Radio Broadcasting Services in Christchurch Status
Media Release
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.com
Radio
Broadcasting Services
in Christchurch
Status
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A complete list of
AM and FM radio services in Christchurch with
updates on
their current status is now available.
Many studios are
located in the CBD, are damaged and no longer
accessible
and several locally based stations [such as Plains FM]
are
no longer broadcasting.
Main transmitter sites are
operational, but several local low power
FM stations in
the eastern suburbs of Aranui, South New Brighton
and
Sumner have all sustained damage and are
silent.
Other local LPFM stations such as Power Hits 87.7
FM have been
broadcasting emergency accommodation
messages for the St
Albans/Mairehau community and offers
to help stations have come from
other local stations as
far away as Wellington and Queenstown.
Volcano Radio 88.5
FM in Lyttelton returned to the air shortly after
the
quake and has been broadcasting community messages
and
information since.
The detailed list is available
for download from
www.radioheritage.com and is located at
the homepage under the header
'Christchurch Earthquake
2011'.
Donations towards the 'Helping Rebuild
Christchurch' project which
was launched only the day
before the earthquake as part of the Kiwi
Radio Campaign
are also welcomed through Paypal at the website or can
be
mailed to the Radio Heritage Foundation, PO Box 20024,
Newtown,
Wellington 6242. Donations are tax
deductible.