The half hour recording begins with the 9am news, trailer and weather read by Stuart Keith.
Mediawatch presented by Colin Peacock.
Topics: Mediawatch editor Tom Frewen comments on the best and the worst of the year - Sunday Star Times best newspaper; worst story Sunday Star Times coverage of under-age sex story and National Business Review story on Dick Hubbard when he was running for the Auckland mayoralty; Best broadcaster Kim Hill, worst television programme TV1's Sunday; best single event this year - Paul Holmes going to Prime TV; best laugh - Fair Go's spoof Tui billboard.
Brian Priestley of 1980s Fourth Estate programme and Jeremy (Newsboy) Wells of Eating Media Lunch discuss the media, particularly television, then and now with Russell Brown.
Colin Peacock surveys the year in the media: including the rise of reality television, "dumbing down" of current affairs, Prime TV's acquisition of Holmes; Newstalk ZB's Keith Richardson's spurious report from Solomon Islands when he was still at Christchurch airport; competition between weekend newspapers; confrontational style of Morning Report's Sean Plunket; reality television; public service broadcasting; Athens Olympics.