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4 December
1966 Radio Hauraki rules the waves
The state's monopoly of commercial radio broadcasting was challenged by the pirate station Radio Hauraki's first scheduled transmission from the vessel Tiri in the Colville Channel. more...
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- Pirate broadcaster (Te Ara)
- NZ Broadcasting Service (1966 encyclopaedia)
- When radio waived the rules (NZ Herald)
- NZ Radio history (Oldradio)
- Pirate Radio Hauraki 40 years on (Radio Heritage Foundation)
- Radio Hauraki: sounds of the sea (Mess and Noise)
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