George FM
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| Broadcast area | New Zealand |
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| Frequency | Auckland 96.6 FM FM: Various Freeview: Channel 70 |
| First air date | 1998 |
| Format | Dance radio |
| Owner | MediaWorks New Zealand |
| Webcast | Live Stream |
| Website | Official website |
George FM is a New Zealand dance music radio station, owned and operated by MediaWorks from Ponsonby Road headquarters and relayed on Freeview and radio frequencies around New Zealand. Its seventy-five regular presenters and additional guest presenters host the station's twenty-four-hour mix of house, breaks, drum and bass, dubstep, electro, soul, downbeat, jazz, funk, indie electronica, hip-hop and other dance and electronica music.
The network was set up as a volunteer-run low power station based in a Grey Lynn spare bedroom in 1998. It became a commercial station with paid staff by 2003, began to be relayed to other centres in subsequent years, became a Freeview station on 1 May 2008 and was bought out by MediaWorks on 16 February 2009. It continues to retain a laid-back style: news is limited to informal news, weather, traffic and surf reports hourly during breakfast and drive shows and the choice of music and presenting style is entirely that of programme hosts.
The George FM Breakfast is hosted by Clint Roberts, Pax Assadi and Kara Rickard. It was previously hosted by Nick Dwyer and Dean Campbell between 2009 and 2013, Clarke Gayford and Aroha Harawira in 2014, then by station co-founder Thane Kirby in 2015 and 2016. Kimbra has guest-hosted the programme on a number of occasions, and PNC, Scribe and David Dallas performed a live freestyle rap on the show in 2012.
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