

The Hits was originally known as Classic Hits up until April 2014. Later that year, it came under the ownership of New Zealand Media and Entertainment. In April 2014, the network re-branded from Classic Hits to The Hits to attract more younger listeners.

The network targets 25- to 54-year-old homeowners, socially-active parents and price-conscious household shoppers. Īn estimated 282,000 people listen to The Hits every week, including 85,000 people in Auckland region. Despite a major reduction in local programmes since 1993, most stations still have a local three-hour breakfast programme or a six-hour daytime programme.

John "Boggy" McDowell was an announcer on the Southland station for 33 years. Many have given a platform to broadcasting names like Selwyn Toogood, Paul Holmes, Peter Sinclair, Jenny-May Clarkson (nee Coffin) and Jason Gunn. Most of the individual stations started out as local AM stations owned by state broadcaster Radio New Zealand. The Hits has had the broadest broadcast reach of any radio network in the country since 1996, and is now available on 40 full-power FM frequencies and 18 iHeartRadio streams. It was set up by Government broadcaster Radio New Zealand in 1993 by consolidating existing stations into a single brand and has been privately owned since 1996. The Hits is a Hot adult contemporary music radio network, broadcasting to 26 markets across New Zealand.

The all new series premieres on May 17, 2023. Headlee will ask the questions: Why didn’t these murders make the news headlines? Did law enforcement do enough to solve these crimes? And how do racial disparities impact these types of investigations, past and present? Plus, we’ll explore new evidence which may crack the cold case wide open again. Journalist and Public Radio veteran Celeste Headlee (NPR, PBS, TEDx) examines old case files and interviews the investigators and family members who are still haunted by these killings. The media dubbed him “The Freeway Phantom.”įrom iHeartRadio and Tenderfoot TV, a new podcast reinvestigates the 50 year old unsolved murders of these young girls. Their bodies were discarded alongside DC freeways. Between 19, six black girls went missing in the Washington D.C.
