Hosking, Lush gonged at Radio Awards

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AUCKLAND, Last Night: The winners of the 2019 New Zealand Radio Awards have been announced at the awards ceremony at Sky City Theatre.

For the second year running, ZM has taken out one of the most sought-after awards with Best Music Breakfast Show Network’ with ZM’s Fletch, Vaughan & Megan.

The Edge with Jono, Ben & Sharyn claimed the award for Best Music Non-Breakfast Team Network. Best Music Non-Breakfast Host Network was won by Robert Scott from The Breeze.


The industry’s premier award for Outstanding Contribution to Radio was awarded to Simon Barnett.


Also for the second year in a row, Mike Hosking from Newstalk ZB was awarded Best Talk Presenter–Breakfast or Drive, and for the third consecutive year, Marcus Lush from Newstalk ZB was the successful winner of the Best Talk Presenter–Other category.

First place honours for Network Station of the Year went to ZM Network. Station of the Year–Non-Surveyed Market went to first-time winners Sun FM in Whakatane with More FM Manawatu awarded Station of the Year–Surveyed Market.

The industry’s premier award for Outstanding Contribution to Radio was awarded to Simon Barnett.

The show was presented by Meg Annear from MediaWorks & Megan Papas from NZME.


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