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Kiss-FM is Mount Maunganui’s only local radio station.
It went to air in February 2009 and has been on-air 24 hours a day ever since. Kiss-FM is local. And we mean really local. Tauranga is somewhere else. We broadcast Mount wide and when you cross the bridge into the beach you’re in Kiss-FM territory.
At Kiss-FM we love guitars and love to rock! We enjoy playing bands that should be getting commercial air-time on mainstream radio but aren’t. So you’ll hear many of your favourite bands but also rock that’s never been broadcast in the Bay before. Kiss-FM plays live rock, instrumental rock, progressive rock, the blues, Alt-Country and acoustic music – or music that never gets airtime on mainstream commercial radio.
Many listeners tell us they are worn out by endless over-the-top radio commercials. They're fatigued by juvenile jocks and they want a break! That's where Kiss-FM comes in. We aim to be the country's first non-commercial rock radio station! We know there is a local audience keen to hear a music driven format, with the emphasis on rock and the Mount Maunganui beach life-style...
Kiss-FM is a station built for informed music enthusiasts to come together to the same place to listen, to request new songs, to discuss new music (at our Forum) or lie back and enjoy our specialist shows. We've built Kiss-FM as a big music library available to listeners in their own homes to use interactively. You pick the songs the station plays by choosing directly from our on-line playlist which has more than 10,000 songs (most commercial radio stations have around 700 songs on their playlists.)
And for the first time in NZ a radio station is broadcasting without live DJs, and we're putting the listener in charge. When you request music on-line your song choice will be heard in Mt Maunganui/Tauranga and around the world. Here’s how it works. You can choose to play 6 songs every 4 hours and you can do them all at once or spread your choices over the whole day. You can dedicate your songs and your dedication will show on the Kiss-FM web site.
At 10.30pm each week night our full ‘Late-Shift’ playlist comes on-line and this includes the metalcore rock that other rock radio stations won’t play. You can request these songs all night long but these songs will be off-line from Breakfast until the Late-Shift kicks in again at 10.30pm.
So here at Kiss-FM we're breaking the normal radio rules by playing more song styles and more music with less DJ clutter than any other station in the country. And it's all interactive with the click of a button on your mobile phone or PC anywhere in the world. So we hope you'll enjoy the music. That after all, is what radio should be about.
There are many people who have contributed to Kiss-FM. And we’d like to say thanks to the people who helped and provided inspiration along the way:
In the beginning there was Gary who said ‘Yes!’ Kiss-FM could have the transmitter site; Phil Grey who gave us the broadcast toys to get started; the music donated and inspired from the always and forever cool Vik 'I air-drum to DT' Guthrie, Nathan, Shane and Angry Jeff Fogden; the unforgettable students of Max-FM for the inspiration; Toast, Big J, MM, Josh, Adam, Joe, Amandala, Georgina and the students who helped build something from nothing. Thanks to the generous crew at Nga Iwi FM, JP and John for the great liners, Kunal, Jared and Jeremy for all the technical work behind the web site and Forum! Thanks to Vern Talbot and George Burt for technical advice. Thanks to Graham Clark - a musical inspiration and the designer behind the station ‘look’. Big thanks to John Hildebrand who made the 'second coming' of Kiss-FM possible. Thanks to Dionne who got the radio bug and made Kiss-FM better for it! Thanks to Guitar Dave for climbing every fret to the top and thanks to Big Rob for the metalwork! And grateful thanks to Joseph Karl - the student who taught the teacher how to do it right! Grateful thanks to Mike Butler who gave us the blues and thanks of course to the great musicians who make it all worthwhile. Special thanks to MP Simon Bridges and Glenn Harris for offering support when we needed it most! And last, overdue thanks to my wonderful wife Linda who makes all things possible for me and puts up with the endless radio discussions, emergency call-outs and the late night scheming and dreaming. Thanks too to Scooter and Nash for waiting for me to get home from the studio. You two cats rock!
