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List of Local Radio Stations

One of our elder/older Communicators was going through some papers searching for a document and found the list of the old radio stations and their frequencies or as some older people called it their wavelengths, going back to the 1950s when every town had it ‘s own local low power radio station broadcasting the local news and stuff,  These were in addition to the big high power ones like the YA or ZB  stations which were linked together. See image below.


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  • Whangarei still has the same AM frequencies.
    837 is Radio NZ in Whangarei, Think it was call NZBC National when I was a kid.
    1026 is now run by ZB Talkback today. ZB Sport also has 729
    All are amalgamated broadcast only. No local content. (except for ads on ZB)

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