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  • Radio Hauraki Co-Founder David Gapes Has Died

    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 8 03:43:37 2024
    They thought it would only take a few weeks to get the Government to
    come around to allowing private broadcasting licences, but in fact it
    was 1111 days before the powers that be relented <https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/radio-hauraki-co-founder-and-legendary-commercial-radio-pioneer-david-gapes-dies/LLDRRZNGVVB3ZBLWHOVKPYCNWM/>:

    Fun bit:

    A documentary released in 2014 said when broadcasting began, the
    pirates weren’t actually playing records on the boat.

    The shows were recorded at an Auckland studio a week in advance,
    flown to Great Barrier Island, and ferried out to the radio boat,
    Tiri, and the records they played were often supplied by Air NZ
    pilots, who would go into Tower Records in Los Angeles and pick up
    a copy of every album in the top 40.

    A bit different from pirate radio in the UK, where Kenny Everett and
    company were actually broadcasting live from their boat.

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  • From Crash@21:1/5 to ldo@nz.invalid on Sat Mar 9 14:48:44 2024
    On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 03:43:37 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

    They thought it would only take a few weeks to get the Government to
    come around to allowing private broadcasting licences, but in fact it
    was 1111 days before the powers that be relented ><https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/radio-hauraki-co-founder-and-legendary-commercial-radio-pioneer-david-gapes-dies/LLDRRZNGVVB3ZBLWHOVKPYCNWM/>:

    Fun bit:

    A documentary released in 2014 said when broadcasting began, the
    pirates weren’t actually playing records on the boat.

    The shows were recorded at an Auckland studio a week in advance,
    flown to Great Barrier Island, and ferried out to the radio boat,
    Tiri, and the records they played were often supplied by Air NZ
    pilots, who would go into Tower Records in Los Angeles and pick up
    a copy of every album in the top 40.

    A bit different from pirate radio in the UK, where Kenny Everett and
    company were actually broadcasting live from their boat.

    Correct. The 'on air personalities' were not able to make any
    references to anything current (including the weather) and the
    advertisers were not able to claim their Hauraki advertising spend
    (because it was illegal) as a business expense.

    Not often mentioned but while Hauraki was broadcasting from their
    ship, the NZBC was allowing broadcasts from Radio I on 1YD (the
    Auckland youth-target NZBC station (from 10pm onwards). I recall
    Peter Burgham as their lead on-air host. Eventually both Hauraki and
    I were the first licenced privately-owned broadcasters.


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