Breaking: NZ’s Today FM hosts abruptly taken off air and told to play music...
The Mediaworks' radio station Today FM abandoned scheduling this morning when presenters broke from programming to question the future of their employer.
Broadcasters told their audience they were going off air and had been instructed to play music.
Today FM hosts Duncan Garner and Tova O'Brien told listeners before 9am the station and staff were being cut.
"We've been told to play music."
"This is it, folks."
While still on-air O'Brien said the station had not been given a chance.
Staff had been told they had the support of the chief executive, the board, the executive "and they have f.....d us", she said.
Garner responded: "This is betrayal."
The Mediaworks' radio station Today FM abandoned scheduling this morning when presenters broke from programming to question the future of their employer.
Broadcasters told their audience they were going off air and had been instructed to play music.
Today FM hosts Duncan Garner and Tova O'Brien told listeners before 9am the station and staff were being cut.
"We've been told to play music."
"This is it, folks."
While still on-air O'Brien said the station had not been given a chance.
Staff had been told they had the support of the chief executive, the board, the executive "and they have f.....d us", she said.
Garner responded: "This is betrayal."
