Composer Claire Cowan said RNZ was turning Concert into an automated jukebox type service. “ Now the issue moves on beyond the securing of the frequency, which has happened, to what is the fate of the staff?

This has stirred up protest by … According to documents for staff, the move would eliminate 17 jobs at RNZ Concert including all presenter roles from late March. However, there's been a pushback from Concert fans, with thousands signing an online petition against the move. The protest events on Friday in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Nelson and Dunedin will be very important - be there, bring your friends and raise your voices. As for other aspects of Concert's future, RNZ has said it will work with staff on a new strategy to improve Concert's audience performance, which will ultimately determine the shape of the programme moving forward. Thompson said he met with staff in the music department to withdraw the proposal. On Wednesday, the proposal to restructure RNZ Concert was withdrawn.

Concert was "under-performing" and would need a new direction "irrespective of whether or not RNZ elects to launch a new music based service for new audiences", it said.

This service is provided for by taxpayers. I guarantee that if RNZ management go ahead with the decision to axe staff, audience numbers will fall through the floor, and a general apathy will seep in. Marc Taddei: RNZ destroying a success It operates a news and current-affairs network, RNZ National, and a classical-music and jazz network, RNZ Concert, with full government funding from NZ on Air. I want to make a comment about the accusation that RNZ concert is only for the old and elite.

Last night I attended a concert at the Gallagher concert chamber by Julliard 415, who Someone at RNZ thinks it is a good idea to turn off an older audience and cater for younger people by dumping the Concert programme (and 17 staff), and converting to something targeting a younger audience (who tend to live online). Concert was "under-performing" and would need a new direction "irrespective of whether or not RNZ elects to launch a new music based service for new audiences", it said. Someone at RNZ thinks it is a good idea to turn off an older audience and cater for younger people by dumping the Concert programme (and 17 staff), and converting to something targeting a younger audience (who tend to live online). On Wednesday, the proposal to restructure RNZ Concert was withdrawn. RNZ needed to attract younger and more ethnically diverse listeners both to fulfil its charter obligations and to secure its audience for the coming decades. RNZ said shifting Concert to the AM frequency would free up space for the broadcaster to build a new music brand for younger audiences. The business case envisaged Concert's staff would be cut to just two and that it would continue to be available via Sky TV, Freeview and over the internet.

What is the fate of the programming? RNZ said shifting Concert to the AM frequency would free up space for the broadcaster to build a new music brand for younger audiences.

A mong numerous RNZ staff spoken to by The Spinoff, a major concern was the framing of the issue as Concert v Youth.

The business case envisaged Concert's staff would be cut to just two and that it would continue to be available via Sky TV, Freeview and over the internet. That will take months and is a decision for RNZ to make. Radio New Zealand (Māori: Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa), commonly known as Radio NZ or simply RNZ, is a New Zealand public-service radio broadcaster and Crown entity that was established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995. The reasons for the proposed changes, Concert staff were initially told, was that RNZ was, “underperforming with younger audiences and with non-Pākehā communities”. RNZ has apparently walked back indefinitely from the proposal to make Concert staff redundant but we are watching developments that affect that irreplaceable team closely.

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