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Discourse › the on-air slice

This week on the airwaves

What talk radio and political podcasts covered, who held the microphone, and where the on-air agenda ran ahead of — or apart from — print. Built from diarised transcripts with voice-level speaker attribution, on the same canonical topics as the other lenses.

Every episode here is already counted in the Discourse lens — this page isolates the talk-radio & podcast share: 122 of 704 discourse items this period (17%).

285
Episodes ingested
124
Political episodes
33.6hrs
Political airtime
28.6hrs
Attributed speech
228
Identified voices

The shows

Political episode volume per tracked show for Last 7 days, with the 12-week trend. Editorial lean from the source-orientation register.

Access to the microphone

Voice-attributed speaking time for everyone who isn't a show host, next to the gap between being talked about and being heard from. Attribution comes from the reviewed voice-reference library; unidentified speakers aren't counted.

Who got the mic
Attributed speaking minutes, non-host voices
Alika Wells Green Party 104.2m
Christopher Luxon National Party 42.8m
Show hosts held 10.4 hours (36%) of all attributed airtime and are excluded from this board.
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Talked about vs heard from
Episodes naming a person vs episodes carrying their voice
mentioned in heard in
Chris Hipkins 28 · 10
David Seymour 16 · 12
A zero on the right is a right-of-reply gap: named across the week's episodes without once being heard.
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Where air and print diverge

Topics living only on the airwaves this period, and stories that surfaced on air before the written corpus caught up.

On air, not in print
Discussed on tracked shows · zero written items this period
Mental Fitness In Rural Farming
“practical support for farm worker wellbeing”
3 seg · 1 show 0 print
Visitor Infrastructure Investment
“practical use of funds for local needs”
3 seg · 2 shows 0 print
Australian Excise Tax Rebate For Brewers
“a trade imbalance disadvantaging nz brewers”
2 seg · 1 show 0 print
Cost Of Living And Fiscal Policy
“criticized for selective commitment”
2 seg · 2 shows 0 print
Council Development Contributions
“government response to infrastructure cost recovery”
2 seg · 2 shows 0 print
False Political Promises
“promises without real action to avoid political risk”
2 seg · 1 show 0 print
Weekly candidate leads. The stricter 6-week radio-exclusives board (≥3 items across ≥2 shows) lives on the Insights page.
Air → print
First surfaced on air, then picked up by the written corpus
Tiktok Influence On Politics
On air
The Detail (RNZ) · Sun 6 Sep
In print
4 pieces · from Sun 6 Sep
Pisa Science Score Improvement
On air
rnz-morning-report · Tue 8 Sep
In print
4 pieces · from Tue 8 Sep
Topics whose first corpus sighting was on a tracked show, with written pickup afterwards — the airwaves acting as the assignment desk.

Same story, different mic

How each show framed the same topic, from per-segment framing analysis of the transcripts.

Labour-National Polling Decline 4 on-air · 13 written
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive (Newstalk ZB)
Right
“growing voter skepticism due to policy silence”
rnz-morning-report
Government / N-A
“worsening public support”
Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive (Newstalk ZB)
Right
“fair and transparent regional allocation”
rnz-morning-report
Government / N-A
“a revenue source targeted at foreign visitors”

Quotable — heard on air

Verbatim voice-attributed turns by sitting MPs on tracked shows this period, with timestamps and playback pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts. Each speaker is confirmed manually from their voice clip.

  • Vanushi Walters Labour Party rnz-morning-report Weekly Political Panel: Nicola Willis and Vanushi Walters 8 Sep · at 11:34 · 61s
    Yeah, well, so firstly, um I'd say New Zealanders really can't afford three more years of this government. They've done not a thing to fix the increasing prices at the supermarket. And we also have a govern um a government department under this government who are telling New Zealanders that food is not an essential item, which is just beggars belief really. Um and as you say, Nicola's been talking…
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Method & fair dealing. Quotes are diarised transcript turns attributed by voice matching and reviewed before publication. Display is limited to a short excerpt; full audio streams from the originating broadcaster and is subject to takedown suppressions.