93 Rox was a local Rock radio station

Radio station

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 in Dunedin

Dunedin

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, New Zealand

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 that broadcast on 93.4 FM between 1992 and 1997. The station was started by Radio Otago

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...

 and broadcast from Radio Otago House in Dunedin where local Dunedin station 4XO

4XO

Radio 4XO was a local radio station in Dunedin, New Zealand which began in October 1971 as one of the first privately-owned commercial radio stations in the country. The callsign/station identity 4XO was assigned because 4 meant the area south of Canterbury, the X meant private and O stood for the...

 was based.
In 1997 Radio Otago purchased Christchurch station C93FM

C93FM

C93FM was a New Zealand radio station based in Christchurch.C93FM broadcast on 92.9 FM and, after it merged with Radio Avon, also broadcast on 1260 AM. C93FM has had several music formats during its time on the air...

 and in August 1997

1997 in radio

The year 1997 in radio involved some significant events.-Events:*February 15 - After 5 years of Alternative Rock, WDRE flips into Rhythmic AC as Philly 103.9, the station, began to play Pearl Jam's Alive while crowding the live stage....

 93 Rox became C93FM. At this point the programme was networked to Invercargill on 90.8FM but remained independent from the Christchurch C93FM. At the end of 1998 local content on C93FM was replaced with a network programme from Christchurch.

In 1999 Radio Otago was sold to RadioWorks and the station was replaced with network station The Rock

The Rock (New Zealand)

The Rock is a New Zealand rock music radio station. It currently holds the #1 ratings spot out of the music stations nationwide. The station is known to broadcast material of a controversial nature, and The Rock has in the past had some issues with the Broadcasting Standards Authority with a number...

in both Invercargill and Dunedin.