New Zealand Radio Show Goes For Gold In The UK

As athletes from around the British Commonwealth go for Gold in Birmingham at the XXII Commonwealth Games, The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown is hitting UK audiences broadcasting through an online radio station : TV GOLD RADIO on www.tvgolduk.com. The show will play on Sunday afternoons from 4pm local UK time (3am Monday NZ time). The TV GOLD UK website is where you can enjoy a trip down memory lane – Watch classic videos of many favourites shows – Revisit idents from your favourite TV channels in different eras – Read old articles of interest in the archive section – on www.tvgolduk.com – and of course listen online to TV GOLD RADIO and The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown. And we are sure you will notice the various classic TV themes that play throughout the programme.

Other overseas stations where The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown is heard include 89.5 Kia Orana FM in Rarotonga in the Cook Islands, on Retro 80s Radio – an online station based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in the USA, through www.retro80sradio.com and also Central Coast Radio in NSW, Australia via www.centralcoastradio.com .

The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown is a weekly trip back in time to New Zealand in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Kapiti Coast based broadcaster Rob Walker hosts the show which is a countdown of the top 40 songs as they were on the official New Zealand singles charts for the corresponding weekend. It also includes a look at some tracks off some great albums that were on the official New Zealand album charts for that same year and weekend.

The show is 3 to 4 hours of reminiscing and is packed with audio from the artists, as well as a look at New Zealand news & events of that weekend & year, and because it's our countdown, it of course features some great New Zealand music. So it’s OUR CHARTS – OUR MUSIC! It also has some of the big hits from Australian artists and groups, as well as the big hits from the USA and the UK. The charts used for The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown are based on the official New Zealand music charts from Recorded Music New Zealand at www.nztop40.co.nz .

The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown began being syndicated around the country in May 2018, on various regional & local commercial radio stations, and also some LPFM stations, and now it is heard on 39 great and 100% New Zealand locally owned & independent radio stations across the nation – making it the most syndicated locally produced weekly music radio show in the country – with a potential audience of around 2 million listeners each weekend. Some of the radio stations give the programme 2 or 3 plays each week with mid–week replays. And now it is also heard on FOUR stations overseas, bringing the total number of stations playing the countdown to over 40!

The majority of the stations that play the programme also stream online via their own websites which are listed and linked from the AB Soundbites website : www.absoundbites.co.nz .

The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown does not have a nationwide sponsor presently, but is welcoming any sponsors to come on board and talk to that potential audience of around 2 million listeners each week across the nation, and as well as in the Cook Islands, the USA, Australia and now the UK too.

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