Manu Taylor has stepped down as station manager at the alternative radio station bFM.

Television newsrooms are "created by men, largely for men", a senior female BBC editor said yesterday, as some of the most prominent women in broadcasting lined up to condemn sexism and ageism in the industry.

A broadcaster took sufficient action after radio host Rachel Smalley was heard describing some woman as "heifers" and a "bunch of lardos", the BSA has found.

The Maori Language Commission says that it has approached TVNZ, TV3 and the MetService about using the Maori word for "tomorrow" in future weather broadcasts.

Ten years ago, Pita Sharples - now Minister of Maori Affairs - said he wanted to see an end to mangled te reo words used in Parliament and in mainstream media broadcasts.

The Taurima Inquiry has opened the door to questions about other journalists and whether their outside roles affect their independence.

The Taurima Inquiry has failed to take Television New Zealand to task for its biggest failing yet as a news operation with an oversight of politics, writes John Drinnan.

Shane Taurima was guilty of using TVNZ’s resources for political purposes, but there was no bias in programming, a review has found.

Sources expect that if Shane Taurima emerges badly from the bias inquiry, Julian Wilcox will put his name forward as a Labour party candidate.

Commercial radio networks have emerged from the latest radio ratings survey without any major upheaval for its DJs.

Newstalk ZB journalist Rachel Smalley has today issued a tearful apology after calling New Zealand women "heifers" and "lardos" while thinking her microphone was off yesterday.

'I'm Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tyrant, and this is my skybox'. The business and media magnate turns 83 today.

TVNZ is eyeing tougher new conflict of interest rules for employees following the resignation of broadcaster Shane Taurima, an inquiry into the case has heard.

Fifty years ago Beatlemania reigned supreme, Auckland's population hit 500,000, and four doyens of New Zealand broadcasting were born.

Australia's Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder has got a toe-hold on New Zealand's reality TV, buying Greenstone TV for an undisclosed sum.

The internet-based broadcaster that snatched English Premier League football away from Sky is now eyeing up the All Blacks and Super 15 rugby.

TVNZ's morning show Breakfast was forced off air after a contractor doing burnouts in the company's underground carpark set off a fire alarm.

RadioLive has taken a big hit in the latest Auckland radio ratings, losing about 40 per cent of its audience.

Millie Elder has tattooed a picture of her late father Paul Holmes on her thigh.

Guyon Espiner and Duncan Garner have done some intelligent television in their different ways. When they teamed up on TV3 for a programme billed "a new kind of current affairs", I looked forward to it.

Broadcasting veteran Phillip Leishman is gravely ill with an aggressive form of cancer that returned after an operation to remove a brain tumour.

The emasculation of the news and current affairs department, the shrinking of current affairs output, the saturation of primetime with cheap reality dross, imported formats for local talent shows.

It was bittersweet watching Sir Paul Holmes receive his knighthood at his home in Hawke's Bay this week.