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The Hits Northland is an adult contemporary radio station based in Whangarei, New Zealand. It is a station of The Hits radio network, and is owned and operated by New Zealand Media and Entertainment. It covers the Northland region using four frequencies – 96.4FM in the Far North, 106.1FM in the Bay of Islands, 96.4FM in the Mid North and 95.6FM in Whangarei. The station is located on Bank Street, Whangarei, and streams live on iHeartRadio.〔 The station schedule includes both local and national programmes. Polly & Grant, the Wellington-based breakfast show with Pauline Gillespie and Grant Kereama, includes entertainment interviews and half-hourly news, sport and weather updates. The local daytime show, hosted by Charmaine Soljak, includes local news and promotions. Other shows include drive with Stace Morrison and Paul Flynn, weeknights with Justin Tikao, weekend mornings with Peter Dakin, weekend afternoons with rotating hosts, the Saturday night commercial-free Party Mix, and Sunday nights with Blair Dowling.〔 The station had control of its own music until 1996. Since then it has played music from the 1970s to present day, dropping 1970s music in 2005 and dropping 1980s music in 2011. In 2015 the station's playlist included Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and George Ezra. Music from New Zealand artists like Brooke Fraser, Benny Tipene, Lorde, Kimbra, Jason Kerrison, Ruby Frost, Anika Moa and Avalanche City are also played on the station. ==History== The Hits Northland began as Radio Northland, a radio station in Whangarei on 1026AM, Kaikohe on 1215AM and Kaitaia on 1026AM. It had the call sign 1ZN. The station became part of Classic Hits FM in 1993. In the late 1990s it moved to FM - 96.4FM in the Far North, 106.1FM in the Bay of Islands, 96.4FM in the Mid North and 95.6FM in Whangarei. From 1998 onwards programming was limited to a local breakfast show between 6am and 10am including weekends, and outside these times most programming originating from Classic Hits studios in Auckland. Newstalk ZB took over the station's AM frequencies in 2001 and 2005. In 2012 local programming was reduced to weekdays between 6am and 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.〔 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 Northland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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