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The Sound
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- classic rock
130 kbps · AAC · Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
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What the directory records
Record last changed 4 Oct 2026
- Country
- New Zealand
- Language
- English
- Format
- AAC
- Stream
- HLS playlist
- Last catalogue check
- Stream answered
- Broadcaster
- thesound.co.nz
The Sound sits at 19 of 67 in New Zealand's listing, in the body of the list rather than at either end. This is where most of a national dial actually lives, and it is the part a country hub's first fifty rows never reach.
With four recorded opens, The Sound sits in the part of the directory where the numbers stop discriminating. The station's position in New Zealand's list should be read as approximate for exactly that reason.
A classic rock station on a dial where classic rock is one of the commonest tags: 5 entries in New Zealand lead with it. The tags are broadcaster-supplied throughout, so read the count as how New Zealand's broadcasters describe themselves.
The Sound publishes an HLS stream. That is a modern and perfectly good way to broadcast, and it is also why the button on this page may not start it: HLS needs a player that can read a playlist and fetch segments, which a browser audio tag does not do on its own.
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.
- Country
- New Zealand
- Coordinates
- 36.876S, 174.817E
These are counts of what people did inside the public radio-browser catalogue and the apps that read it, over the whole life of the entry. They are not our own figures and they are not an audience measurement: most entries in this catalogue sit under five all-time plays, so a small number here means the catalogue has little to say about this station rather than that nobody listens to it.
Broadcast by The Sound. Stream served directly by the broadcaster. Their own site is at www.thesound.co.nz.
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