{"id":310277,"date":"2025-11-27T13:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310277\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T13:09:13","slug":"radio-ratings-newstalk-zb-rules-the-airwaves-the-breeze-tops-the-music-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/310277\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio ratings – Newstalk ZB rules the airwaves; The Breeze tops the music stations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coast \u2013 which has undergone a music review and overhaul in recent months \u2013 has had the biggest jump in national share, up 0.9 to a share of 5.4. The Magic\/Breeze Classic also enjoyed a rise, up 0.4 points to a national share of 6.8.<\/p>\n

\"JasonJason Reeves, Toni Street and Sam Wallace host the breakfast show on Coast. Photo \/ NZME<\/p>\n

In a relatively stable market, NZME\u2019s ZM (-0.6) and MediaWorks\u2019 More FM (-0.4) recorded the two biggest falls.<\/p>\n

Of much interest will be the progress of RNZ, whose own ratings are released separately from the commercial networks next week.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Breeze’s Auckland breakfast hosts Robert Rakete and Jeanette Thomas.<\/p>\n

Cumulative audiences fell for almost every radio station nationally. ZB was the only station to maintain an audience above 600,000 \u2013 at 603,600, it was down 16,400 listeners. The Breeze has 547,900 listeners, down from 558,400.<\/p>\n

Hosking has a national breakfast audience of 424,300 \u2013 back slightly from 433,400 in the previous survey. Second-place The Breeze has a national breakfast audience of 287,500, up from 272,200.<\/p>\n

\"MattMatt Heath and Tyler Adams have made strong inroads, nationally and in Auckland.<\/p>\n

One of the standout performers for ZB is its 12pm-4pm afternoon show. Hosts Matt Heath and Tyler Adams are up 2.6 points in Auckland, to a share of 10.9, and from third to second place. They are now nipping at the heels of The Breeze, which has stayed stable on a share of 11.7. Nationally, the pair rose 0.7 points.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, NZME\u2019s newest station, iHeartCountry, has debuted with 40,200 weekly listeners in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.<\/p>\n

The Radio Bureau chief executive Alistair Jamison said: \u201cOur linear audiences continue to show resilience and when combined with the incremental audiences that we know we are generating from our digital platforms, audio offers advertisers a powerful, cost-efficient audience on an ongoing basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

MediaWorks chief executive Wendy Palmer said audio continued to deliver strong results.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking at annualised cumulative audiences across the three surveys in 2025, audio reached 3.410 million Kiwis on average each week this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

NZME chief executive Michael Boggs added: \u201c2025 has been a strong year in terrestrial radio but also digital audio, with Infinite Dial showing the growing strength of local digital platforms. We\u2019re particularly proud of iHeartRadio\u2019s growth over the past two years. In 2025 we have seen ongoing investment and enhancement of both local platforms and as a result we expect to see digital audiences and advertiser support continuing to flourish in 2026.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coast \u2013 which has undergone a music review and overhaul in recent months \u2013 has had the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[138674,138670,138671,49,48,10511,66647,75,138672,138673,341,138668,1893,14296,46234,4553,51278,3046,1462,15277,9230,2552,138669,22552],"class_list":["post-310277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-17th","tag-airwaves","tag-breeze","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-commercial","tag-countrys","tag-entertainment","tag-finished","tag-leading","tag-music","tag-newstalk","tag-radio","tag-ratings","tag-row","tag-rules","tag-station","tag-stations","tag-the","tag-tops","tag-while","tag-year","tag-zb","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}