'Best Radio Website' award for Radio New Zealand
25 May 2009
Congratulations to Richard Hulse and the team at Radio New Zealand for their great use of open source technologies, especially MySource Matrix.
Commenting on the 'Best Radio Website' award, Radio New Zealand Chief Executive Peter Cavanagh said he was particularly pleased that the radio industry had recognized the success of their website, which had "revolutionized" the organisation’s relationship with its listeners in recent years.
“A huge volume of our programming can now be time-shifted by our listeners as audio-on-demand or downloaded as a podcast.
“In calendar year 2008, more than six million Radio New Zealand programmes were replayed through the internet.
“Many of those listeners were New Zealanders living and working overseas who were unable to listen to traditional live radio broadcasts.”
Radio New Zealand’s website at www.radionz.co.nz also won the ‘Open Source use in Government’ category at the 2008 New Zealand Open Source awards.
Contact: Patrick FitzGerald
Phone: +64 4 805 0098