Radio Hauraki

Radio Hauraki is a New Zealand Mainstream rock radio network, specialising in rock from the 70s to today. It was the first private commercial radio station of the modern broadcasting era in New Zealand and operated illegally from 1966-1970 to break the monopoly held by the government. Private commercial radio stations had operated from the earliest days of broadcasting, but the government began to close them down, the process accelerating after World War II. To break the state monopoly, Radio Hauraki was originally formed as a pirate station in the Hauraki Gulf, the only offshore radio station ever to broadcast in the southern hemisphere, in a famous and historic story that saw the loss of one life.

Radio Hauraki's head office and main studios are now located on the corner of Cook and Nelson Streets in Auckland City, along with the other seven stations of The Radio Network,