert's Classic Morning has a cume audience of 70,000, Upbeat has 43,000 listeners and Cadenza has 44,000 listeners.

'Cumulative audience' is the number of different listeners to a programme over a week. These audience figures relate to live listening.

[Source: The All New Zealand Radio Survey, for September 2008 to September 2009, among people aged 15+,  Nielsen Media research. The sample size for this period was 4176 people.]