Waking Up Without Your Best Friend

Waking Up Without Your Best Friend

In the early hours of tomorrow morning Radio stations throughout Wellington will be moving.

The iconic Breeze is one of those stations that will be changing frequencies, only slightly but still enough to confuse people. For the people of the Hutt Valley the station will go from 98.1 FM to 98.5FM

The reason for the change is that it is a legal requirement of the Government to bring New Zealand’s FM broadcasting framework into line with international standards. In total there will be around 250 changes across the whole of New Zealand – that's around a third of frequencies.

For some people the alarm will go off tomorrow as it normally does but with one difference and instead of hearing the friendly voice that they normally wake up too they will have static.

Steve Joll Breakfast announcer on The Breeze says “It will be quite distressing for some of our listeners who wake up to the radio station every morning to have nothing there and there is no way to tell them how to change it to the right frequency once it goes off.”

It’s been 15 years since a frequency change for The Breeze but will only affect people who listen in the Hutt Valley, Wellington listeners will wake up to the same Easy Listening Music.

Dan Boyd, Promotions Manager at the station says “The best way to treat this is like daylight saving, before you go to sleep change the frequency on your dial to the new location, and when you wake up it will be like nothings changed”.

Other stations that have a change in the early hours of tomorrow morning are:

RADIO LIVE from 98.7FM to 98.9FM
THE ROCK from 96.3FM to 96.5FM
SOILD GOLD 97.5FM to 97.3FM
RADIO NEW ZEALAND CONCERT 96.5FM to 96.1FM

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