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Speaker 1: It's important, I think, to start the day with some

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Speaker 1: good news. The good news from an industry you might

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Speaker 1: have read that has been creating a little bit of

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Speaker 1: bad news. Of the media has troubles. Newsrooms are being closed,

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Speaker 1: programs are being canceled, people are being laid off. Losses

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Speaker 1: are mounting hands around for help. Please are being made

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Speaker 1: for you to see what some do on the local

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Speaker 1: landscapers being important. Yes, and it's been a bad year.

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Speaker 1: But against that backdrop, the radio industry got together last

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Speaker 1: night to hand out a few gongs and remind us

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Speaker 1: all that there are no shortage indeed of success stories.

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Speaker 1: This is the best station in the country, not just that,

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Speaker 1: but awarded the title last night for the fourth year

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Speaker 1: in a row. The show has the best producers in

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Speaker 1: the game. This show has the best newsreader. This station

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Speaker 1: has the best sports bloke on the weekends, the eclectic

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Speaker 1: guy at night from Bluff One for about the eighth

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Speaker 1: year in a row, and the news team were recognized

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Speaker 1: for their Gabriel coverage as well. More broadly, this company

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Speaker 1: picked up an outsized number of awards in the competition,

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Speaker 1: and that is the bit that's not to be forgotten.

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Speaker 1: Radio in this country is still, as far as I know,

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Speaker 1: the most competitive market per head of population in the world.

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Speaker 1: We have a pile of radio stations, all chasing the audience,

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Speaker 1: all chasing the dollar. What radio is is an example

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Speaker 1: of how a market evolves, As the Prime Minister would say,

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Speaker 1: While some of the media grapple with change, radio did

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Speaker 1: a lot of its changing a couple of decades back,

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Speaker 1: with deregulation and the arrival of FM. We worked out

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Speaker 1: what the audiences wanted and gave it to them. It's

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Speaker 1: ever evolving, of course, but in a media landscape of

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Speaker 1: so much upheaval, there are plenty still doing fine, thank you,

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Speaker 1: and that needs to be better told. Part of the

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Speaker 1: problem with the media irony of ironies is their predilection

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Speaker 1: for the negative. There are more media stories of success

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Speaker 1: than there are of woe, but you don't hear those.

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Speaker 1: This show, on this station, in this company is killing it. Now,

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Speaker 1: that's not skiting. It's maybe just balancing the ledger a bit.

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Speaker 1: So you are listening to the best in the business.

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Speaker 1: But you knew that, didn't you see? Just a couple

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Speaker 1: of judges backed it up with a bit of silver

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Speaker 1: were last night for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast.

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Speaker 1: Listen live to News Talk Set B from six a m. Weekdays,

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