Radio New Zealand

Radio New Zealand ( Te Reo o Aotearoa Irirangi ) is the public radio institution in New Zealand. It was founded in 1995 and produced two national and an international radio program. In addition, Radio New Zealand transmits on Medium Wave debates of the New Zealand Parliament.

The broadcaster has its head office in Wellington. It is funded by the independent agency NZ On Air, which promotes media content. This in turn is funded entirely by the state. In the year 2009/10 NZD 32.842 million are provided as promotion for Radio New Zealand.

History

First there was radio broadcasts in New Zealand during the First World War, when in Rarotonga a station is put into operation, which is also used, the message was spread over the 1918 armistice. The first regular radio stations could be heard weekly since 1922 in the larger cities for a few hours.

Public broadcasting in New Zealand has its roots in 1925, when the government adopted a law that zubilligte founded two years earlier Radio Broadcasting Company (RBC ) over a period of five years fees from the radio sellers in the country for each device sold. This was placed under the condition that a non -commercial broadcasting system with at least four stations would be further strengthened. For this was the direct ancestor of today's National Radio. The proceeds from these taxes were so insufficient that a government, subordinate to broadcast Board was set up in 1931, further, however, was dependent on license fees. In 1936, the first Labour government of the country informed the National Broadcasting Service ( National Broadcasting Service ) as a government agency. After the Second World War, the system for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service ( NCBs ) was reorganized and in 1962 ended the status as a government agency with the establishment of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation ( NZBC )

It was broadcast at the beginning in the four major cities of the country: Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, but the program also led to an increasing convergence of city and country, because now all the citizens could listen to the same program. It was broadcast at that time, especially music. Since 1927 there was also an evening news and weather report, which was directed primarily to farmers. The school began in 1931 with regular radio broadcasts.

With the Radio New Zealand Act 1995 (also known as the Broadcasting Act ) 1995 Radio New Zealand was built as a private company owned by the state, which is responsible for the various radio programs National, Concert and Radio New Zealand International.

Programs

Radio New Zealand National sends a mix of information, talc, features, radio dramas and music. In music, a share of at least 33 percent of New Zealand productions is required.

Radio New Zealand Concert sends especially classical music, sometimes jazz and world music. The proportion of music in the program is 85 percent.

Radio New Zealand International ( RNZI ) is the New Zealand Foreign Service. He specializes in news and New Zealand -related issues and to receive predominantly on short wave. In addition, the programs via the World Radio Network via satellite and via live stream on the internet as a podcast and are distributed worldwide.