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The Hits Southland (previously 4ZA) is an adult contemporary radio station in Southland, New Zealand. 4ZA began broadcasting in Southland on 820 AM in 1956 as a commercial station operated by the New Zealand Broadcasting Service. With the change in band frequency spacing in late 1978, 4ZA moved to 864 AM. Before 1989 radio stations in New Zealand were assigned call signs; 4ZA was branded as its call sign name 4ZA until 1993, when it became Classic Hits ZAFM. In 1979 John "Boggy" Mcdowall joined the station and took on the role as the breakfast show host. Despite all the changes made to the station, Boggy remained the station's breakfast host until the end of 2012. For a time Boggy was also the station's Programme Director. In 1991 when it began broadcasting on 98.8 FM, 4ZA was the first commercial station in Southland to broadcast on FM. Years later 4ZA also switched to FM in Te Anau, broadcasting on 90.4FM. Between 1991 and 1993 4ZA ran a country music show on the AM frequency on Sunday mornings and a Classic Hits show at the same time on the FM frequency; the same was done weekday mornings where Talkback would run on the AM frequency. It was at this time that announcers started calling the station Classic Hits 4ZA-FM. From 7 pm to 6 am the station carried RNZ Community Network programming in simulated stereo. In 1993 Radio New Zealand rebranded many of their heritage stations as Classic Hits, but some of the stations maintained part of the heritage name into the branding. For 4ZA the station became known as Classic Hits ZAFM. For most locals the change was seamless, as if the announcers had simply started calling the station ZA-FM instead of 4ZA-FM. The 7pm to 6am show was replaced with a stereo feed from Auckland branded Classic Hits, originally with Auckland advertising. In 1994 Classic Hits ZAFM stopped broadcasting on AM and the 864AM frequency was used by Newstalk ZB, as it still is today. In 1996 Radio New Zealand sold their commercial operation; as a result all Classic Hits branded stations were sold to The Radio Network. In 1998 Classic Hits ZAFM was reduced to just 4 hours of local programming between 6 and 10 am 7 days a week. Outside this time nationwide shows based from Auckland took over, and the announcers simply called the station Classic Hits. The change has seen the station turn into a network station with a local breakfast show. In the past local listeners enjoyed local competitions such as Rices Sound of Southland, but now this is a nationwide competition known as The Secret Sound. Also, calling the studio is done by using a nationwide 0800 phone number instead of a local Invercargill number, even during the breakfast show. In 2001 all Classic Hits stations were renamed to include the full frequency in the branding. For Classic Hits ZAFM this meant the station became ''Classic Hits 98.8 ZAFM''. From 2005 onwards the "ZA" was dropped from much of the station branding, particularly with branding created from Auckland; however, locally announcers still included the "ZA" in the branding. Today the station is branded as ''Classic Hits 98-8'', while local announcers normally call the station ''Classic Hits'' (as with the network announcers) or ''Southland's Classic Hits''. 2006 marked the 50th anniversary of 4ZA and Classic Hits ZAFM. In October a reunion was held for all employees that ever worked on this station. In 2012 local programming was reduced even further, when all Classic Hits stations in New Zealand were reduced to 3 hours local programming with the local breakfast show ending at 9AM. On April 28, 2014 all stations part of the Classic Hits network were rebranded as The Hits. A networked breakfast presented by Pauline Gillespie and Grant Kareama was introduced to almost all The Hits stations with the former breakfast announcer moved to present a 6-hour show between 9am and 3pm. Southland however retained its local breakfast show and continues to run network programming after 9 am. ==Programmes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Hits Southland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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