Radio and Audio Media

Develop key skills for a career in radio, and run an FM and online radio station with other radio students.

Radio is fast-paced, dynamic and immediate. Radio works smoothly on multiple platforms, and is at the forefront of popular culture – delivering music, opinion and information to ever more savvy and demanding audiences. If you love music and popular culture, radio and audio media could offer a number of great career opportunities.

AUT radio and audio media students are sought after by major radio companies for part-time work during their studies and exciting careers after they graduate.

Get to know the business of radio, and run an FM and online radio station with other students. You create the format, manage the playlists, sell advertising, write features and commercials, promote the station and its clients, and learn how to work as a team in a fast paced and creative media enterprise.

What can I expect over the next two years?

Radio is the ultimate mixture of art and science, commerce and creativity and AUT continues to send out some of the best in the business. If you are a self-starter, creative and love music and popular culture you’ll love the freedom radio gives you to make things happen. If you’re interested in the business side of the media – programming, production, sales and marketing, radio is the perfect place to start a media career. In Year 2 you’ll be doing shows on sounz.kiwi.nz – our dedicated classic Kiwi music online radio station, you’ll participate in industry research, you’ll design ad campaigns, you’ll make web-based content and you’ll become a podcaster. Radio & Audio Media will set you up for a media career in front of and behind the microphone.

Year 3 in Radio & Audio media extends your media skills and sets you up to get into the industry. If you’re interested in the business side of the media – programming, production, sales and marketing, radio is the perfect place to start a media career. Performers get to hone their craft too - you will run your own FM radio station (static.co.nz), going on air and helping with all the tasks required to get the station to air and to get noticed. You’ll come out an allrounder – you’ll do radio shows, make documentaries, write ads and comedy pieces as well as design your own radio station from the ground up, participate in sales and marketing and work with other students to create online experiences and multiplatform content that reflects the cutting edge of the industry. Be prepared to work hard and have a lot of fun too – you get dedicated spaces, studios and a radio station to learn in, you’ll interact with key professionals and you’ll leave with lifelong industry connections.

Key features

NZ’s only university degree in radio

Access to our state-of-the-art radio and audio studios
Real experience in our student radio station, Static 88.1 FM
Interact with representatives from Radio New Zealand, MediaWorks, NZME and The Radio Bureau

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