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Annual Report 2017-2018 F19 Making sense of a CHANGING WORLD RADIO NEW ZEALAND ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 RNZ has the highest level of trust of any New Zealand media organisation COLMAR BRUNTON/VALUE INDICES RESEARCH 2018 COMPUTER RENDERING BY GRAPHIC ARTIST ANTON BALAZH Independent, trusted journalism and high-quality programming are increasingly important in a media environment consumed by fake news and toxic social comment. E piki haere ana te hiranga o ngā mahi kawe pūrongo e noho motuhake ana, e whakawhirinakitia ana anō hoki, otirā, o ngā hōtaka kounga, i tētahi taiao pāpāho kua warea kē ki ngā rongo teka me ngā kupu ā-pāpori hahani. 05 THE YEAR IN REVIEW 10 OUR CHARTER 12 CHAIR’S REPORT 14 CEO’S REPORT 17 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE 42 SERVICE PERFORMANCE 51 RNZ MĀORI STRATEGY 52 GOOD EMPLOYER REPORT Checkpoint technical staff, Auckland. Photo: RNZ Author Witi Ihimaera with Sunday Morning presenter Wallace Chapman. Photo: RNZ/Claire Eastham-Farrelly THE YEAR IN REVIEW 05 Highlights of the year On-air audiences remain strong RNZ has an estimated weekly while online audiences, for both the website and on-demand audio, audience of 845,945 people continue to strengthen and grow WEEKLY AUDIENCE ACROSS ALL PLATFORMS (UNDUPLICATED) IN JUNE 2018 ON-AIR Number of people who listened live to 682,700 RNZ National and Concert each week 457,100 318,800 287,100 Number of people who listened each Number of people who listened Number of people who listened week to MORNING REPORT with each week to NINE TO NOON with each week to CHECKPOINT with Susie Ferguson and Guyon Espiner Kathryn Ryan John Campbell 286,900 257,800 293,200 Number of people who listened Number of people who listened Number of people who listened each week to AFTERNOONS with each week to SATURDAY MORNING each week to SUNDAY MORNING Jesse Mulligan with Kim Hill with Wallace Chapman SOURCE: GFK RADIO AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT NATIONWIDE FIGURES (12-MONTH PERIOD TO 16 JUNE 2018) NEW ZEALAND’S RNZ National is number one among all NUMBER ONE radio stations nationwide with a share of % 11.5 RADIO STATION SOURCE: GFK RADIO AUDIENCE MEASUREMENT, ALL RADIO STATIONS, TOTAL NEW ZEALAND - RNZ 2/2018, ALL PEOPLE 10+ ONLINE 1,054,091 867,329 604,253 526,007 360,388 563,979 up 14% up 21% YEAR ON YEAR YEAR ON YEAR 1ST HALF 1ST HALF 1ST HALF 1ST HALF 1ST HALF 1ST HALF 2016 2017 2018 2016 2017 2018 Average weekly website users Average weekly sessions SOURCE: GOOGLE ANALYTICS 06 RNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 Highlights of the year ON DEMAND RNZ offers a range of archived audio, podcasts and series, all free for download. Most podcasts contain recent audio, 18.5 million although full audio archives from 2008 onwards are Total audio available through the RNZ programme pages downloads JAN-JUNE 2017 JAN-JUNE 2018 8 million 8.8 million up 9% downloads downloads YEAR ON YEAR SOURCE: GOOGLE ANALYTICS Three-quarters of New Zealanders agree it’s important to have a public service broadcaster. SOURCE: COLMAR BRUNTON VALUE INDICES RESEARCH 2018 RNZ also delivers content through a growing number of third-party platforms 8,719 hours of RNZ Pacific content 6.4m pageviews PACIFIC PROGRAMMING for the RNZ Pacific website RNZ Pacific (RNZ International) provides comprehensive Pacific coverage with the very latest Pacific radio stations Pacific stories and an extensive online news archive 17 rebroadcast RNZ Pacific Micronesia Marshall Islands Kiribati Nauru Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Tuvalu Samoa American Samoa Fiji New Caledonia Niue Tonga Tahiti Cook Islands Norfolk Island RNZ shortwave coverage RNZ satellite coverage IMAGE © 2018 GOOGLE. DATA SIO, NOAA, U.S. NAVY, NGA, GEBCO. IMAGE LANDSAT/COPERNICUS. U.S. DEPT OF STATE GEOGRAPHER RNZ News rural journalist Alexa Cook receives the 2017 Ministry for Primary Industries Rongo award. Photo: Kotuku Media THE YEAR IN REVIEW 09 AWARDS and RECOGNITION 2017 Association for International 2018 New Zealand Radio Awards 2018 New York Festivals Awards Broadcasting Awards (AIBs) RNZ’s popular documentary series With entries from more than 30 International Presenter of the Year The 9th Floor won two major countries, the New York Festivals John Campbell categories at the 40th New Zealand Radio Awards recognise the very RNZ National’s Checkpoint presenter Radio Awards. In total RNZ won best in the world of radio, celebrating won the 2017 AIB International five categories and recently retired programming of the highest quality Presenter of the Year Award. radio legend, Lloyd Scott, was that is at the forefront of audio acknowledged by the industry for his innovation. 2018 Voyager Media Awards services to broadcasting in a career Gold Radio Winner Guyon Espiner Best Innovation in Digital spanning more than 50 years. Best Interview Storytelling Best Podcast Gold Radio Winner Paloma Migone rnz.co.nz/Great Southern TV and The 9th Floor Audio Podcast Series: The Lost Animation Research, NZ Wars: The Guyon Espiner/Tim Watkin Silver Award Jim Mora Stories of Ruapekapeka RNZ National Best Talk Show Host Best Coverage of a Major News Event Best Documentary Bronze Award Kim Hill rnz.co.nz – Election 2017 The 9th Floor Best Radio Personality Guyon Espiner/Tim Watkin 2017 New Zealand Agricultural RNZ National Bronze Award Kathryn Ryan Journalism Awards Best Talk Show Host AgResearch Science Writers Award: Best Daily or Weekly Feature First Alexa Cook, RNZ News and This Way Up Bronze Award Melody Thomas Carol Stiles, RNZ Country Life Simon Morton, Alison Ballance, Best Audio Podcasts: BANG! Richard Scott Red Meat Industry Journalism Award International Federation of RNZ National Alexa Cook, RNZ News Agricultural Journalists Awards Best Creative Feature Federated Farmers Broadcast Multi-award-winning rural reporter Voice of the Iceberg Journalism Award: First Alexa Cook took first place at the Alison Ballance, Marc Chesterman Carol Stiles, RNZ Country Life and IFAJ competition in The Netherlands, RNZ National Alexa Cook, RNZ News for her digital broadcast Mustering Best News or Sports Journalist MPI Rongo Award Courage. Benedict Collins Alexa Cook, RNZ News Alexa was also runner-up in the RNZ News Rural Women NZ Rural broadcast audio section for A High Services to New Zealand Connectivity Award Country Way of Life. Broadcasting Lloyd Scott Alexa Cook, RNZ News RNZ would like to acknowledge the valuable service of outgoing Chairman Richard Griffin. Richard served on the board for eight years from May 2010 until April 2018 and was an astute and effective chair and governor. During his seven years as Chairman RNZ grew audiences, diversified its content and developed a successful online strategy. Richard also played a key role in securing long-awaited funding increases in the 2017 and 2018 Budgets. Richard was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to broadcasting and the media industry in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours. 10 RNZ ANNUAL REPORT 2017–2018 The Radio New Zealand CHARTER PURPOSE: 1. As an independent public service broadcaster, the public radio company’s purpose is to serve the public interest. 2. Freedom of thought and expression are foundations of democratic society and the public radio company as a public service broadcaster plays an essential role in exercising these freedoms. 3. The public radio company fosters a sense of national identity by contributing to tolerance and understanding, reflecting and promoting ethnic, cultural, and artistic diversity and expression. 4. The public radio company provides reliable, independent, and freely accessible news and information. DELIVERY: 5. In achieving its purpose, the public radio company must endeavour to provide services of the highest quality, which — (a) are predominantly and distinctively of New Zealand: (b) inform, entertain, and enlighten the people of New Zealand: (c) are challenging, innovative, and engaging: (d) foster critical thought, and informed and wide-ranging debate: (e) stimulate, support, and reflect the diversity of cultural expression, including drama, comedy, literature, and the performing arts: (f) stimulate, support, and reflect a wide range of music, including New Zealand composition and performance: (g) reflect New Zealand’s cultural identity, including Māori language and culture: (h) provide awareness of the world and of New Zealand’s place in it: (i) provide comprehensive, independent, accurate, impartial, and balanced regional, national, and international news and current affairs: (j) provide programmes which balance special interest with those of wide appeal, recognising the interests of all age groups: (k) contribute towards intellectual and spiritual development: (l) include an international service to the South Pacific in both English and Pacific languages: (m) take account of services provided by other broadcasters: (n) take advantage of the most effective means of delivery: (o) preserve and archive broadcasting material of historical interest. OUR CHARTER 11 TE TŪTOHINGA MENGĀ MĀTĀPONO o Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa TE PŪTAKE: 1. Nā runga i tana tū hei kaipāpāho ratonga tūmatanui motuhake, ko te pūtake o te kamupene reo irirangi tūmatanui he ū ki ngā take whai tikanga ki a ngāi tūmatanui. 2. Ko te noho herekore o te mana whakaaro me te mana whakapuaki hei tūāpapa mō te pāpori manapori, ā, nā runga i tana tū hei kaipāpāho ratonga tūmatanui, he tūranga mātuatua tō te kamupene reo irirangi tūmatanui hei kaiwhakaū i ēnei mana. 3. Ka whakatītina te kamupene reo irirangi tūmatanui i tētahi tuakiri ā-motu mā te whakaū i ngā tikanga o te noho manawa nui me te māramatanga, otirā, ka whakaatu, ka whakatairanga
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