RadioActive.fm

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Radio Active is an alternative radio station broadcasting in Wellington, New Zealand on 88.6FM (formally 89 FM) as well as www.radioactive.fm. It began as the student radio station for Victoria University of Wellington Students' Association (VUWSA) in 1977, broadcasting on the AM frequency. It 1981 it became the first radio station in New Zealand to ommence broadcast on the newly-available FM frequency. In 1989 VUWSA decided that Radio Active could not make anymore losses, and sold the station to radioactive ltd, in the hope that the station could become financially viable. Radio Active commenced on-line broadcasting in 1997, being one of the first radio stations to do so. Today radioactive.fm has a very strong presence and following throughout the capital. It has a very strong listener ship of around 45000 weekly plus a huge on line audience via www.radioactive.fm. With a highly talented pool of volunteer announcers, many of whom have been with the station for over fifteen years, Radio Active is renowned for the wide variety of interesting music that it plays, as attested to by Brian Eno amongst others...