New Zealand
- 1966: Radio Hauraki broadcast from the MV Tiri that was moored in international waters near Auckland, and in 1968 from the MV Tiri II. This was the only ship-based pirate station to ever broadcast in the Southern Hemisphere which it did for 1,111 days, although it was subsequently discovered that the ship had in fact always been moored in NZ territorial waters (Hauraki Gulf). In 1970 it was granted a license to broadcast from land and a successor company still broadcasts to the Auckland market under the Radio Hauraki brand and is networked nationwide.
- 1972 Radio Bosom broadcast briefly until Post Office inspectors found and seized the transmitter which was concealed in a maintenance tunnel under a University of Auckland building. Now known as bFM, the station broadcasts legally from the University of Auckland student union building.
- 1980: Kiwi Radio began broadcasting as Radio Freedom on both shortwave and FM, changing the name to Kiwi Radio in 1983. Kiwi Radio ceased in 1997.
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