Radio Hauraki
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| Slogan | "Get into the music" |
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| First air date | 1966 |
| Format | Alternative music, rock music |
| Owner | NZME Radio |
| Webcast | iHeart Radio |
| Website | http://www.hauraki.co.nz |
| Slogans | |
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| Radio Hauraki, Top of The Dial | |
| Radio Hauraki: Home of the good guys | |
| Here to rock, not to shock | |
| Rocking the Boat for 40 years | |
| Classic rock that rocks | |
| New Zealand's real rock station | |
| Just great rock | |
| We Endorse This Music | |
| Its Different | |
| Louder Communities Together |
Radio Hauraki is a New Zealand rock music station that started in 1966. It was the first private commercial radio station of the modern broadcasting era in New Zealand and operated illegally until 1970 to break the monopoly held by the state-owned New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. From its founding until 2012 Hauraki played a mix of classic and mainstream rock music. In 2013, it changed its music content, playing modern rock and alternative music from the last 25–30 years. In its modern legal form, Radio Hauraki's head office and main studios are now located at 2 Graham Street in the Auckland CBD, as one of eight stations of NZME Radio.
Private commercial radio stations had operated from the earliest days of broadcasting, but the government began to close them down, the process accelerating after World War II. To break the state monopoly, Radio Hauraki was originally formed as a pirate station in the Hauraki Gulf, the only offshore radio station ever to broadcast in the southern hemisphere, in a famous and historic story that saw the loss of one life.
The concept of Radio Hauraki originated with a group of journalists who felt dissatisfied with New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation (NZBC) radio stations, and with the politics involved with broadcasting in New Zealand. Private stations were able to apply for licences to operate, but the New Zealand Broadcasting Service (NZBS) stonewalled all applications. A small group involving David Gapes, Derek Lowe, Chris Parkinson and Denis O'Callaghan decided, with legal assistance, to start a private venture operating in international waters, outside of the confines of the monopolistic government departments of the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, which ran all land-based radio stations, and of the New Zealand Post Office, which managed the radio spectrum. Gapes, Lowe, Parkinson and O'Callaghan eventually broke the radio monopoly, thus allowing private radio to become widespread in New Zealand.
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