newstalk
Noun
Meaning
newstalk (plural newstalks)
(broadcasting) A television or radio programme in which host conversation with guests or audience members is mixed with news programming.
Examples
Director of operations Norma Lane told Newstalk ZB that sadly, the numbers reflected a culture with alcohol and drug issues.
Police Commissioner Mike Bush joins Newstalk ZB’s Mike Hosking to discuss police clamping down on people flouting coronavirus lockdown rules.
While many of the early-release people might not be found to be infectious now, that did not mean they were not infectious at the time, he told Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking.
Broadcaster Ivan Yates’s disparaging comment, particularly the line “It’s only for snobs anyway”, on his Newstalk radio programme outraged the music community, and began a flurry of debate on social media.
Susan, who has an MBA from the University of Otago, also worked for many years as stand in host on Newstalk ZB’s Breakfast and Drive programmes.
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn told Jonathan Healy on Newstalk radio on Tuesday 25 March immediately after the Garda Commissioner’s resignation that the Justice Minister too “should walk the plank.