Radio Taranaki
The Radio Network after 1996 | |
History | |
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First air date | 1948 |
Former call signs | 2ZP |
Technical information | |
Transmitter coordinates | 39°03′35″S 174°04′17″E / 39.0597034°S 174.0715209°E |
Radio Taranaki was a radio station in New Plymouth and Hāwera.
The station was originally started by Radio New Zealand (which at the time was known as the National Broadcasting Service) in 1948 as 2XP which broadcast on 1370AM in New Plymouth. The callsign was later changed to 2ZP and the station became known as 2ZP Radio Taranaki. During the 1970s programming was extended to Hawera on 1560AM with the callsign 2ZH.
The Hawera station ran some of its own local shows and on air was known as Hawera's 2ZH or 2ZH Radio Taranaki.
In 1978 after the AM band in New Zealand was changed from 10 kHz spacing to 9 kHz spacing the New Plymouth station moved to 1053AM and the Hawera station moved to 1557AM.
Around 1992, the station began simulcasting on 90.0FM which was previously occupied by its sister station 'Q90FM', at this point the station became known as '90FM Radio Taranaki.'
In 1993 Radio New Zealand rebranded many of their heritage stations as
In July 1996 the
In 1998 Classic Hits 90FM was reduced to just 4 hours of local programming between 6 and 10 am 7 days a week. Outside this time nationwide shows based from Auckland took over, and the announcers simply called the station Classic Hits. The breakfast show was shortened to a 3-hour show in 2012 on all Classic Hits stations and local weekend programming removed.
In 2006 the 1557AM frequency originally used to broadcast 2ZH Radio Taranaki and later Newstalk ZB was reassigned to
Previous breakfast host for 15 years, Barney (Brent Procter) retired from broadcasting on 20 December 2013.
On 28 April 2014, all stations part of the Classic Hits network were rebranded as
In 2015 the 1557AM Hawera frequency was replaced with
The studios are based at Broadcasting House on the corner of Powderham and Brougham Streets in New Plymouth Central.
References
- The Christchurch Press. 21 September 1996. p. 29.
- ^ "Eryn & Adam". Thehits.co.nz. Archived from the original on 16 May 2014.