23/5/16
Paul Henry Cleans Up At NZ Radio Awards, Story Secures Highest Audience To Date, TV3 Wins Friday Night
In a week of strong results for MediaWorks, the organisation’s staff, brands and presenters made a clean sweep of the
2016 NZ Radio Awards, being the most awarded network for the fifth year in a row by taking home 26 awards.
Paul Henry’s multi-platform success was demonstrated with Paul Henry taking out the Sir Paul Holmes Broadcaster of the Year Award,
as well as Best Talk Presenter – All Markets.
Topping an amazing year for the More FM Network, Christian Boston was named Best Content Director, the network won Best
Marketing Campaign and Best Single Market Station Promotion, and More FM Canterbury won Station of the Year – Surveyed
Market.
The Edge’s Jay Jay, Mike and Dom once again won Best Music Breakfast Show – Network, while The Edge also won Best
Network Station Promotion, Best Radio Website, Best Station Imaging, and Best Effective Commercial.
For a second time The Rock’ s Drive show Jono and Ben won Best Music Non-Breakfast Hosts, Best Video and Best Single
Station Client Campaign.
RadioLIVE also cleaned up in the News categories, with Hilary Barry named joint Best Newsreader, Lloyd Burr named Best
Journalist, and Best Team Coverage of a News Story awarded to RadioLIVE.
On Monday, TV3’s Story featured a harrowing investigation into the death of three-year-old Moko Rangitoheriri. Highlighting New Zealand’s
continuously poor record of child abuse, the investigation attracted the highest audience figures to date for Story, with hundreds of thousands of Kiwis watching, discussing or commenting on the case.
This was followed on Tuesday by Story once again out-performing competitor Seven Sharp in its target demographic of 25-54 year olds.
At the other end of the spectrum, the finale of reality romance programme Married At First Sightdominated its timeslot, winning in the 18-49 and 25-54 demographics. The double episode secured more than 449,000
viewers, and overall the season outperformed last year’s – with a total audience of more than 1.5 million viewers (up
more than 65,000 from 2015), 834,000 of these in 25-54 (up more than 124,000 from 2015).
TV3’s Friday comedy line-up once again won the night in 25-54, with Jono & Ben, 7 Days and Graham Norton winning their timeslots in the 18-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demographics.
ENDS