12 June 2006
Press Release: Radio New Zealand Limited

Radio New Zealand is to significantly extend the range of National Radio
programmes available via podcasting following a very successful three month
trial of the new service.

From Monday 12th June listeners will be able to download their favourite
interviews and programme segments from Nine to Noon and Afternoons with Jim
Mora directly from the Radio New Zealand website www.radionz.co.nz .

Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw featuring Insight and Mediawatch and The
Arts of Sunday will also be added to the list of daily and weekly podcasts
which already includes Saturday Morning with Kim Hill, This Way Up, Our
Changing World and Concert FM's Upbeat programme.

Announcing the extension of the service Radio New Zealand Chief Executive,
Peter Cavanagh, said the response to the podcasting trial had been nothing
short of phenomenal.

"Radio New Zealand is leading the way in using new web-based technology to
allow its listeners to hear their favourite programmes whenever and wherever
they want.

"Over the past three months we estimate that there have been 400,000
programme downloads from the Radio New Zealand website - and the popularity
of the new podcasting service is growing at more than 10% per week.

"The rapid growth in sales of iPods and MP3 players means that more and more
people are choosing to download their favourite radio programmes and listen
to them when they want to hear them - rather than being restricted to
listening live when we choose to broadcast them.

"Radio New Zealand's audio-on-demand and podcasting services have proved
particularly popular with New Zealanders living abroad who can now stay in
touch with news and issues from home by listening to their favourite shows
on the web. "

Radio New Zealand's website records more than half-a-million page
impressions each month, with about 60% of the traffic coming from overseas
audiences.

www.radionz.co.nz


And this from
http://m-net.net.nz/index.php?option...28&Item id=75

Radio NZ launches daily podcasts
Campbell Gardiner
Tuesday, 13 June 2006

Following a three month trial national broadcaster Radio New Zealand has
launched podcasts of some its daily programmes, including Nine to Noon,
Afternoons with Jim Mora and Nights with Bryan Crump. This is in addition to
weekly podcasts already offered by Radio New Zealand.

The podcasts are supported by an anycast cluster of New Zealand-based
servers and a US-based server.

New media manager Richard Hulse says there have been 400,000 podcast
downloads since February and downloads are growing at 10 per cent each week.

He says ISPs who don't peer with it in New Zealand may see an increase in
traffic on their international circuits. "For users it will be the same
quality as everyone else but download speeds may be limited by their ISP's
international connectivity."

The programmes vary in length and Radio New Zealand has segmented these so
users can download select pieces or the whole programme.

Radio New Zealand chief executive Peter Cavanagh says growth in sales of
iPods and MP3 players is driving use of podcasts and it is "leading the
way". "More and more people are choosing to download their favourite radio
programmes and listen to them when they want to hear them - rather than
being restricted to listening live when we choose to broadcast them."