Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking quizzing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Michael CraigNewstalk ZB and ZM are the big winners in the latest radio ratings - hitting their highest-ever audiences. Newstalk increased its overall audience by nearly 74,000 listeners in the latest GfK Commercial Radio Audience survey - a reflection of high levels of news interest during the Covid-19 period. The latest increase in Newstalk ZB's nationwide audience takes the news and talk network's audience to more than 610,300 listeners, ZB's biggest audience since it was launched in 1987. Photo / FileNZME's broadcast audience growth has been mirrored on its digital audio platform iHeartRadio which recently clicked over a million registered users.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 13, 2020 00:00 UTC