NZ Government Extends AM/FM Licensing
AM/FM licences are due to expire in 2031, and renewal is in progress. AM/FM licences to be renewed from 2031 to 2051: January 2026 27…
A Warm Pacific Welcome
Welcome! Here, you’ll find features, pictures, personalities, commercial art, radio station guides, audio and more connecting popular culture, nostalgia and radio heritage across the Pacific and beyond.
MediaWorks expands the Breeze with Breeze Classic
MediaWorks has announced a new extension of the Breeze, Breeze Classic, which will move onto FM frequencies currently occupied by Magic on 1 November. Read…
Pacific-Asian Log (PAL Guide) June 2025 Update
Bruce Portzer’s Pacific-Asian Log (PAL Guide) has been updated to the June 2025 edition. You can download a PDF copy here: The searchable database version…
The Old Timers
Raymond Conder writes to us from Perth, Western Australia: I started out in radio announcing in 1962 I think it was 6VA Albany and then…
NZME to launch dedicated country music station iHeartCountry New Zealand
NZME is launcing a country music format network from May 9, 2025.
RNZ celebrates 100 years
One hundred years ago, New Zealanders had their first chance to connect with a revolutionary form of mass communication – a national radio service. The New Zealand Radio Broadcasting Company, formed in 1925, laid the foundations for what became RNZ.
USAGM Shutdowns: A Roundup of Reports and Reactions
Read a collection of reports on the Trump Administration’s changes to US international broadcasting on the SWLing Post blog: https://swling.com/blog/2025/03/usagm-shutdowns-a-roundup-of-reports-and-reactions
KSKO’s One Man, Full-Time Operation Connects Interior Alaska
Paul Walker, the self-professed “Alaska Radio Nerd” is the sole full-time employee of a station that provides news, music, and emergency services across a wide swath of central Alaska.
SENZ looks to new chapter as Sport Nation
New Zealand’s only dedicated sports radio and audio platform is evolving, with SENZ rebranding to Sport Nation from November 19.
David Ricquish Signs Off
It is with great sadness that we report that David Ricquish passed away at his home in Wellington, New Zealand, on September 23, 2024, after…
Pacific-Asian Log (PAL Guide) September 2024 Update
Bruce Portzer’s Pacific-Asian Log (PAL Guide) has been updated to the September 2024 edition. You can download a PDF copy here: or search the database…
RNZ marks 75 years of broadcasting shortwave into the Pacific
It has been 75 years since Radio New Zealand commenced broadcasting on shortwave frequencies into the Pacific region.
RNZ goes live with new Pacific shortwave transmitter
Shortwave transmission to the Pacific is “more important now” than in 1990 when RNZ Pacific first broadcast into the region, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister says. RNZ went live on Thursday with its new Pacific shortwave transmitter, replacing its old one that dates to 1989.
Dan Greenall Collection on Archive.org
Dan has begun setting up some of his QSL galleries on the internet archive, Archive.org, in order to help preserve radio history. We’re happy to provide these links to some of his work.
Sugarloaf: Inside the concrete eyrie high above Christchurch in the Port Hills
Published on the Stuff website in 2018, this story takes an interesting look at the Sugarloaf transmitter site located on the Port Hills above Christchurch, New Zealand.
WKBW Radio Sounders and Station IDs
WKBW Radio at 1520kHz was at one time, one of the best rock and roll stations in the USA. At night it’s broadcast signal could be heard up and down the Eastern seaboard, and even in parts of Europe including the middle of the Atlantic.
ABC Transcription Tapes for Latin America?
Enrique Klapp, from Los Angeles, writes to us: Dear Sirs, When I was a youngster in Chile, in the Seventies, radio stations in Latin America…
Building Bethany – VOA’s First High-Power International Broadcast Station
Many thanks to the National VOA Museum of Broadcasting for posting the following video on their YouTube channel:
Celebrating Marconi
An event at the Marconi Museum inside the Vatican on Saturday celebrates 150 years since the birth of the man who set up Vatican Radio. Present, alongside the Prefect and directors of the Dicastery for Communications, were also Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, and Guglielmo Marconi’s grandson.