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The Edge (radio Station)
The Edge is a youth-oriented New Zealand entertainment brand consisting of a national radio network and an entertainment website. It is owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand. It previously had a TV channel, The Edge TV. The station was founded in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton in 1994 and is now based in Auckland; it broadcasts nationwide over multiple channels. Research International audience surveys suggest The Edge has approximately 581,200 listeners across all markets that are surveyed and the station makes up 7.0% of the New Zealand radio market. The network is most successful in Waikato, Rotorua and Nelson, New Zealand, Nelson surveys and in the 15–19 and 10–14 female demographics, whereas rival station ZM (New Zealand), ZM is most popular with listeners aged between 20 and 34. The station's breakfast programme is number two in the ratings for nationwide commercial breakfast radio; its 240,000 listeners compare with 325,600 listeners for the top-rating Newsta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Contemporary Hit Radio
Contemporary hit radio (CHR, also known as contemporary hits, hit list, current hits, hit music, top 40, or pop radio) is a radio format common in many countries that focuses on playing current and recurrent popular music as determined by the Top 40 Record chart, music charts. There are several subcategories, dominantly focusing on rock music, rock, pop music, pop, or Urban contemporary, urban music. Used alone, ''CHR'' most often refers to the CHR-pop format. The term ''contemporary hit radio'' was coined in the early 1980s by ''Radio & Records'' magazine to designate Top 40 stations which continued to play hits from all musical genres as pop music splintered into Adult contemporary music, adult contemporary, Urban contemporary music, urban contemporary, Contemporary Christian music, contemporary Christian and other formats. The term "top 40" is also used to refer to the actual list of hit songs, and, by extension, to refer to pop music in general. The term has also been modifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ThreeLife + 1
Three (), stylised as +HR=E, is a New Zealand nationwide television channel. Launched on 26 November 1989 as TV3, it was New Zealand's first privately owned television channel. The channel currently broadcasts nationally (with regional advertising targeting four markets) in digital free-to-air form via the state-owned Kordia on terrestrial and satellite. Vodafone also carries the channel for their cable subscribers in Wellington and Christchurch. It previously broadcast nationally on analogue television until that was switched off on 1 December 2013. Three is a general entertainment channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery New Zealand, with a news element under the banner of ThreeNews. Three carries a significant amount of local content, most of which airs at prime-time. History Establishment Applications to apply for warrants to operate New Zealand's third national television network opened in early 1985 and closed on 29 March 1985. There were four regional channel warrant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Boyce
Ben Boyce is a New Zealand television and radio personality and comedian best known as the host of TV shows '' Pulp Sport'', '' Wanna-Ben'' and '' Jono and Ben'' on TV3. Biography Boyce is a graduate of the New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT (now Ara Institute of Canterbury). He was also the co-founder of New Zealand political party the Bill and Ben Party, which ran for government in the 2008 New Zealand general election and received over 13,000 votes, making it New Zealand's ninth most popular political party (out of 19). Boyce started out writing radio commercials, such as the popular Novus Windscreens "Show Us Your Crack" jingle. He then moved on to radio announcing, creating ''Pulp Sport'' on Radio Sport and later doing the night show on The Rock FM. Boyce created and starred in seven series of ''Pulp Sport''. The show began as a small cult show made in a garden shed to become one of New Zealand's most successful comedy shows. The show ran for seven series on T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jono Pryor
Jonathan Richard Pryor is an American-born New Zealand radio, television personality, and actor, best known as the co-host of '' Jono and Ben''. Pryor worked for The Rock radio station for over 15 years, before moving to The Edge in 2017 to co-host ''The Edge Afternoons with Jono, Ben & Sharyn'' with Ben Boyce Ben Boyce is a New Zealand television and radio personality and comedian best known as the host of TV shows '' Pulp Sport'', '' Wanna-Ben'' and '' Jono and Ben'' on TV3. Biography Boyce is a graduate of the New Zealand Broadcasting School at ... and Sharyn Casey. Pryor starred in ''Amped'' and '' The Jono Project'' on C4, before he began co-hosting ''Jono and Ben at Ten'' on Three (New Zealand), Three alongside Boyce in 2012. In 2015, the show moved to prime time at 7:30pm, re-branded as ''Jono and Ben''. The show was cancelled at the end of 2018. Pryor along with Ben Boyce and Megan Papas host the breakfast show on The Hits (radio station), The Hits. In 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Cotton
Joanne Monique "Joe" Cotton, is a Canadian-born New Zealand pop singer who gained recognition as a member of the girl group TrueBliss, formed in 1999 on ''Popstars''. Cotton has since joined a cover band, The Mermaids Danceband. She has also worked as a radio presenter, for More FM and The Edge. Biography Cotton was born in Vancouver, Canada. She relocated with her family to Wellington, New Zealand in 1985. She has one brother, Paul Cotton, who was a member of popular kiwi Christian rock groupthe Lads Her niece, Hope Cotton, is also a prominent advocate within the Disability and LGBTQ+ spaces. She studied music throughout her time at Wellington Girls' College leaving at the start of her seventh form year to do a three-year diploma in Rock and Commercial music at Whitireia Community Polytechnic. Joe enjoyed performing from an early age and during fifth form her school choir attended the Australasian Choral Championships which they were the joint winners of. In late 1998 sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharyn Casey
Sharyn Mary-Ellen Casey (''née'' Wakefield; born 24 December 1985) is a radio and TV host. She has hosted The Edge's drive show, the New Zealand version of ''Dancing with the Stars'', and was a celebrity panelist on '' The Masked Singer NZ''. Early life Casey was born on 24 December 1985 in Porirua, before moving to Waimate, where she attended Waimate Main School, and later Timaru, where she spent most of her childhood and attended Gleniti School. At 13, she moved to Christchurch, where she attended Avonside Girls' High School; she later moved to Wellington and attended Tawa College. From an early age, she was interested in radio and pop culture and music. She left school at the age of 15 and worked at Smiths City, and later at Woolworths supermarket for 6 months. While working in the signing tent for record store Sounds at Edgefest, she was inspired by Sounds marketing manager Shaun Joyce to pursue a job in radio; she applied for radio school the next day and went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Reeves (radio Broadcaster)
Jason Reeves (born May 1976, Hastings) is a radio broadcaster and television presenter from New Zealand. He currently co-hosts the breakfast show on The Coast (New Zealand). He has previously worked for other stations such as Auckland's Classic Hits 97.4, The Edge and for ZM. Career Reeves began his radio career in 1994 at the age of 18 after leaving Karamu High School, and worked on Hot 93FM in Hawkes Bay. He remained there until 1996, when he moved to another Hawkes Bay Station, Xtreme 100. In 1997, he moved to Hamilton to work on the then local station, The Edge, originally on the drive time show, but moved to the breakfast show with Jay-Jay Feeney in 1998. Reeves worked at The Edge as it progressed from a local Hamilton station to a nationwide network station based in Auckland, which happened in late 2001. At the end of 2004, Reeves left The Edge, reportedly as a result of a prank carried out by his breakfast co-hosts Jay-Jay Feeney and Dominic Harvey. Jay Jay and Do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Puru
Mike Puru (born 20 August 1975) is a New Zealand television personality, radio host and weather presenter. Puru worked at the New Zealand radio station The Edge (radio station), The Edge from 1995 until 2015 and hosted the first two seasons of ''The Bachelor New Zealand'' on Three (New Zealand), TV3. He co-hosted the breakfast television, morning television show ''The Café (New Zealand TV program), The Cafe'' along with Mel Homer from 2016 until 2020. Mike previously hosted the Flava (radio station), Flava breakfast show alongside Stacey Morrison, Azura Lane and previously Anika Moa. Before this, Puru along with Morrison and Moa hosted the afternoon show on The Hits (New Zealand), The Hits radio station. Since 2024 Puru has been hosting the weekday morning show for the New Zealand radio network The Breeze (New Zealand radio station), The Breeze. Early life Michael Puru was born on 20 August 1975 in Gore, New Zealand, Gore, a town and district in the Southland region in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay-Jay Feeney
Jay-Jay Feeney (previously Jay-Jay Harvey; born 28 March 1974) is a New Zealand media personality, podcast studio director and former radio host. She previously was a co-host for More FM's drive show, ''Jay-Jay & Flynny Driving You Home'', with Paul Flynn. She has spent the majority of her career at The Edge, mostly on its breakfast show, until she left in December 2017. Feeney currently is a director for PodLab. Early life Feeney was born Jacqulyn-Joanne Barbara Feeney on 28 March 1974, to Robynne Andersen. Her mother Robynne married Gary Feeney who later raised Feeney as his own daughter even though Robynne and Gary separated when Jay-Jay was four years old. When Feeney was 37 years old she found her biological father on social media. Since meeting him, she has acquired five more half-siblings to then finding out that she has ten in total. She grew up in Hamilton and New Plymouth. She changed her name via Deed Poll in 2014 from Jacqulyn-Joanne to Jay-Jay. Career Feeney beg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rova (app)
MediaWorks New Zealand is a New Zealand-based company specialising in radio, outdoor advertising and interactive media. It is owned by Australian out-of-home advertising company QMS. It operates eight national radio brands, eleven websites and one locally operated radio station. On 1 December 2020, MediaWorks sold its entire television division, MediaWorks TV to Discovery, Inc. and the subsidiary company, MediaWorks TV Limited was renamed Discovery NZ Limited (now Warner Bros. Discovery NZ Limited). Oaktree Capital Management formerly held a 45% stake in Mediaworks. On the 7th of April 2025, it was announced that QMS had purchased this share taking full control of the company. History Television MediaWorks TV was created in 2004 following the merger of TVWorks and RadioWorks, and owned the nationwide free-to-air television channels TV3 and C4. On 7 September 2020, MediaWorks confirmed that it would be selling its entire television arm including Three, Bravo, The Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Mansell
Megan Mansell (née Annear; born 24 July 1990) is a New Zealand broadcaster. She is a co-host on ''The Edge Breakfast with Clint, Meg & Dan''. Early life Mansell was born on 24 July 1990 in Lower Hutt. She studied at the New Zealand Broadcasting School at Ara Institute of Canterbury, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Career Mansell started her radio career co-hosting the breakfast show on Classic Hits in Queenstown. In 2013, she began hosting The Edge Workdays of Awesome on radio station The Edge David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), better known as the Edge or simply Edge,McCormick (2006), pp. 21, 23–24 is a British-Irish musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist o .... In late 2017, she became a co-host of ''The Edge Breakfast with Dom, Meg & Randell'', with Dom Harvey and Clint Randell. In the 2020 New Zealand Radio Awards her team of breakfast hosts were finalists for Best Breakfast Show – Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand (), commonly known as RNZ or Radio NZ, is a New Zealand public service broadcaster and Crown entity. Established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995, it operates news and current affairs station, RNZ National, and a classical music and jazz station, RNZ Concert, with full government funding from NZ On Air. Since 2014, the organisation's focus has been to transform from a radio broadcaster to a multimedia outlet, increasing its production of digital content in audio, video, and written forms, utilising rnz.co.nz and the RNZ app. The organisation plays a central role in New Zealand public broadcasting. The New Zealand Parliament fully funds its AM network, used in part for the broadcast of parliamentary proceedings. RNZ has a statutory role under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 to act as a "lifeline utility" in emergencies. It is also responsible for an international service, RNZ Pacific, which broadcasts to the South Pacific in both ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
