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Radio stations in New Zealand

140 stations in New Zealand play in a browser and the 50 most opened are below. Press any of them and the sound starts here, not on another page.

140 playable · 224 listed in the directory · Snapshot 2026-10-04

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The Rock - NZ's #1 rock radio station

The most played station in New Zealand. It starts in this tab and keeps playing while you browse the rest of the directory.

Playable stations140Unique https streams a browser can open
Listed in the directory224Including http only entries a browser will not play
Typical bitrate128 kbpsMedian across the playable stations
At 128 kbps or better68%95 of 140 stations
A genuinely mixed set of formatsComputed from the 2026-10-04 snapshot

63% of New Zealand's listed entries are playable from a browser, 140 of 224. The shortfall is not dead stations. It is overwhelmingly the http problem, which is a certificate away from being fixed on each broadcaster's side and entirely outside this site's control.

No single format leads this listing: MP3, AAC and AAC+ are all well represented, with MP3 the commonest at only 44%. Genuinely mixed codec profiles are uncommon and they point at stations that set up their own streaming rather than buying it packaged.

The click counts across this listing are close together, so the ordering separates the stations far less than a numbered table implies. Treat it as a shelf: the difference between row five and row forty is often a handful of recorded opens, and the fastest way through a dial like this is to press play on things.

The listing is overwhelmingly English, at roughly 90% of the entries that state a language, with five other languages recorded behind it. Those smaller counts are minority broadcasting inside a national dial and they are worth the click.

Most listened to in New Zealand

Top 50 of 140
The Rock - NZ's #1 rock radio station130 kbps · AAC
新西兰中文广播电台 FM90.6 Radio Chinese128 kbps · MP3
95bFM - FLACOGG
Channel X129 kbps · AAC
Magic FM130 kbps · AAC
Newstalk ZB64 kbps · AAC+
The Hits64 kbps · AAC+
George FM129 kbps · AAC
Keep Laughing Forever Radio320 kbps · MP3
Coast FM64 kbps · AAC+
JAZZ CAFE128 kbps · MP3
Sleep Radio256 kbps · MP3

More of the New Zealand dial

Ordered by open count, which in this listing barely orders anything: a handful of opens separates one row from the next. Press play on a row and the stream starts in this tab. Bitrate and format come from what each stream's server announces when it is scanned, so "not stated" is a silent server rather than a bad one.

Every station in New Zealand with a page30 more across 1 pages

The table above is the fifty most listened to. Beyond them, 30 more stations from New Zealand have a page of their own here, listed most played first and playable from the list.

Languages on air
  • English92
  • Māori2
  • Fijian2
  • Samoan2
  • Tongan2
  • Hindi2
What they play
  • community12
  • alternative8
  • rock8
  • classic rock8
  • easy listening7
  • culture7
  • community radio6
  • christian6

Stream formats

  • MP359
  • AAC44
  • AAC+31
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Compiled by Fable, Editor, World Radio Player

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