Radio stations from New Zealand

This page lists 88 internet radio stations broadcasting from New Zealand. The most listened to are The Rock - NZ's #1 rock radio station, 新西兰中文广播电台 FM90.6 Radio Chinese, 95bFM - FLAC and 95bFM - 256Kbps MP3. Each station was checked for a working stream, so nothing here is a dead link.

By genre the strongest here are music (8), classic rock (6), rock (6), alternative (5), christian (5) and easy listening (5). Broadcasts are mainly in english (54), hindi (2) and cantonese (1). Stations are spread across the country, with the most coming from Auckland, Nelson, Tauranga and Christchurch.

Sound quality varies: 13 stations stream at 192 kbps or higher, the best being Beagle 88.1 at 320 kbps, while 24 run at 96 kbps or below and are better suited to a phone on mobile data. By format the mix is MP3 (44), AAC (24) and AAC+ (17). MP3 is the safe universal choice, while AAC sounds better for the same bandwidth.

Nothing needs to be installed to listen to radio from New Zealand: the player runs in the browser, on a phone the same as on a computer. Stations you like can be kept with the heart icon — they are stored in your own browser, so they are waiting the next time you open the site, with no account and nothing sent anywhere. The track currently playing is shown at the bottom of the screen for stations that broadcast that information.

Listening to stations from New Zealand online means hearing what people there actually hear — the same news bulletins, the same adverts, the same songs in rotation — which no streaming service reproduces.