Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: About Radio NZ's new "millennial" venture, The Wireless https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300293#post300293 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300293#post300293 the announcers sound like real people talking to you, as another person.

Reminds me of the former 2ZB, before it became subsumed and homogenised into the Newstalk ZB network.

Isn’t the commercial radio landscape in NZ yet another textbook symptom of a cartelised industry, given how cheaply the FM spectrum…

]]> Wed, 06 Nov 2013 11:35:29 +1300 Brent Jackson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300238#post300238 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300238#post300238 ... but when the announcers start talking we just have to turn it off as it is so mind numbing

I'm pretty much the same with most radio stations. KiwiFM is the big exception for me – the announcers sound like real people talking to you, as another person.

]]> Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:07:48 +1300 Jason Kemp https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300156#post300156 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300156#post300156 All hail to the autochthons :) I was there too back when computers cost more than cars.

I find commercial radio quite distressing in that the announcing teams seem to delight in being vapid and shallow. Miss 12 likes the music on one channel but when the announcers start talking…

]]> Tue, 05 Nov 2013 13:35:28 +1300 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300035#post300035 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300035#post300035 Learn a new word every day...

autochthon
n. pl. au·toch·thons or au·toch·tho·nes (-th-nz)
1. One of the earliest known inhabitants of a place; an aborigine.
2. Ecology An indigenous plant or animal.

]]> Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:05:53 +1300 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300015#post300015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=300015#post300015 Radio is a niche ,medium and unlikely to grow in future. This is the right approach for public media in the youth market. Fixating on broadcast radio on actual radio waves is a mistake.

On another note, while many of my contempories might be migrants, I'm a goddam autochthon in…

]]> Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:07:00 +1300 Tom Semmens https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299942#post299942 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299942#post299942 I do hope this website initiative isn't the justification to never revisit the concept of a youth radio network

Exactly!

How can you have a radio station that doesn't broadcast on a radio frequency? It isn't actually a radio station, it is a youth orientated web site. Calling it a…

]]> Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:57:24 +1300 Hebe https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299937#post299937 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299937#post299937 Sun, 03 Nov 2013 20:17:42 +1300 andin https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299912#post299912 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299912#post299912 After graduating from being insufferable hippies, Lucy's parents embarked on their careers. As the 70s, 80s, and 90s rolled along, the world entered a time of unprecedented economic prosperity. Lucy's parents did even better than they expected to.

And thus the problems facing that generation were easily ignored, and compounded…

]]> Sat, 02 Nov 2013 20:08:08 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299859#post299859 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299859#post299859 tattoos and not having a landline help

fecking hipsters

]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:03:11 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299858#post299858 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299858#post299858 For them, the ability to copy and repeat is just a given

Live gigs must be a real novelty.

]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:01:16 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299857#post299857 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299857#post299857 dating in NYC

how useful :)

]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 20:00:30 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299816#post299816 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299816#post299816 The Wireless Saturday Morning takeover!
Saturday Morning with Megan Whelan and TheWireless.co.nz: 2 November 2013 Kim Hill is on leave.

8:15 Intro: The Wireless.co.nz
8:20 Cecile Richards: family planning
8:45 Andrew Jack: censorship
8:55 Ruby Brunton: dating in NYC
9:05 Di White: crime, justice and theatre
9:25 James Robinson: voyaging…

]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 13:56:01 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299800#post299800 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299800#post299800 Mike Dickison made the interesting observation on Twitter this morning that some of us have been on the internet longer than some millennials have been alive. I've been publishing to the internet for 20 years.

But there is something different about it always having been a reality. My younger son,…

]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 11:50:39 +1300 Euan Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299770#post299770 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299770#post299770 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:33:23 +1300 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299759#post299759 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299759#post299759 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:53:47 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299756#post299756 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299756#post299756 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:40:52 +1300 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299755#post299755 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299755#post299755 As a migrant (wtf) I'd also like to welcome thewireless – looks great

I do hope this website initiative isn't the justification to never revisit the concept of a youth radio network – something that for the time being still has much merit (and much to fear).

]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 09:39:35 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299750#post299750 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299750#post299750 How millennial are you?

Protip: tattoos and not having a landline help.

At the BBs and Ms. Tending to BB......Must be the Centennial end...

]]> Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:27:39 +1300 Kumara Republic https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299745#post299745 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299745#post299745 Fri, 01 Nov 2013 02:25:30 +1300 Geoff Lealand https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299739#post299739 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299739#post299739 Excellent news. I have hammered on for a long time about the need for Nat Rad to be doing more to draw in a younger audience and a little less for the audience which is rapidly shuffling off to the rest home (no more Matinee Idle, please!!!)
But we need…

]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 23:32:52 +1300 Megan Whelan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299737#post299737 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299737#post299737 I DID like the division of the populace I heard recently (RNZ???) The Natives and Migrants. The Natives are the Millennnials, those who were born into the digital world (<35 yrs) , Migrants who have (had to) move(d) into it. (>35 yrs). Cute……but sadly true….

How millennial are you?

Protip: tattoos and not having a landline help.

]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:58:27 +1300 Megan Whelan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299736#post299736 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299736#post299736 As always the key will be in creating content that connects which is as we all know remarkably difficult.

Yes, and we're certainly not the only people trying to do that. But we're being guided by some really solid research about what people care about. And we've set ourselves the…

]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:56:39 +1300 Gareth Swain https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299735#post299735 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299735#post299735 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:50:15 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299732#post299732 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299732#post299732 I DID like the division of the populace I heard recently (RNZ???) The Natives and Migrants. The Natives are the Millennnials, those who were born into the digital world (<35 yrs) , Migrants who have (had to) move(d) into it. (>35 yrs). Cute……but sadly true….

So this is Nat-ive Radio at it’s best !

]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 22:33:34 +1300 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299726#post299726 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299726#post299726 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:44:13 +1300 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299724#post299724 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299724#post299724 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:04:09 +1300 Alastair Thompson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299720#post299720 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299720#post299720 Hey Megan! Congratulations.

Great post. And an auspicious start. 354 Twitter followers already on @thewirelessnz. ( after this comment I will see if I can figure out how to post a picture of the launch in this thread.)

The content strategy behind what you are doing there looks great to…

]]> Thu, 31 Oct 2013 20:33:20 +1300 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299712#post299712 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299712#post299712 Thu, 31 Oct 2013 19:19:23 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299711#post299711 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-about-radio-nzs-new-millennial-venture/?p=299711#post299711 Discussion from blog post.

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