Radio Forestland – 1ZO

Radio Forestland was a radio station in Tokoroa, New Zealand.

The station was started by Radio New Zealand as Radio Forestland, broadcasting on 1420AM with the call sign 1ZO. The station was started in the mid-1960s and in 1978 moved to 1413AM after the frequency spacing on the AM band in New Zealand was changed from 10 kHz to 9 kHz. Local content on the station was limited to mornings only, and outside this time the station broadcast the 1ZH Hamilton programme.

In July 1996 the New Zealand Government sold off the commercial arm of Radio New Zealand, the sale included Radio Forestland. The new owner was The Radio Network, a subsidiary of APN News & Media and Clear Channel Communications, which operated as a division of the Australian Radio Network. – Wikipedia.

On Saturday for the teenagers was Requests and people would drop in request for songs all through the week into 1ZO and get their song played on saturdays.
many New Zealanders, including Prime Ministers and other important and not so well known people were interviewed by the staff at 1ZO.

Radio Forestland, 1ZO, was a very popular radio station that the locals listened to daily.

Ropey.

If the image does not have a caption I don’t know who is int he photo or what it is about, but was given it as a part of a collection of local photos.

I will add more photos as I find them.

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