The Rock - NZ's #1 rock radio station

The Rock - NZ's #1 rock radio station heads New Zealand's listing here, ahead of 66 other stations from the country. The ordering is the directory's own record of how often each stream is opened, so this is a popularity signal rather than an editorial one, and it is the signal the country hub is built on.

The directory counts 29 opens against this stream. That is well above New Zealand's median and it is the reason the station sits where it does on the country list, since the ordering is the count and nothing else.

No language is recorded against this station. The field is optional in the public directory and a great many entries skip it, so an empty language says nothing about what you will hear when you press play. It does keep the station off the language shelves, since a shelf built on guesses would be worse than a shelf with holes.

Among 67 stations in New Zealand here, this is the only one that puts alternative rock first. The alternative rock rail below therefore leaves the country entirely, which is the more interesting direction to travel from a page like this.

Worldwide it ranks 4 among 61 alternative rock entries, which is worth roughly as much as the count behind it and no more.

Its audio comes from digitalstreams.mediaworks.nz. Five other stations in New Zealand stream from the same host, which is a smaller sharing than the big platforms and often means the same people run them all.