Today FM launch: 'We don’t want to be about anger'

Today FM launch: 'We don’t want to be about anger'
Dallas Gurney, director of news and talk at MediaWorks. (Image: supplied)
Daniel Dunkley
At MediaWorks headquarters in Auckland, employees at Today FM are ready for a grilling. The station’s new hosts, including former Newshub political editor Tova O’Brien, are hard at work conducting mock interviews with staffers as they prepare to hit the airwaves next week. After weeks of delays, the station goes live on Monday.With one eye on Newstalk ZB’s talkback crown and another on RNZ’s more centrist listener base, MediaWorks wants to set the daily news agenda with its refreshed radio platform.Dallas Gurney, di...

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