Coast (New Zealand radio)
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Coast is a New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 radio network
Radio network
There are two types of radio networks currently in use around the world: the one-to-many broadcast type commonly used for public information and mass media entertainment; and the two-way type used more commonly for public safety and public services such as police, fire, taxicabs, and delivery...

 owned by The Radio Network
The Radio Network
The Radio Network is the wholly owned New Zealand division of radio company Australian Radio Network, a partnership of Clear Channel and APN News & Media. It is the owner and operator of the Newstalk ZB News service and nationwide Newstalk ZB, Classic Hits, ZM, Coast, Hauraki, Easy Mix, Flava and...

 that plays middle of the road music with an emphasis on music from the fifties and sixties. A live breakfast show presented by Kim Adamson, along with programmes presented by Jacqui Taite and Rick Morin from Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

 studios are broadcast across the network's fifteen stations, except for a local breakfast breakout for Hawera
Hawera
Hawera is the second-largest town in the Taranaki region of New Zealand's North Island, with a population of . It is near the coast of the South Taranaki Bight, 75 kilometres south of New Plymouth on State Highway 3 and 20 minutes' drive from Mount Taranaki/Egmont.It is also on State Highway 45,...

.

Coast begins every hour with a four minute Newstalk ZB
Newstalk ZB
Newstalk ZB is a nationwide New Zealand talk radio network operated by The Radio Network of New Zealand . It is available in almost every radio market in the country, and has news reporters based in many of them...

 news and sports bulletin and a MetService weather update. The rest of the hour consists of music, comments from the presenter on the music being played and issues of the day, and up to three commercial breaks of no more than 60 seconds each. There are also Newstalk ZB business news bulletins at 06:30, 12:30 and 17:30 on weekdays.

During weekdays, the national weather report is read out by the previous hour's presenter, however in the weekends a 30-second localised forecast is aired, pre-recorded for each market from the Newstalk ZB Timesaver Traffic Center. Other stations of TRN also air these forecasts on their stations.

Coast should not be confused with Coast FM, which is an unrelated, independently owned and operated radio network, based in Westport
Westport, New Zealand
-Economy:Economic activity is based around fishing, coal mining and dairy farming. Historically, gold mining was a major industry, and coal mining was much more extensive than today . However, the region still is home to New Zealand's largest opencast mining operation in Stockton...

 on the West Coast of the South Island
South Island
The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean...

.

The head office and main studios of Coast are located on the corner of Cook & Nelson Streets in Auckland City
Auckland City
Auckland City was the city and local authority covering the Auckland isthmus and most of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, in the North Island of New Zealand. On 1 November 2010 it was amalgamated into the wider Auckland Region under the authority of the new Auckland Council...

, along with the other seven stations of The Radio Network.

History

Coast originally started in Hawkes Bay in 2002 as a local station. The history of this station dates back to 1995 as The Wireless Station broadcasting on 1530AM and playing music from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s; The Wireless station was operated by the Hawke's Bay Media Group. The station was rebranded as Goodtime Gold
Gold 1530AM
Gold 1530AM was a radio station on 1530am in the Hawke's Bay. The station was previously called The Wireless Station playing music from the 1930s to the 1950s and became Goodtime Gold in 1998 now playing music from the 1960s and 1970s followed by Gold 1530AM. The station was sold to The Radio...

 in 1998, playing music from the 1960s and 1970s and in 1999 became Gold 1530. This station was sold to The Radio Network in 2000 and was rebranded as Jammin' Oldies 1530 or JO 1530. The final rebranding of this station was to the current name Coast 1530.

In 2004 the station became voice tracked from Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

 in preparation for the station's launch in the Auckland market. On the 26th of April 2004 Coast launched in Auckland with the Auckland based programme being networked back to Hawkes Bay. Later in 2004 Coast was networked to other markets around New Zealand.

All Coast stations take the same networked programme from Auckland except Hawera, which has its own local breakfast show called "The 1557 Breakfast." This show was originally played on Newstalk ZB
Newstalk ZB
Newstalk ZB is a nationwide New Zealand talk radio network operated by The Radio Network of New Zealand . It is available in almost every radio market in the country, and has news reporters based in many of them...

 in the Hawera region when Newstalk ZB broadcast on 1557AM. After Newstalk ZB in Hawera moved to 1278AM this show was dropped and replaced with the Auckland based show but later picked up by Coast.

That's the Story hosted by Ronnie Mackie which is played between 7.00am and 8.00am on Sunday mornings where it was played on Classic Hits FM
Classic Hits FM
Classic Hits is an Adult Contemporary music radio network broadcasting in 25 markets throughout New Zealand, targeting 25 - 55 year olds. Its a family-focused radio network with some of New Zealand's most experienced broadcasters on air and behind the scenes. It currently has around 387,000...

.

The breakfast host since the station's foundation, well-known radio veteran Mike Oliver, left the station in 2011.

Schedule

  • 6am-10am Monday-Friday & 6am-12pm Saturday : Kim Adamson
  • 10am-3pm Monday-Friday : Jacqui Taite
  • 3pm-8pm Monday-Friday & 6am-12pm Sunday : Rick Morin
  • 12pm-6pm Saturday : Ray Mankelow

Frequencies

In the North Island:
  • Northland - 900AM
  • Auckland
    Auckland
    The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...

     - 105.4FM
  • Waikato
    Waikato
    The Waikato Region is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. It covers the Waikato, Hauraki, Coromandel Peninsula, the northern King Country, much of the Taupo District, and parts of Rotorua District...

     - 105.0FM
  • Tauranga
    Tauranga
    Tauranga is the most populous city in the Bay of Plenty region, in the North Island of New Zealand.It was settled by Europeans in the early 19th century and was constituted as a city in 1963...

     - 97.4FM
  • Rotorua
    Rotorua
    Rotorua is a city on the southern shores of the lake of the same name, in the Bay of Plenty region of the North Island of New Zealand. The city is the seat of the Rotorua District, a territorial authority encompassing the city and several other nearby towns...

     - 96.7FM
  • Gisborne - 87.6FM
  • Taranaki - 1359AM, 88.2FM
  • Taranaki: Hawera
    Hawera
    Hawera is the second-largest town in the Taranaki region of New Zealand's North Island, with a population of . It is near the coast of the South Taranaki Bight, 75 kilometres south of New Plymouth on State Highway 3 and 20 minutes' drive from Mount Taranaki/Egmont.It is also on State Highway 45,...

     only - 1557AM
  • Hawke's Bay
    Hawke's Bay
    Hawke's Bay is a region of New Zealand. Hawke's Bay is recognised on the world stage for its award-winning wines. The regional council sits in both the cities of Napier and Hastings.-Geography:...

     - 1584AM
  • Manawatu - 1548AM
  • Kapiti
    Kapiti
    Kapiti can refer to:*Kapiti Island, a small island a short distance off the New Zealand coast north of Wellington*Kapiti Coast, the stretch of coast that runs adjacent to the island.*Kapiti Line, a suburban railway in Wellington...

     - 95.9FM
  • Wellington
    Wellington
    Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...

     - 95.7FM


In the South Island:
  • Nelson
    Nelson, New Zealand
    Nelson is a city on the eastern shores of Tasman Bay, and is the economic and cultural centre of the Nelson-Tasman region. Established in 1841, it is the second oldest settled city in New Zealand and the oldest in the South Island....

     - 100.8FM
  • Christchurch
    Christchurch
    Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...

     - 1593AM
  • Dunedin
    Dunedin
    Dunedin is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the principal city of the Otago Region. It is considered to be one of the four main urban centres of New Zealand for historic, cultural, and geographic reasons. Dunedin was the largest city by territorial land area until...

     - 954AM
  • Southland
    Southland Region
    Southland is New Zealand's southernmost region and is also a district within that region. It consists mainly of the southwestern portion of the South Island and Stewart Island / Rakiura...

    - 92.4FM

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