Английская Википедия:Channel X (New Zealand radio station)
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Channel X is a New Zealand classic alternative music station owned by MediaWorks. The station can be heard in 16 markets across New Zealand, and online through MediaWorks's streaming platform, Rova.[1] The station plays uninterrupted music from the 1990s to 2010s with occasional one-liners or station IDs.[2] The station does not have announcers and does not air news, sport, weather or traffic information. It does have occasional advertising.
History
Channel X began on 8 May 2023, following the demise of news and talk station Today FM on 30 March. Regions where another brand was not allocated ran a music-only playlist of songs from the 80s and 90s as a stunt.
In mid-April, MediaWorks filed for trademark of the "Channel X" brand name and domain channelx.co.nz.[3]
The station was announced on 3 May through an encoded message playing on what would become Channel X's frequencies with the station's name, along with a shift in the stunt to a loop of various songs, TV show clips and news stories from the 90s and 2000s. The message was visible using an audio spectrogram.[4] On 5 May, the loop was updated to encode the date and time the station would begin airing.[5]
At noon on 8 May 2023, the station began with a countdown where they encoded "5.. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. hello :)" into the audio[6] before introducing the radio station that "doesn't have any prizes, or shows". This was followed by a skit referencing the Now That's What I Call Music! album compilations that were popular in the late 1990s. The first song to play on the station was the 2006 single "When You Were Young" by The Killers.[2][7]
Frequencies
Channel X broadcasts to 16 markets[2] on these FM frequencies: Шаблон:Div col start
- Auckland: 106.2
- Hamilton: 104.2
- Tauranga: 100.6
- Rotorua: 95.1
- Hawke's Bay: 106.3
- Manawatū: 94.6
- Kāpiti: 99.1
- Wairarapa: 98.3
- Wellington: 104.5
- Nelson: 96.0
- Blenheim: 95.3
- Timaru: 105.9
- Oamaru: 100.8
- Dunedin: 100.6
- Queenstown: 91.2
- Southland: 94.0
References
External links
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