{"id":636561,"date":"2026-10-20T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636561\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T18:52:11","slug":"veteran-radio-dunedin-broadcaster-lyndsay-rackley-dies-aged-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/636561\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Radio Dunedin broadcaster Lyndsay Rackley dies, aged 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Radio Dunedin broadcaster Lyndsay Rackley has died.<\/p>\n<p>The 82-year-old host has worked at the station since 1961, when he was just 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Dunedin is the oldest station in New Zealand and predates the BBC by five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on Facebook, Radio Dunedin credited Rackley with helping turn the station into a successful commercial operation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In our eyes, a true legend of radio,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rest in peace Lyndsay, you will be missed by both colleagues (past and present), and many listeners to whom you were their friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rackley was interviewed by RNZ&#8217;s Eyewitness for a 2021 profile of Radio Dunedin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My wife often says, &#8216;you&#8217;re married to the radio&#8217;. But I told her I was in radio long before I met her,&#8221; he told RNZ at the time.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_top\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/regions_otago\/2042415\/veteran-radio-dunedin-broadcaster-lyndsay-rackley-dies-aged-82\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792522331_153_copy-of-rnz_banner-new_0-jpg.webp\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"narrow-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><img alt=\"\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792522331_153_copy-of-rnz_banner-new_0-jpg.webp\" width=\"930\" height=\"130\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"wider-format\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:cover;display:block;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0px;width:100%;height:100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veteran Radio Dunedin broadcaster Lyndsay Rackley has died. The 82-year-old host has worked at the station since 1961,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-636561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}