Job cuts at Radio Dunedin will leave the station with no journalist, MediaWorks has confirmed.
As well as its only journalist, the station will lose a production engineer.
Lyndsay Rackley's afternoon show would be scrapped, but Mr Rackley would still be employed at the station, a spokeswoman said.
A new show with a ''strong Dunedin flavour'' would take its place.
The station would call on MediaWorks' Dunedin-based TV3 journalist for local news, the spokeswoman said.
''From October 30, there will be no local radio journalist based there.''
It remains unclear whether a second Dunedin-based TV3 journalist will be replaced.
Yesterday, the Otago Daily Times reported that Television New Zealand was considering disestablishing one of its Dunedin reporter roles, a part-time role, and a full-time cameraman-editor role.
Dunedin South MP and Labour's broadcasting spokeswoman Clare Curran said TVNZ's proposal would have a negative impact on news coverage in Otago and Southland.
''TVNZ is cutting around 10 positions nationwide in a cost-cutting exercise affecting backroom news production and regional news gathering.
''It beggars belief that you would axe two frontline positions which covers an area of 65,000sqkm,'' Ms Curran said in a press release.
