Resort Radio (99FM) was a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

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 ...

, until Radio Otago was sold to

RadioWorks MediaWorks New Zealand is a New Zealand-based company specialising in radio, outdoor advertising and interactive media, interactive mass media, media. It is owned by Australian out-of-home advertising company QMS. It operates eight national rad ...

in 1999. During the nineties, programming during the evenings and nights was a simulcast of

Foveaux FM Foveaux FM was a local radio station in Invercargill, New Zealand that began operating in May 1981. The station was named after Foveaux Strait which runs between the South Island of New Zealand and Stewart Island. The station was originally star ...

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-1990s, 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, Resort Radio was rebranded as

More FM More FM is a New Zealand radio network that plays hot adult contemporary music. It is operated by MediaWorks New Zealand. More FM broadcasts in 25 centres throughout New Zealand on 81 transmitters with a mix of local and network programming. ...

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.

Awards

In 2002, Resort Radio was nominated for the best provincial radio station by the Radio Broadcasting Association for the third consecutive year.

References

External links

resortradio.co.nz
(archived, 2003) Radio stations in New Zealand Queenstown, New Zealand {{NewZealand-radio-station-stub