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MORE FM
Broadcast area22 markets in New Zealand
Programming
FormatAdult contemporary music, Pop music
Ownership
OwnerMediaWorks Radio
History
First air date
1991, in Wellington
Links
WebcastMore FM webcast
WebsiteMore FM website

MORE FM is a New Zealand radio network playing adult contemporary music or Pop music. It is operated by MediaWorks New Zealand.

MORE FM broadcasts in 22 centres throughout New Zealand with local programming in most markets between 6am and 3pm and networked programming the rest of the day.

According to the MediaWorks Radio corporate website, MORE FM targets a 25-44 year-old audience and seeks to maintain a local presence in the markets in which it operates. Sponsorship of the five Super Rugby franchises, especially by the original five stations, is an important component of the network's brand.[1]

MORE FM History

Early years

MORE FM first began in Wellington on 6 May 1991 as a local radio station. The very first station was started by Doug Gold and Craig Thompson, previously Doug Gold was the managing director of Wellington radio station Radio Windy. The very first song to play on the first More FM station was Rhythm of My Heart by Rod Stewart. [2] In the early nineties MORE FM began broadcasting in Christchurch and Auckland both as local stations separate from the Wellington station.

Change of ownership

In the late nineties MORE FM's parent company The MORE FM Group was sold to CanWest Mediaworks who at the time were the owners of TV3 New Zealand, the sale also included The Breeze in Wellington and Channel Z. Programming was extended to Dunedin in 1997 as a local station but networked from Christchurch during breakfast and evenings. A fifth MORE FM station was started in the Waikato in 1999 as a totally local station.

In 2000 CanWest Mediaworks purchased RadioWorks which at that stage was operating 4 network brands across New Zealand and a local station in most markets across New Zealand. RadioWorks later became known as MediaWorks.

Expansion to other regions

In 2004 MediaWorks began nationalising many of their local stations previously marketed as LocalWorks stations. Regions with just one local station had their station rebranded as More FM, regions with more than one local station typically had the station considered to be the flagship station in that area rebranded as More FM and secondary stations rebranded as The Breeze. Some markets had secondary local stations replaced with a network station run by MediaWorks. The changes saw MORE FM extended to more than 15 markets with all stations initially retaining their local announcers up to 7pm. The number of stations was later expanded to 22 after MediaWorks purchased other independent stations and rebranded to MORE FM.

Introduction of network programming

Network Night Show

Evening and overnight network programming began in January 2005. The 'MORE FM Most Wanted' Night show was originally hosted by Dominic Bowden until the middle of 2005 and then by Tarsha Tolson until the middle of 2007 when Tarsha moved to Wellington to co-host the MORE FM breakfast show. The overnight show was originally hosted by Asher Bastion until he left to go to Life FM in June 2006 where he is currently Programme Director.

Network Drive and Daytime Shows

In August 2009 the first Network Drive show was created. The Wellington weekday Drive show team, 'Josh & Tom' Josh van Berkel and Tom McKenzie (ex-Classic Hits South Canterbury) were re-located to Auckland and their show was networked into 19 of the 22 MORE FM markets over the following months.

In March 2011 Josh & Tom announced they were leaving MORE FM. The structure of the day was reworked ending the traditional Breakfast/Day/Drive line up. From 4 April 2011 the More FM stations are local in all markets with the network starting at 1pm, an hour earlier, consisting of a 1pm-4pm Afternoon show hosted by former MORE FM Waikato breakfast host Stu Tolan and a 4-7pm Drive show hosted by media personality Clarke Gayford. Christchurch, Manawatu and Nelson were the exception to the change in format as these stations continued to broadcast locally up to 7pm until 2015.

Networked programming during the Daytime began in 2013 with the introduction of a show presented by Geoff Stagg from Wellington and networked to selected regions.

From 2015 More FM will revert back to the traditional Breakfast/Day/Drive line up and local programming will be extended in some markets to run between 6am and 3pm or 10am to 3pm for those markets taking the networked breakfast show. A new nationwide Drive presented by Jason Gunn and Lana Searle show will run from 3pm to 7pm broadcast from Christchurch.

Network Breakfast

In 2007 the MORE FM Christchurch breakfast show presented by Si and Gary was networked into the Nelson region. In October 2011, MORE FM's new breakfast show for Auckland, Waikato & Wellington was announced. The new breakfast show commencing 7 November 2011 was hosted by Marc Ellis, Amber Peebles & Stu Tolan. The 'local' daytime host read out local news and weather in their respective region as part of the networked breakfast show from 6am to 10am. In December 2012 Amber Peebles left the show to pursue a television project. Her replacement was Hayley Holt. Marc Ellis left the show in October 2013 with Stu and Hayley joined by Joe Cotton for the remaining of the show until December 2013, when it was announced it would be axed and replaced with Si and Gary from MORE FM Christchurch in 2014.

Weekend programming

Originally weekend programming on all MORE FM stations remained local after the expansion and rebranding in 2005 including during Saturday and Sunday evenings and overnight. A networked evening show for weekends was introduced in late 2005. On Friday and Saturday nights MORE FM now operates a nationwide all request 'Club Classics' party mix show, hosted by professional DJ duo Sandon James and Rich Wilson - better known as the "Sweet Mix Kids". MORE FM began replacing local programming at the weekends with networked programming from 2007 onwards initially networking stations after 2pm. Most stations now have no local programmes on a Sunday with the station entirely networked from Auckland across the weekend, with the exception of a Saturday morning breakfast show.

Christmas Holiday programming

Up until 2009 most stations continued to run local shows during the Christmas break which had typically run from Christmas Day until early January. Some stations even had local programming on Christmas Day. In more recent years most stations have run complete network shows during the holiday break.

The MORE FM Network

Most MORE FM stations have their own local programming between 6am and 3pm weekdays. After 3pm almost all regions take a networked drive show hosted by Jason Gunn and Lana Searle. The network shows are based in Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch. After 7pm all markets take a networked night show with Joe and Shawn and an overnight show.

The More FM Network Lineup

The station line up is:

Breakfast Monday - Friday 6am - 10am Local in most markets with weather every 30 minutes with Angie Skerrett and local weather read by local breakfast announcers.
Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch & Nelson: Simon Barnett and Gary McCormick - broadcast from Christchurch
Daytime Monday - Friday 10am - 3pm Local in most markets.
Northland, Rotorua, Hawkes Bay, Wanganui, Horowhenua, Kapiti, Wairarapa, Wellington: Geoff Stagg - broadcast from Wellington
Drive Monday - Friday 3pm - 6pm Jason Gunn and Lana Searle - broadcast from Christchurch
Nights Monday - Friday 7pm - 12am Joe Cotton and Shawn Cleaver - broadcast from Auckland
Overnights Monday - Sunday 12am - 5am AUTOMATED
Saturday Breakfast Saturdays 6am-10am Local Breakfast show
Saturday Daytime Saturdays 10am-2pm Dane Anderson (Network Show), Local Shows in some markets
Saturday Afternoon Saturdays 2pm-7pm Cam McNaughton
Saturday Nights Saturdays 7pm-12am The Sweet Mix Kids
Sunday Breakfast Sundays 7am-10am Simon Barnett and Gary McCormick - "The Sunday Show"
Sunday Daytime Sundays 10am-2pm Dane Anderson
Sunday Afternoons Sundays 2pm-7pm Cam McNaughton
Sunday Nights Sundays 7pm-12am Shawn Cleaver

MORE FM Stations

More FM stations
Market Transmitter(s) Frequency (MHz)
Northland Hikurangi
Horokaka
Maungataniwha
Cottle Hill Drive
Russell		 91.6
91.6
91.6
92.0
95.2
Auckland Sky Tower 91.8
Waikato Ruru 92.2
Tauranga Kopukairua 93.4
Rotorua Pukepoto
Paeroa Range		 95.9
89.2
Gisborne Wharekopae
Wheatstone Road		 90.1
98.9
Taupo Tuhingamata 93.6
Hawke's Bay Mount Erin 92.7
Taranaki Mount Egmont 93.2
Wanganui Bastia Hill 92.8
Manawatu Wharite 92.2
Horowhenua Heights Road 104.2
Wairarapa Otahoua
Popoiti
Castlepoint		 89.5
105.5
105.9
Kapiti Coast Forest Heights 90.3
Wellington Fitzherbert
Haywards
Kaukau		 95.3
99.7
99.7
Nelson Grampians
Mount Murchison
Mount Campbell		 92.8
94.1
92.0
Marlborough Wither Hills
Mount Freeth
Kaikoura Peninusla		 92.9
94.7
89.9
Christchurch Sugarloaf
Southshore
Mount Pearce		 92.1
94.9
99.1
Queenstown Peninsula Hill
Mount Maude
Kingston		 92.0
99.4
97.2
Central Otago Obelisk
Cromwell		 90.3
94.3
Dunedin Mount Cargill 97.4
Balclutha Kuriwao 93.7
Southland Hedgehope
Mount Prospect		 89.2
96.0

Northland

91.6 MORE FM Northland is a radio station serving the Whangarei urban area and the entire Northland Region. Before the re-branding to MORE FM in 2005 this station was known famously as KCC FM.

Local Weekday Shows

  • Breakfast 5:30am – 10:00am: John Markby and Angela "Flash" Gordon
  • Bay of Islands Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: TOAST

Local Weekend Shows

  • The Saturday Brunch with Charmaine Soljak 6:00 am – 7:30 am and 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
  • The Saturday Sports Desk with Sevy and Tommo 7:30 am – 9:00 am Saturday

PAST ANNOUNCERS

  • Lana Searle
  • Jason Tikau
  • Dave Nicholas
  • Estelle Clifford
  • Angie Skerritt

Auckland

91.8 MORE FM Auckland is a radio station serving the Auckland urban area and can be heard in parts of Waikato, such as Paeroa. MORE FM Auckland came to be in August 1993. It's sole transmitter is at the top of the Sky Tower in central Auckland.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Dan Bernstone

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am

Previous Breakfast Announcers:

  • Jeremy Corbett
  • Jesse Mulligan
  • Peter Dakin
  • Kim Adamson
  • Hilary Barry

Previous local non-breakfast Announcers:

  • Lance Dunne
  • Robert Scott
  • Tarsha Tolson
  • NICKI SUNDERLAND

Waikato

92.2 MORE FM Waikato is a radio station based in central Hamilton. MORE FM was started in the 1990s as a totally local station in the Waikato region.

The sole transmitter for More FM Waikato is at Ruru, approximately 25 km east of Hamilton.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Mornings with Kendall Forbes

PAST ANNOUNCERS

  • Dave Fitzgerald
  • Lana Searle
  • Stu Tolan
  • KM Adams
  • Tauha Te Kani (Toast)
  • Nick Trott
  • Ronny Philips
  • Blair Dowling
  • Ross Flahive
  • Jeff Newton
  • Jan Maree
  • Hale Speedy

Tauranga

93.4 MORE FM Tauranga is a local radio station based in central Tauranga, broadcasting across the Bay of Plenty region. Before the re-branding to MORE FM, this local station was known as 93.4 Coastline FM. Former Breakfast hosts Vance "Vinnie" Aston and Kirstin "Kirt" Richards both left their show on 21 December 2012 with Vinnie pursuing new opportunities and Kirt moving to the station's Sales team. They were replaced by former Classic Hits Taupo breakfast host Brendon Weatherley and More FM Manawatu breakfast radio personality Bel Crawford.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Nicki Sunderland and Brendon Weatherley
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Bel Crawford

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Chris James
  • Saturday Daytime 10:00am – 2:00pm: Tim Williams

Previous Breakfast Hosts:

  • Vinnie Aston
  • Kirt Richards
  • Laura Drummond
  • Hamish Denton
  • Carly Shorter

Previous Non-Breakfast Hosts:

  • Jesse Archer
  • Nick Rutherford
  • Dan Weck
  • Dom Agnew

Rotorua

Rotorua's 95.9 MORE FM is a local radio station based on Ranolf Street in central Rotorua, broadcasting across the Rotorua region. The main transmitter is at Pukepoto, 9 km east of central Rotorua. A second transmitter in the Paeroa Range broadcasts to Reporoa, Broadlands, Ngakuru, Waikite Valley and Tokoroa on 89.2, and can also be picked up across most parts of the Northern side of Taupo. This station was formerly Lakes 96FM. Other than Te Arawa FM, the Morning Fix with Andy George becomes the only other local breakfast show, with opposition station 'The Hits' losing all breakfast locality from Monday 28 April 2014.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 5:00am – 10:00am: The Morning Fix with Andy George

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Mornings 6:00am – 10:00am: Quentin McIntosh / Lewie Tregoweth / Andy George

Gisborne/Wairoa

MORE FM Gisborne/Wairoa is a local radio station broadcasting from the heart of Gisborne City. The station was originally branded as 89FM and owned by Gisborne Media Centre, RadioWorks purchased the assets of Gisborne Media Centre in February 2005 and in May 2005 rebranded the station as MORE FM. Originally on 89.3, MORE FM Gisborne moved to 89.9 (rural coverage) and 98.9 (city coverage) in early 2007. Another repeater (also on 98.9) was set up to service the northern Hawkes Bay town of Wairoa in April 2007. The 89.9 frequency was adjusted to 90.1 in late 2010.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Bevan Chapman
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Alisha Birrell

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Features the More Sport Saturday Sport show between 7-8am.

Taupo

93.6 MORE FM Taupo is a radio station based in Taupo, broadcasting across the Central Plateau. The MORE FM brand replaced the previous local branded 93.5 KIS FM. MORE FM Taupo take great pride in putting a tremendous amount of focus on their surrounding community and play an extremely active role in local events such as The New Zealand Ironman & The Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge . The station has regularly made the finals at the New Zealand Radio Awards in a variety of different categories including winning Best Provincial Breakfast Show in 2010, 2012 & 2014 plus being named Provincial Station of The Year in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 & 2014.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Andrew Leiataua
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Dougal Morison

Local Weekends Shows:

  • Weekend Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00pm: Dougal Morison
  • Saturday Daytime 10:00 - 2:00pm: Dougal Morison

Taranaki

93.2 MORE FM, was formerly 93.2 Energy FM, named after the energy province. Broadcasts from central New Plymouth and broadcasts to all of Taranaki and can be heard in North Wanganui

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Ken Swann and Anna Richardson
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Nichola Maclean

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Erin Johnston, William Johnston (not related) and Anna Richardson alternate; Including 'The Best of The Morning Fix with Ken and Anna' 9am-10am (highlights and interviews from the week)

Hawke's Bay

92.7 MORE FM Hawke's Bay is a local radio station based in Hastings, New Zealand, broadcasting across Hawke's Bay. The MORE FM brand replaced the previous local station HOT 93FM, which began broadcasting in December 1983 as Radio Hawke's Bay 93FM.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: MORE FM BREAKFAST with Waggs and Megan

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Justin Rae

Previous Breakfast hosts:

  • Gareth Lischner
  • Dave Nicholas
  • Alisha Neilson
  • Mark McCarron
  • Amy Nilsson

Previous non-breakfast hosts:

  • Natasha Knox
  • Hayden Matthews

Wanganui

92.8 MORE FM Wanganui (formerly Star FM) is a local radio station based in central Wanganui.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Craig and Sue

Manawatu

92.2 MORE FM Manawatu is a local radio station based in the Hub Mall in central Palmerston North broadcasting across the Manawatu region. Before the MORE FM re-branding in 2005, this station was a very famous heritage station known as 2XS FM. The station's transmitter is located atop Wharite Peak in the Ruahine Range, approximately 20 km northeast of Palmerston North.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: "Mike West in the Morning" – Mike West, Gareth Pringle and Renee Pink
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Justin Evans

Weekend announcers include Justin Evans, Gareth Pringle, Sam West and Renee Pink

More FM Manawatu maintains a mostly local lineup during daytimes, the exception being Geoff Stagg hosting the morning show. The station has also been well represented in the annual New Zealand radio awards. At the 2008 awards the station won Best Regional Radio Station and were finalists for Best Regional Breakfast Show (Mike West in the Morning) and Best Regional Non-Breakfast Host (Tania Burgess, who previously hosted the 10–3 pm show). In 2010 they won Regional Station of the Year, Best Regional Non-Breakfast Show for Justin and Kendall (Justin Evans and Kendall Forbes), and Best Community Campaign for the "Ron A Thon". In 2011 they won Regional Station of the Year, Best Regional Breakfast Show, Best Programmer for Darren Wallace, Best Regional Sales Team, and were finalists for Best Regional Non-Breakfast. In 2012 they won Best Regional Breakfast Show and in 2013 they won Regional Station of the Year. In 2014 they won Best Regional Breakfast Show and Best New Broadcaster: On Air - Renee Pink.

Horowhenua

104.2 MORE FM Horowhenua is a local radio station based in central Levin broadcasting to the Horowhenua district. Before the MORE FM re-branding in 2005 this station was named Horowhenua's 95FM. Dave Key presents the live breakfast show, with the rest of the day being networked.. On 21 October 2010 the station was subject to Govt frequency change and now broadcasts from 104.2 MHz

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Dave Key

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Unknown

Kapiti

MORE FM Kapiti began broadcasting in the 1990s on 99.6 MHz as a relay of the MORE FM programme from Wellington but with locally generated commercial breaks. In 2004 when RadioWorks rebranded many of their local stations as MORE FM local station 2XX FM became 90.2 MORE FM and the existing MORE FM station was replaced with a relay of the Wellington The Breeze programme with locally generated commercials. 2XX once broadcast on 1377 AM as well as 90.2 MHz. In August 2010 after a government ordered frequency realignment, Kapiti became 90.3 MORE FM.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Ray Heron Breakfast Show

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday 6 am - 10am: Unknown

Wairarapa

Wairarapa's 89.5, 105.5 & 105.9 MORE FM is a radio station based in Masterton broadcasting to the Wairarapa province. The station was founded by Paul Henry in 1991 as "89.3 TODAY FM - Never far away, the promise of today." Paul Henry hosted the breakfast show with the Breakfast Crew, Ian McNae, John Shearer & Georgina Beyer. 3 News' Anchor Hilary Barry wrote and presented local news, with former MP Georgina Beyer also a newsreader on TODAY FM. Local identity Rick Long hosted a morning talkback show and Geoff Anderson and Kevin Golding hosted the day and drive shows. Overnight More FM Wellington was simulcast on TODAY FM. In 1992 Paul Henry sold the station to PORT FM in Timaru. The station introduced a new slogan, 89 TODAY FM - The Music Leader. After six months the station moved to Masterton and was rebranded as HITZ 89FM Wairarapa's Best Music. XS Corporation in Manawatu purchased the station in the mid-1990s. This saw big changes for the station with resources, personalities and a further commitment to the region from parent station, 92.2XS FM in Palmerston North. Martin Good was introduced to the Wairarapa as host of a new breakfast show and former local Gareth Pringle was appointed to a new drive and weekend show. These changes were popular and combined with a reduction in local programming on rival station Wairarapa FM, HITZ 89FM emerged as the new market leader, for the first time, a position maintained today by MORE FM.

In 2010, the main frequency of 89.3 was adjusted to 89.5 MHz in line with government frequency requirements. The station broadcasts on 89.5 MHz from the Otahoua transmitter near Masterton, and on 105.5 MHz from the Popoiti transmitter north of Martinborough to serve the said town. MORE FM began broadcasting to the Castlepoint Beach region on 105.9 MHz in 2010.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 5:00am – 10:00am: The Brent Gare Breakfast Show, local news with Aaron Lavery, sport with Brent Gare.

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Chris Cogdale and the Totally Serious Sport Show with Trev's Sports, from 8am, since 1992.

Wellington

Wellington is the birthplace of the MORE FM brand, with the first broadcast of a More FM station occurring there on 6 May 1991 as 99/100 MORE FM. "Not Too Heavy Not Too Soft". The station went to air with award winning Breakfast Host Simon "Swampy" Marsh and Anemarie Gold. The station later became known as 94.7/100 MORE FM following a change in frequency. Today the station is known as 95.3/99.7 MORE FM, again following a change in frequency.

In 2007 the 98.9 MHz frequency originally used by More FM Wellington was relocated to 94.7 MHz (formerly used by Channel Z) and provided coverage to the Hutt Valley area of Wellington. The more powerful 100 MHz frequency provided coverage to the majority of the Wellington urban area, and could often be heard at the top of the South Island and into the southern Wairarapa. In 2010, the station frequencies were moved to 95.3 and 99.7 respectively after a nationwide reorganisation of the FM band. The main transmitter is located atop Mount Kaukau in Khandallah, 6 km north of central Wellington, and broadcasts on 99.7. Two secondary transmitters are located at Haywards on 99.7, to infill much of the Hutt Valley, and at Fitzherbert (between Naenae and Wainuiomata) on 95.3, to infill Lower Hutt and Wainuiomata.

After its establishment in Wellington, the More FM brand spread across the country to Christchurch and then Auckland, although the programme was not networked. This would happen several years later.

The first networked weekday drive show (hosted by Josh Van Berkel & Tom McKenzie) was originally based from this station before relocating to Auckland. The day is now completely networked.

Nelson

92.8 MORE FM Nelson is a local radio station broadcasting from the heart of Nelson city to the Tasman District; including Motueka & Takaka on 92 MHz and Murchison on 94.1 MHz. Before the MORE FM re-branding in 2005 this station was known famously as Fifeshire FM. To this day the station broadcasts from the historic Fifeshire House however the breakfast show is currently Si & Gary (local news & weather by Daniel Tipping) fed from More FM Christchurch.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Blair Kiddey

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 7:00am – 9:00am: Jonathan Cloudesley or Blair Kiddey (Mostly Sports Talk)

Marlborough

MORE FM Marlborough is based in Blenheim and is the most recent addition to the MORE FM group of stations. At the end of 2007 MediaWorks purchased Marlborough Media which included two local stations, Sounds FM and Easy FM. Easy FM was rebranded as The Breeze earlier in 2008 and in August 2008 Sounds FM was rebranded as MORE FM. MORE FM Marlborough broadcasts on 92.9 MHz in Blenheim where the station is based, on 94.7 in Picton and also on 89.9 MHz in Kaikoura.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Glenn Kirby and Natasha Knox
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Josh Fogden

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Glenn Kirby

Christchurch

92.1 MORE FM Christchurch is a radio station broadcasting across Canterbury. The station was one of the original More FM stations. The station broadcasts on 92.1 across Canterbury and on 94.9 in Sumner/Redcliffs and 99.1 in Akaora.

The station was started as an adult contemporary (AC) format station and continues with that format to this day. More FM Christchurch was operated by the Frader Group Limited. The first hosts of the morning show were James Daniels and Ken Ellis who had moved from 91ZM. The show was also broadcast on Christchurch local TV station, Cry TV in its early shows.

From 1 April 1997 Simon Barnett and Phil Gifford became the new MORE FM Christchurch breakfast hosts after moving from Christchurch's then local 91ZM station. [3] Si and Phil's show was networked into Dunedin from 1996 when The Radio Network started a networked ZM station in Dunedin. After Si and Phil moved to MORE FM Christchurch a new MORE FM station was established in Dunedin taking the Si and Phil breakfast show and running their own local programming during the day.

In April 2003 Gary McCormick joined the breakfast show in preparation for Phil Gifford's departure later in 2003. Networking of Si and Gary's breakfast show to Dunedin was discontinued at the end of 2004 following the changes made to the network at the time. The show has been networked to Nelson since 2007 and in 2014 became the new MORE FM network breakfast show now networked to Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland in addition to Nelson and Christchurch.

From 2015 Christchurch will be the host of the new network drive show presented by Jason Gunn and Lana Searle, previously Jason Gunn worked on rival station Classic Hits presenting a networked drive show from Christchurch, Jason left Classic Hits at the end of 2013 and moved to More FM Christchurch to present the drive show locally. In 2015 this show will become a nationwide show.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Dave Nicholas

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Chris Bond
  • Saturday Daytime 10:00am - 2:00pm: Lana Searle
  • Saturday Afternoon 2:00pm – 7:00pm: Dave Nicholas
  • Sunday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Luke Valentine
  • Sunday Daytime 10:00am - 2:00pm: Catlin Hewitt
  • Sunday Afternoon 2:00pm – 7:00pm: Kieron Atkinson
  • Other Part-Time announcers include: Liv Webber, Adam Percival and Bridget De Goldi

Dunedin

97.4 MORE FM Dunedin is a radio station broadcasting across Dunedin. MORE FM was originally broadcast in Dunedin on 98.2 and was locally presented, except for the Christchurch 'Si & Gary' breakfast show which was networked. In 2004 as part of the MORE FM brand roll out across the country, it moved to the 97.4 MHz frequency, and replaced Dunedin radio station 4XO, creating 97.4 MORE FM Dunedin. An integration of the former presenters of 4XO & 98 MORE FM were can now be heard on the station. The 98.2 MHz frequency is now Dunedin's Easy Listening Breeze 98.2 MHz – another of RadioWorks' networked stations.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Damian Newell & Kellie Ashdown
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Sonia Van De Klundert

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday 6:00am – 2:00pm: Trev Hill

Previous Breakfast hosts:

  • Breffni O'Rourke
  • Grant Millman
  • Nicky Rennie

Previous Non-Breakfast Hosts:

  • Tracey Chambers
  • Glenn Stewart
  • Gareth Lischner
  • Jason "J.T." Tikao
  • Aaron Simmonds
  • Gary Pointon

Balclutha

Local Balclutha radio station Big River Radio operates as part of the MORE FM network on 93.7 MHz. The station broadcasts locally between 5 am and 1 pm and relays Dunedin's MORE FM outside these hours. In recent years the station has been branded as MORE FM's Big River Radio during local programming. The station plays all the same songs in the same sequence as the other MORE FM stations even during local programming.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 5:00am – 1:00pm: Brad Jeffrey

Central Otago

Central Otago's MORE FM, which is based from Alexandra replaced Radio Central in 2004. The station broadcasts on 90.3 and 94.3 MHz and covers Alexandra, Cromwell and other parts of Central Otago. Following the rebrand to More FM the station remained local between 6am and 7pm, this was in line with other More FM stations at the time. In September 2008 all copywriting and audio production moved from the Alexandra office to the Queenstown "hub." More recently all local programming on this station has been replaced with programming from Q92 MORE FM in Queenstown.

Queenstown and Wanaka

Q92 MORE FM Queenstown began broadcasting in Queenstown on 99.2 MHz after local station Resort Radio was rebranded as MORE FM. More FM Queenstown also broadcasts on 99.4 MHz in Wanaka. In 2009 MORE FM traded places with Q92 The Breeze on the FM dial. The Breeze was started in Queenstown after Radioworks purchased local station Q92 FM and rebranded the station as Q92 The Breeze. The swap also saw the local breakfast announcers on The Breeze (Margo and Emma) move to MORE FM Queenstown, with The Breeze in Queenstown now taking a networked breakfast. Since this change Emma has left MORE FM. The change also saw MORE FM in Queenstown become Q92 MORE FM.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Margo Berryman and Henry Youngman
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Janey Newlands

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Weekend Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Philippa Collins (Flip)

Southland

89.2 MORE FM Southland broadcasts to the Southland region. The location of transmission is the BCL site at Hedgehope. The station was originally started by a group of local investors as Foveaux Radio (4XF, 1224 kHz) in 1982, the station was bought by Radio Otago in the late 1980s and started broadcasting as "89.2 Foveaux FM" in the early 1990s.

Foveaux FM became Southland's 89.2 MORE FM in January 2005 as part of RadioWorks' move to rebrand all 'heritage' stations as MORE FM. MORE FM also continued to broadcast on 1224 AM until October 2007 when BSport launched on this frequency. The 91.6 MHz frequency that Radio Pacific (BSport's predecessor) broadcast on was used to launch The Breeze into Southland. In December 2007 Southland's More FM began broadcasting in the Te Anau area on 96.0 MHz.

Local Weekday Shows:

  • Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Gretchen Blomfield and Simon Edwards
  • Daytime 10:00am – 3:00pm: Simon Edwards

Local Weekend Shows:

  • Saturday Breakfast 6:00am – 10:00am: Chris Newbold

Previous Breakfast hosts:

  • James McRobie

MORE FM News & Sport

A news and sport bulletin is broadcast on all MORE FM stations seven days a week. The news is supplied from the Radio Live news room and is sub edited by MORE FM. During weekday Breakfast, 6am - 9am the bulletin is every half hour. From 9am - 6pm weekdays and 6am - 6pm on weekends the bulletin in at the top of the hour only. After news, the presenter often reads out traffic and weather for Auckland listeners.

Presenters include Angie Skerrett (6am - 10am) and Jennifer Bainbridge (11am - 6pm) during the week. Geoff Bryan, Tracey Donaldson, Louise Pagonis, Jenny Marcroft and Liz Parsons present across the weekend.

Previous Nationwide Announcers

Announcer Show Duration Reason for Leaving Last known station
Amber Peebles Network breakfast show 2011-2012 Left to pursue television project
Asher Bastion All Nighter 2005–2006 Moved to Life FM Life FM Programme Director
Dane Anderson All Nighter 2006-2012 "Company cost cutting" Remains a 10-2pm Weekend Network Host on the station
Dan Berstone Afternoons 1 - 4pm 2011 - 2014 Change in network lineup Local MORE FM Auckland daytime show
Dominic Bowden "The MORE FM Most Wanted" Night show January 2005 – June/July 2005 Left to focus on New Zealand Idol commitments at TVNZ Currently employed by More FM Parent Company Mediaworks TV division to Host The X Factor New Zealand
Josh Van Berkel Network Drive show (with Tom McKenzie) 2009–2011 Moved to Christchurch
Marc Ellis Network breakfast 2011 - 2013 Resgined from show
Hayley Holt Network breakfast 2013 Auckland based breakfast was cancelled
Tom McKenzie Network Drive show (with Josh Van Berkel) 2009–2011 Moved to The Edge FM Mai FM - Breakfast Show Producer
Lee Plummer Network Night show and Saturday 10-2pm host 2007–2011 Went on maternity leave. Was expected to make a return the following year, but was cut in favour of Joe Cotton Weekend Announcer on The Breeze
Stu Tolan Network breakfast 2011 - 2013 Auckland based breakfast was cancelled
Tarsha Tolson Night show 2005–2007 Moved to Wellington Breakfast Show Breakfast host on Wellington's 94.7/100 More FM until 2011
Dean Young Network Drive 2011 - 2014 Change in afternoon lineup.

Defunct MORE FM stations

Hawke's Bay's 92 MORE FM was New Zealand's first franchised MORE FM radio station and began transmission from its Napier studios in 1994 and continued until the mid to late 1990s when the MORE FM name was dropped to become 'Hawke's Bay's 92FM'. The station broadcast on 91.9 MHz from studios in Hastings Street and featured Peter Mac (now The Breeze Christchurch) and Nicki Sunderland on breakfast. Other announcers included Kyllee Higgins (now Kyllee King-Turner), Scotty Mac, Nik Menzies, Cath White, James Milner, Kev Stanton and Greg Wattam. The station's slogan was 'More Music, More Variety' which was in line with the other MORE FM stations around the country at that time. The station was operated as a franchise by Radio Otago. In 1996, 92 MORE FM was relocated to Hastings where it joined fellow Radio Otago station Hot 93 in the BNZ Building. Live content was reduced around this time with the night show being fully automated. In 1997 Radio Otago sold their 7 North Island stations to Energy Enterprises, at this point the MORE FM branding was dropped and later the station was replaced with network station Solid Gold FM. Solid Gold has since been rebranded as The Sound.

Kapiti's 99.6 MORE FM began transmission across the Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua regions around 1994 and remained on air until 2004 when it was replaced by The Breeze. The station's programming was generated from MORE FM in Wellington, although it ran an entirely separate program to the Wellington station outside of breakfast. Voicebreaks were recorded in advance by the announcer in the Wellington studio. Localised weather forecasts, station IDs and jingles also helped create a local sound. Interestingly, 99.6 MORE FM played a slightly different music mix to the Wellington station where its programming originated from, although they both shared the 'More Music, More Variety' and later 'Today's Best Music Mix' slogans.

Dunedin's 98 MORE FM began broadcasting in Dunedin around 1997. The breakfast show, originally presented by Simon Barnett and Phil Gifford was a simulcast from Christchurch's 92 MORE FM. Other shows were a mixture of locally produced shows and shows prerecorded also from MORE FM in Christchurch. 98 More FM was replaced with a simulcast of The Breeze Christchurch when local station 4XO was rebranded as 97.4 MORE FM.

References

  1. ^ http://www.mediaworks.co.nz/
  2. ^ "Doug Gold: The More FM Story". 1 September 2001. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  3. ^ Decision No. 294 Commerce Commission, Wellington New Zealand, 1997.


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