So true

jon and nathen were the bets morning people i had ever listend too, they were fucken awesome and "piss urself laughing" funny too
has Kiwi Fm taken over channel z???

does bomber still have his late night show???

nope just dont listen to channel z,

yeah i read about it being launched and only read posts that rumoured it would replace channel Z...

so anyways
does bomber still do his show on sunday nights??
are there any of the channel Z team on Kiwi Fm???
i havent been able to pick up channel Z since the stupid edge stole their frequency except from sometimes in my car,

or listen on the web...

16k stream (lo-fi for slow connections)...

[ http://z16.audio.01.net.nz:8000 ]

// yeah i read about it being launched and only read
// posts that rumoured it would replace channel Z...

I think you need to work on your reading comprehension. There were no rumours - it was announced outright about 6 weeks ago, and there was big media campaign in the days leading up to Feb 6, when the switch took place.

// does bomber still do his show on sunday nights??
no.

// are there any of the channel Z team on Kiwi Fm???
yes.

// i havent been able to pick up channel Z since the stupid
// edge stole their frequency except from sometimes in my car,

try their website for local frequencies, and, as mentioned elsewhere, there's online streams and the sky 100 option as well.

[ http://www.kiwifm.co.nz/base.html ]

//Karyn Hay

Reason enough for me to give it a try.

Why don't you offer your services?

Does anyone know the full list of presenters and who is this Simon chap in the mornings? Is Coleman or Phoebe Speirs part of the line up or have they moved onto other things?

Sorry, Simon = James.

(All them white boys names, they all sound the same to me.)

well amz is definately on to continue her punk show etc.

dunno about the rest

"appealing to the masses" ?? Do you think that's what they're trying to do by going 100% NZ music? Surely if they wanted to appeal to the masses they'd pollute our airwaves with even more totally mainstream american crap.
In this country there has always been bad cultural cringe over art forms - television, film, music - like, if it's local, it can't be as good as if it was American / British. I've never understood this. Why are people so quick to assert that kiwis are the best (For e.g.) rugby players or the best cricket players yet they won't support their own music industry?
I think that the adverts are right, it is about bloody time, and through kiwi fm, canwest have gained a listener in me. I never would have switched from bfm to channel z, but the thought of hearing new NZ acts, old NZ acts, obscure NZ acts, really does it for me.

// And this must be a fuckin joke ?
// "and actress Danielle Cormack, who is likely to develop a roots music show. "

Why? Is Danielle Cormack not allowed to be a massive roots fan?

Would it help if she was a brown male?

no issue issue regards her gender or ethnicity (a rather weak arguement on your part accusing me of racism and sexism)

Rather I think the lack of affinity with the NZ music and in particular Roots music is a worry.

For fucks sake she's an actor not a muscian or music journalist or DJ she has no credentials, it's an insult to those whom are passionate about the music rather than "play acting" at being a DJ.

PS And I think she lacks substantially as an actor aswell.

// she's an actor not a muscian or music journalist or DJ she has no credentials

How do you think djs become djs? Hatch from eggs with taste fully formed and cue-ability honed?

// Rather I think the lack of affinity with the NZ music and in particular Roots music is a worry.

How do you know she has little affinity with NZ music and roots? Being an actor doesn't automatically exclude her from being a hardcore Kiwi roots fan.

But I can see that if a person is primarily actor, it is likely that they will spent most of their time developing their acting skills, rather than music.

// For fucks sake she's an actor not a muscian or music journalist or DJ she has no credentials, it's an insult to those whom are passionate about the music rather than "play acting" at being a DJ.

Being a radio DJ requires, among other things, performance skills, and as an actor, Danielle Cormack has those skills. I'd rather see someone who is an enthusiastic amateur with good radio skills host such a show, than have some guru expert who ums and ahs her way through a dull, monotonous show.

I'm not willing to write off Danielle Cormack as some chick who thought it might be quite kewl to, like, be a DJ. Let us see if she has the rootiness before we dismiss her.

// than have some guru expert who ums and ahs her way through a dull, monotonous show.

heh. oh, hold on...

heh, cheers, jj.

yeah, I'm a bit biased towards spinning the old chch tunes. 'tis easy enough to play the tonnes of welly material in the studio, but a lot of the 90s chch stuff I have at home is, like you say, not on such a high rotate.

// my basic test of radio DJ quality is if at any stage I yell
// out "SHUT UP AND PLAY SOME MUSIC!", then that DJ is crap.

ah, well, I'd pass with flying colours then. me and my co-host have a minimum three songs in a row ethic before any voice break, and then we usually just do a 'tell the punters what that was' break.

what I find interesting about KIWI is the number of times they *don't* tell you what the band/song is. I'm sitting here doing another playlist for the day, and I'd have thought it was the DJ's actual job to tell you what you were listening to.

Still, if their high-rotate song for the day is going to be Shihad's 'Alive', I'm all for it. What a great fucking song. How awesome is Tom's drumming?