13/06/2023
Broadcasting in Cambridge every Saturday afternoon on Oaks On-Air 88.3FM.
PETER WILLIAMS HEARD ACROSS THE COUNTRY ON THE NZ RETRO WEEKLY TOP 40 COUNTDOWN
Starting this weekend legendary New Zealand broadcaster Peter Williams will be heard across New Zealand and even overseas as part of the syndicated radio show The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown with Rob Walker each week. Peter will be presenting the Retro Sports News Headlines as part of the countdown. Each week the show looks back at a corresponding month and year counting down top top 40 hits on the NZ singles and album charts during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, and during the programme it also looks at the some of the big national and international stories making headlines for that year as well. Rick Perry, who also hosts the breakfast show on local independent station 106.3 Beach FM in the Kapiti Coast & Horowhenua, presents the Retro News Headlines in the show.
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 it is now heard on over 40 great and 100% New Zealand locally owned & independent radio stations across the nation including – Radio1XX : One Double–X in Whakatane & the Eastern Bay Of Plenty, which won Local Station of the Year at the 2023 NZ Radio Awards recently, and will be celebrating 52 years on the air on 30th June, also Central FM in Central & Southern Hawke’s Bay, who will be celebrating its 29th birthday on 18th June, and Cave FM on 106.4FM which based in Gore and can now be heard throughout Southland down to Invercargill. Other independent regional stations from Dargaville and also Mangawhai in the North, through the Coromandel Peninsula, along the West Coast of the South Island, as well as North Canterbury, South Canterbury, North Otago, Central Otago and others, as well as several LPFM stations in parts of Auckland, Waikato, King Country, Taupo, Wellington & the Hutt Valley, Canterbury and other areas who also play the programme – 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. It is also heard on four overseas radio stations : 89.5 Kia Orana FM in Rarotonga, and 3 online stations – based on the Central Coast in New South Wales, Australia, as well in the UK and also Myrtle Beach, South Carolina in the USA.
The team behind The New Zealand Retro Weekly Top 40 Countdown are very proud to have such a legendary, well respected and popular broadcaster as part of the team. For the full list of radio stations playing the programme see : www.absoundbites.co.nz .
