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THE BUSINESS OF RADIO | BROADCASTERS
34 | WORLD RADIO DAY 2016 | CELEBRATING RADIO
RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTERNATIONAL
PARENT ORGANISATION RADIO NEW ZEALAND
KEY CONTACT INFORMATION
LINDEN CLARK
Manager, RNZI
RADIONEWZEALAND INTERNATIONAL
PO Box 123
Wellington
New Zealand
+64 474 1999
PROFILE
Radio New Zealand International
(RNZI) broadcasts in digital and
analogue short wave to radio
stations and individual listeners
across the Pacific region. Around 20
Pacific radio stations relay RNZI
material daily, and individual
short-wave listeners and internet
users across the world tune in
directly to RNZI content. The RNZI
signal can sometimes be heard as
far away as Japan, North America,
the Middle East and Europe.
Our website provides a
comprehensive Pacific news service
with the very latest Pacific stories
and an extensive online news
archive. Also available are
transcripts of daily Pacific current
affairs programme Dateline Pacific, a
live audio feed, and on-demand
and podcast audio for our
programmes.
Flagship daily current affairs
programme Dateline Pacific is
widely listened to across the region
and is also broadcast by the BBC
Pacific Service.
RNZI broadcasts primarily in
English but bulletins in selected
Pacific languages can be heard in
breakfast sessions.
RNZI news and programmes can
also be heard in New Zealand on
Radio New Zealand National,
including Pacific news bulletins in
Morning Report, Tagata o te Moana
on Saturday afternoons and
Dateline Pacific as part of Late
Edition.
The service was named 2007
International Radio Station of the
Year by the Association for
International Broadcasting (AIB).
RNZI also won the Most Innovative
Partnership category recognising
the way it works with local Pacific
media. Other awards have included
Commonwealth Broadcasting
Association Rolls-Royce Awards for
Excellence.
Our studios are located in
Radio New Zealand House,
Wellington, New Zealand. The
transmission station can be found
at Rangitaiki in the middle of the
North Island.
take a more active role in the
Pacific area, the government
upgraded the service. A new 100
kW transmitter was installed and
on the same day the Commonwealth
Games opened in Auckland the
service was re-launched as Radio
New Zealand International (RNZI).
RNZI is funded through New
Zealand’s Ministry of Culture and
Heritage and run as part of New
Zealand’s public broadcaster,
Radio New Zealand.
History
In 1948 New Zealand launched
a short wave service to the
Pacific – Radio New Zealand –
with programming about New
Zealand and the Pacific. Until
1990 the station broadcast on
two 7.5 kW transmitters from
Titahi Bay which had been left
behind by the US military after
the Second World War.
In the late 1980s, following
growing political pressure to