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New Access Radio Station
Access Radio Taranaki, based in New Plymouth, is the first new access station in over a decade and enjoys extraordinary community support, with over seventy community organisations expressing an interest in making radio programmes.
Community access radio is also funded in eleven other locations around New Zealand. It exists primarily to provide access to the airwaves for special interest groups not strongly represented in mainstream media.
Programmes are made by minority language, ethnic, disability and religious groups, among others.
A guiding principle of all access radio operators is "by, for, and about". This means that, as far as possible, stations operate as a platform and a support crew, allowing programme makers to broadcast shows that are "by, for, and about" their own communities.
