It's time for the Hauraki Breakfast team to present this week's award to 4 dead birds.

If I do anything in the various non-journalistic roles I have, it's to promote good people and good ideas and good outcomes, writes Mike Hosking.

The latest episode of ZM's Ladies of NZ sees our heroines completing in a nail art contest and growing closer together ... well most of them, that is.

Filming has begun on ZM's reality show Ladies of New Zealand, with tension already mounting between Mary Haddock-Staniland and 22-year-old Chantelle Baker.

Comedian and columnist Verity Johnson explains why Dom Harvey's 'Cucumber Number' game was not funny.

Australian prisoners could become radio hosts in a novel approach to rehabilitation, a university study says.

Former Bachelor contestant has spoken out against Edge shock jock Dom Harvey and his on-air antics.

The Radio Hauraki team embarked on the legendary No Sleep Til Breakfast 24-hour bender, going from one breakfast radio show to the next with no sleep - and plenty of partying.

When the Peters-Hosking stoush erupted, many must have asked themselves: whose side should I take or, for that matter, do I have a dog in this fight?

They may have announced their marriage break-up on live radio, but this weekend The Hits hosts Polly Gillespie and Grant Kerema will face something even scarier - a night in a haunted house.

Former Black Caps bowler Simon Doull will swap the jetset lifestyle for a quick pre-dawn blast up the Waikato Expressway when he starts work on The Crowd Goes Wild breakfast show.

She's worked with the likes of Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Lorde and Pamela Anderson but now celebrity nail artist Leah Light is stepping into the spotlight, joining ZM's reality show Ladies of NZ.

Spy can today reveal Christchurch fashionista Chantelle Baker is among the quartet. The 22-year-old runs her own fashion store and is casually dating.

On Thursday the Hauraki Breakfast crew are going to try another all-night party-a-thon before going on air the next morning.

Fans of The Hits DJs Polly Gillespie and Grant Kereama have reacted with shock and sadness to their unexpected split.

Rachel Smalley won't back down in her call for more diversity in prime time radio, but the six men who she says dominate the airwaves won't be drawn into the debate.

Bravo Media has sent ZM a cease and desist notice, saying a name for its competition was too close to that of its popular US reality series.

"I've been called sexist, nasty and sour but I won't budge in the face of abuse: we need more women on prime-time radio."

Radio New Zealand has taken Mary Wilson off air to make room for a new show "with a visual element" featuring John Campbell, writes John Drinnan.

We're introducing yet another white male broadcaster to prime time, at the expense of a strong, experienced female interviewer, says Rachel Smalley.

John Campbell is joining Radio New Zealand as a drive-time news and current affairs presenter.

Jay-Jay says she's "always been one of those people who has been insecure" and reached her lowest point in Mexico earlier this year.

War correspondent Steve Braunias files a chilling excerpt from the diary of an unfortunate victim of PC Gone Mad.

She used to be naughty and not nice, but now the broadcaster is living a much more proper life ... although there is the matter of the stationery.

"It's not about Dom, it's not about Chrystal, it's about us, you and I - what are we doing? For the love of God, it is just cruel, it is just unkind."

Radio host and Dancing With the Stars competitor Jay-Jay Harvey has broken her silence to speak out in support of her husband.

It has been a long time since anything happened to make us think fears for the future of free-to-air TV were misplaced, writes Paul Little.

The columnist and comedian will join Radio New Zealand. He's also worked as a food critic and Seven Sharp presenter.

The Radio Broadcasters Association has announced research company GfK will be the new provider for the commercial radio survey from 2016.

ZM has signed Australian radio and TV stars Hamish Blake and Andy Lee as the new hosts of its early morning breakfast show.