Indigenous Radio

Atiawa Toa FM is one of New Zealand's premier Iwi radio stations. It's a department of Te Runanganui o Taranaki Whanui and it celebrated its 10th birthday in 2003.

A fully commercial enterprise, it successfully competes in the Greater Wellington market, broadcasting to the Wellington region via 2 transmitters; one on the eastern hills of Lower Hutt and the other overlooking Porirua city.

Atiawa Toa FM has two primary coverage areas:

The Hutt Valley to the north of Wellington City on 96.9MHz (Te Atiawa tribal area) and the Porirua/Kapiti Coast area on 94.9 MHz (the Ngati Toa tribal area).

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Kia Ora FM 89.8 is in the tribal heart of Rangitaane O Manawatu.

The station has been in operation since 1991 and broadcast from Wharite Peak to an audience capacity of over 120,000.

"Kia Ora" literally means "be well/healthy".

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Moana AM is a community radio station operated by Te Reo Irirangi o Tauranga Moana Charitable Trust. The target audience is made up of all people living in the tribal boundaries of the three local Iwi, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Pūkenga. The fundamental goal is to deliver innovative and quality radio programmes in Māori and English to that audience.

Moana Am has been in operation since 1991 and continues to provide a broadcasting service that effects positive emotions about the Māori language and culture, and motivates one to act upon those emotions to learn that language.

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Radio Ngāti Hine 99.5 FM frequency covers the Whangarei city, the southern districts and surrounds.

Ngati Hine FM is equipped with a high quality digital production desk and recording studio.
The objective is the promotion of Te Reo Maori for our whanau living at home and abroad.

Ngati Hine FM is a project of the Ngati Hine Health Trust.

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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Turanga F.M is the Iwi Radio Station for the Gisborne Area Broadcasting on 91.7FM / 95.5FM & 98FM. It was established by Te Runanga O Turanganui A Kiwa in 1992 as a Private Limited Liability Company and registered under the 1955 Companies Act.

The Station has a wide & diverse music format catering to the listening tastes of many while still maintaining its prime mission statement of preserving & promoting the maori culture & language.  The prime objective Turanga F.M is to promote, pursue and advance the cultural, economic, spiritual, social well-being and prosperity of Iwi.

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TAI FM is a radio station aimed at the youth market which makes TAI FM unique in New Zealand and since its establishment in 2001 been offering a quality upbeat station to Far North and other areas listeners. A recent Massey University survey among the Maori population found that TAI FM is the most listened to radio station in the Far North for the 0-25 year age group.

The target audience is from 4-25 and our exciting music format includes Contemporary Hits Radio – mainstream pop, hip-hop, NZ Top 20 Chart, and latest hits.

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Nga Iwi FM 92.2 & 99.5 is a pan-tribal station based in Paeroa that was established in 1990. The licence-holder is the Hauraki Maori Trust Board and the stations legal entity is Te Reo Irirangi O Pare Hauraki Trust (Incorporated Charitable Trust). The Trust has a trust board with six members with the day-to-day operations of the station handled by the station manager who reports to the chairperson of the Trust.

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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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