Resort Radio (99FM) was a
radio station in
Queenstown on 99.2FM, 100.0FM and 1359AM.
Originally this station was owned by
Radio Otago
Radio Otago was a radio company that operated a group of local radio stations in radio markets around New Zealand from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Radio Otago was started in 1971 when Dunedin station 4XO was started, 4XO was originally branded as ...
until Radio Otago was sold to
RadioWorks
MediaWorks New Zealand is a New Zealand-based company specialising in radio, outdoor advertising and interactive media. It is jointly owned by U.S. company Oaktree Capital Management and out-of-home advertising company QMS. It operates nin ...
in 1999. During the nineties, programming during the evenings and nights was a simulcast of
Foveaux FM in Southland with Southland advertisements. Foveaux announcers would read out the weather for Queenstown during the evenings especially for Resort Radio listeners.
During the winter ski season in the mid 90s, there was a 'apres ski show' featuring local content and programming broadcast between 6pm and 10pm.
After Radio Otago was sold to RadioWorks local programming was brought back to Resort Radio during the evenings and overnight.
In
2004
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Events January
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Resort Radio was rebranded as
More FM when RadioWorks rebranded the majority of their
LocalWorks stations to More FM.
With the station now part of the More FM network, the station is now only local between 6am-12pm weekdays. Out of these times the station is networked from Auckland. The current breakfast show is hosted by Joel Palmer, and was previously hosted by Margo Berryman and Henry Youngman (6am-10am) & Janey Newlands hosted the workday show (10am-1pm). Philippa Collins, Jono and Jo Blick formerly rotated hosting duties on weekends.
References
Radio stations in New Zealand
Queenstown, New Zealand
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