Plains FM96.9 Te Reo Irirangi O Te Maania

Plains FM96.9 Te Reo Irirangi O Te Maania is operated by the Canterbury Communications Trust as a community radio station providing facilities for community access broadcasting, and is supported with funding from NZ on Air.

As well as a range of excellent local information programming and superb music, Plains FM96.9 caters for groups under-represented in mainstream media. These groups include women, children and youth, people with disabilities, minority groups, including ethnic minorities, and faith communities.

Plains FM96.9 provides the technical facilities and professional training to enable these groups to broadcast their own programmes. The station then hands editorial control to the broadcaster with the aim of empowering and strengthening the links within and between communities to foster and develop the culture of New Zealand/Aotearoa.

The station also provides listeners with alternative community programming in the form of feature interviews in a daily morning programme, about local issues and events, BBC World Service news, documentary programmes and music from around the world. We specialise in new release music across a number of genres including acoustic roots, world, alternative country, folk, blues and jazz.

Visit the website of Plains FM96.9

Projects 2011
World Zone

Plains FM96.9 currently has 9 programmes in different languages regularly on air representing a range of communities, including in Arabic, Italian, Dutch, French, Japanese, Nepalese and Mandarin. For more information visit the Plains FM96.9 website.

Faith Zone

Plains FM96.9 currently has 9 programmes broadcasting representing diverse religious communities, in Samoan as well as English.

Support for Community Events

Plains FM96.9 supports many community events through its community information service, and is a sponsor of the annual Christchurch Ethnic Soccer Tournament, Culture Galore Festival and KidsFest.

Staff regularly attends the Refugee and Migrant Forum and are actively encouraging member organisations to create their own independent radio programme in a collaborative partnership.

Community Languages and Information Network (CLING)

Plains FM96.9 is part of the Community Languages and Information Network (CLING), a network of agencies and organisations advocating for accessible information for the refugee and migrant communities of Christchurch with regards to Earthquake response and recovery.

Contact Nicki Reece, nicki@plainsfm.org.nz

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