The final minutes of TodayFM being on the air

Today FM falls silent as owner MediaWorks loses its nerve in the battle with Newstalk ZB and tells staff it's over.

Media crises and closures don't come more brutal than what occurred live on Today FM on Thursday morning as hosts Duncan Garner and Tova O'Brien told listeners the year-long talk radio experiment was over.

About 9.20am, as an all-staff meeting at the MediaWorks-owned channel was happening around him, Garner said the breakfast host O'Brien and members of the newsroom were walking into his studio and the news wasn't good.

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[bigrathole]

"They've F*cked Us" is the quote of the year.

[mrdaxtercrane]

Their audience was outnumbered to ZB 7:1, still dropping, on a sinking media business too. How on earth did they think this was a 5 year plan?

[rwd]

I feel for all of them but Tova made a fool of herself during the Covid days, never respected her after that

[MaskMasterEsquire]

Quick, get the Govt Public Interest Journalism fund on the line...hello, this is Duncan and Tova, can we have some money? What do you mean we're not Maori enough? But we've been saying what we were told to say. Can we have some money please? What did you say? We need to start a vaccine clinic with Hone...but we've always been good 🦜 ng heads, please give us some putia, please, please, plllleasseee, hello, hello😢

What about me, it isn't fair, I've had enough now I want my share😢

[lavcrewman]

"Let's get Polly Gillespie on the phone" 😂😂😂 I wonder why this is happening

[greyhamlogan]

I have no reason to feel sorry for any of them. They were all one-eyed political commentators who somehow managed to get even worse.

[winterrising]

i love the tears flowing. Cry more, this is karma for all your bias propaganda.

[stephenhoward]

Tova next one try to be passionate on Both Sides not just Your Side.

[mark]

I will miss the station, thank you and all the best

[mariag]

Sad times... Not as sad all those that got fired for not taking an experimental medical treatment, tho...

[benking]

#they’ve fucked us, first time today I heard about this today fm, I would have listened if I knew they were out there but sounds like mediaworks dropped the ball on advertising this new station