Music
Our Funding Strategy
Overview
The new NZ On Air music mission is to connect great NZ songs and videos with the audience via broadcast and digital platforms. We also invest in NZ music programming on broadcast outlets as varied as music TV, commercial radio, the Student Radio Network and Kiwi FM.
Funding for Musicians
The single-track funding scheme MakingTracks provides funding towards single recording and a music video for an unfinished track, or music video funding only for finished tracks. There are 10 monthly funding rounds per year, February through to November. For more information see kiwihits.co.nz
Funding for Broadcasters
We support a variety of NZ music programmes across a wide range of broadcast outlets - commercial radio, the Student Radio Network, Kiwi FM, and music television. Queries or proposals about new shows should be emailed to the NZ Music Manager Brendan Smyth, brendan@nzonair.govt.nz
Kiwi Hit Discs
Every month we release a new collection of fresh NZ songs to every radio station in the country along with other key media outlets. This two-disc monthly collection is also featured at kiwihits.co.nz.
Online
NZ music is all over the web. We fund three key websites to help audiences find it. TheAudience looks to the future, profiling up and coming artists; NZ On Screen shows notable music videos. In mid-2013 they'll be joined by AudioCulture, a noisy library full of stories of popular NZ music. Made by the people who were there, AudioCulture will map NZ's music landscape, connecting people, recordings, places, scenes and record labels from the 1920s until today. Ask simon@audioculture.co.nz
