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Newstalk ZB
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- legacy media
- talkback hosts
64 kbps · AAC+ · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language
- English
- Format
- AAC+
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- newstalkzb.co.nz
Position 6 of 67 in New Zealand. The ordering is a click count and nothing more, but at this depth it still separates stations meaningfully, which stops being true further down the same list.
Among 67 stations in New Zealand here, this is the only one that puts legacy media first. The legacy media rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.
At 64 kbps this is one of the lowest rate streams on New Zealand's dial, whose median is 128 kbps. It will hold a connection almost anywhere, which is the tradeoff being made.
Newstalk ZB publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.
11 of New Zealand's entries are served from playerservices.streamtheworld.com, this one among them. A shared host means a shared fate. If this stream is silent, the fastest check is not this station's own site but whether its neighbours on the same platform are playing.
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by Newstalk ZB. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.newstalkzb.co.nz.
This address is a second listing of the same station in the same country. Newstalk ZB is the entry the directory records more plays against, so it is the one we ask search engines to index. This page keeps working and the stream on it is the one listed here.
Station details come from the public radio-browser directory and are reproduced as recorded there. If you run this station and something here is wrong, or you would rather the page did not exist, write to us from the support page and we will fix or remove it.
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