The Electoral Commission last night confirmed it had banned TV and radio broadcasts of Wellington bluesman Darren "Guitar" Watson's musical attack on the PM.

The battle for the hearts and minds of music radio listeners is moving well beyond the airwaves - into television, online, social media and even at 30,000ft.

Radio host Mark Staufer has lost his job on RadioLive's late night talkback slot after using foul language on Friday night.

A late night talkback segment from radio host Mark Staufer that featured foul language has been pulled from RadioLive's website.

An original sketch by convicted sex offender Rolf Harris is being auctioned online to raise funds for Women's Refuge.

Auckland Transport mounts lively ad campaign, then undermines it by using shuttle vans to help staff get around instead of public transport.

I wish I could capture the eye-poking nature of the extreme torpor that permeates this show, but even the act of writing about it threatens to infuse it with some pizzazz, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Radio New Zealand has conceded there could be redundancies as a result of restructuring plans canvassed with staff today.

Radio New Zealand is expected to restructure management at the end off the month.

The 2014 NZ Radio Awards in Auckland.

A blossoming TV and radio career isn't the only good thing Zoe Marshall will leave behind when she boards a plane to Australia tomorrow.

The new voice of Radio NZ on Sunday mornings is a devoted people-watcher and big fan of Noam Chomsky

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

Christine Nikiel meets Auckland’s hottest female DJ and talks punk music and embroidery.

Money is money and nobody wants to look a gift horsepower in the mouth, writes John Drinnan. Mazda now owns sponsorship rights to 7pm shows from Sunday through to Friday.

For lapsed regular listeners like me the main interest was in the new presenter Guyon Espiner, writes John Drinnan. Espiner provided some long lost assertiveness

Radio New Zealand stalwart Geoff Robinson has signed off Morning Report for the final time after a last show filled with tributes.

Radio New Zealand's Morning Report stalwart Geoff Robinson has had his last day on air filled with tributes following more than 30 years in journalism.

If a broadcaster is reliant on advertisers and sponsors it will become, in some sense, beholden to them, and this will compromise its editorial independence, writes Sue Kedgley.

Former broadcaster John Tamihere's $600,000 legal battle with RadioLIVE could play out behind closed doors.