Indigenous Radio

Te Reo Irirangi o Tainui (Radio Tainui) was established as an Iwi radio station in 1989 and is one of 21 Iwi stations delivering programming for Maori audiences.

Radio Tainui broadcasts 24 hours a day, seven days a week, providing a vehicle of communication to Tainui tribal members, and Maori living within the tribal boundaries including the outside broadcasts of annual tribal events such as Coronation, Poukai, Hui-a-Iwi, regional and national cultural activities specifically targeting a Maori audience ranging from the very young to the very old, the speakers and non-speakers of Maori language.

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Waatea 603am is Auckland's only Maori radio station that provides an extensive bilingual broadcast to its listeners. Based at Nga Whare Waatea marae in Mangere, it is located in the middle of the biggest Maori population in Aotearoa.

UMA Broadcasting was established in 1999 by the Urban Maori Authorities, Manukau Urban Maori Authority and The Waipareira Trust, as an entity to seek, foster and develop opportunities for urban Maori in broadcasting.

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Radio Ngati Porou(RNP) was established on August 31st, 1987 after a succesful short term broadcast, under the name of Radio Ruatoria, with the assistance of staff from Radio Waikato and a radiothon. The radiothon saw a world record of $10 per head of population raised ($44,000) in total, by East Coast communities from Uawa to Potaka. With the assurance of NZ on Air, the people of Niue, money raised from the cuclone Bola concert in 1988 and a loan from Te Runanga o Ngati Porou, RNP was able to purchase a new station building in 1991 moving staff and operations from the skylne garage that had served as headquarters from its inception in 1987. Since then, RNP has improved its broadcast coverage by implementing FM transmitters on 98.1FM on the East Coast, 93.3FM in Gisborne and since September 2004 90.1FM in Tolaga.

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