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Year: 2012

Lyall Bay School Radio : Maranui FM

Lyall Bay kids relish roles on radio ERIN KAVANAGH-HALL Maranui FM’s DJs are charming and articulate, have local knowledge and varied musical tastes – and…

Radio Control in New Hands

Laura Walters Radio Control is ready for change, as the long-time student station says goodbye to its team leader, Jacob Lilley, and welcomes in David…

Talkback Host has Done the Hard Yards

Talkback host sensed it was ‘time to pull the pin’ The fire started to fade in the chill of winter. Mike Yardley would wake up…

US$240 Donor Giveaway

US$240 in gifts available to donorsSeptember 1 – January 31 2013Read on to find out how to win! Did you know that the Radio Heritage…

Richmond View School : Radio Zestoboom!

Junior DJs take to airwavesZestoboom, Zestoblat! and Zestobling SONIA BEAL Richmond View School in Blenheim has been making its presence felt on the airwaves, through…

Radio Station KIBS Canton Island 1952

Glenn Carpenter, who grew up on Canton Island in the 1950’s where his father was also announcer on KIBS Radio, has shared this earlier photo…

KVZI Roi-Namur

KVZI-FM broadcast at 97.9 FM in the 1970’s on Roi-Namur island, near Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands, then part of the US Trust Territory of…

Radio Contact AM Memories

Thursday throwback – Community Radio in 1986 TRACEY COOPER This week Community Radio Hamilton changed to FreeFM and began broadcasting on the 89FM frequency. The…

Free Fijian on Free FM

Listeners from around the world CHRIS GARDNER Peni Seru takes a few minutes to compose himself. I’ve just asked the presenter of Bogi ni Taukei,…

DJ Bobby is new on Blue

DJ wants more folk to use radio EMMA DANGERFIELD With his velvet voice and love of music, Bob Mawer seems to have been made for…

Hospital Radio Timaru Finds New Home

Hospital Radio forced to shift Hospital Radio has found a new home but is asking for community support to help it continue. The community radio…

ART of Radio Success at 104.4FM

Access Radio a true story of success YVETTE BATTEN – NORTH TARANAKI MIDWEEK Two years ago the voice of the community first wafted over our…

Radio Station KIBS Canton Island Studio Building

This vintage Kodachrome Transparency dates from around 1952. Radio Station KIBS provided entertainment on isolated Canton Island for the staff of the mid-ocean jet re-fuelling…

Farewell to RNW shortwave broadcast from Bonaire

The Radio Netherlands’ relay station on the Caribbean island of Bonaire lies a few hundred metres off a narrow road. A white patch on a…

Big Buzz at Big River FM in Northland

Radio interns get a buzz out of life in Dargaville JO BELWORTHY Kaipara community radio station Big River FM’s latest interns give Dargaville a big…

Aye Awa Away

Awa FM gets new home Laurel Stowell The move to roomier quarters at Wanganui’s Tupoho Community Complex means Awa FM can take on more, manager…

2ZA Heritage Vinyl Collection Found in Levin

Sound investment JONO GALUSZKA More than 700 pieces of Palmerston North broadcast history have been unearthed from a basement in Levin. Record collector Paul Foote…

Early Chinese Radio in Peking

Due to the absence of any local stations, residents with radios in Peking were not able to receive any transmissions except at night, when they could usually tune-in to broadcasts from the Shanghai and Tientsin concessions. Despite these limitations, radios were in demand amongst Peking’s expatriate community and were good business for the importers.

Secret FM No Secret Any More

Hutt youth centre launches radio station LEE-ANNE EDWARDS Hutt radio listeners will be hearing more from local teens with the launch of youth radio station…

Australian Radio 1922-2012 – Amateur Radio DJs lead the way…

It’s around 90 years ago that the first Australian radio stations began broadcasting to a few enthusiastic early adopters of the new technology called wireless, and this is the kind of music that was popular at the time.