95bFM is relocating to Karangahape Road, one of Auckland‘s most important cultural streets. with the move to be completed by Friday July 31st 2026 and marking a new chapter in the station’s nearly six-decade history.
95bFM General Manager Tom Tremewan said:
“95bFM has been part of Auckland’s creative culture for 60 years. This is a big moment for the station and for everyone who has contributed to its history.
“95bFM has always been more than bricks and mortar. The station will continue to be the training ground for the next generation of broadcasters and rangatahi who want to learn about broadcasting, media, music, or journalism. It’s also one of the remaining refuges for those who simply want to find kinship in a creative community. Our purpose does not change because we are moving a ten-minute walk up the road.”
95bFM has long been a first point of airplay and support for local artists like Bic Runga, Shihad, Marlon Williams, Aldous Harding and many, many more. Che Fu’s APRA Silver Scroll-winning Misty Frequencies even came about as a homage to tuning in to Murray Cammick’s Land of the Good Groove radio show on 95bFM.
The station was an early pioneer of online radio streaming in the country and the wider Student Radio Network introduced generations of local broadcasters, journalists, writers, comedians, and public figures including Charlotte Ryan, Aroha Harawira, Noelle McCarthy, Harriet Crampton, Chlöe Swarbrick, Graeme Hill, Jeremy Wells, David Farrier, Matt Heath, Mikey Havoc, Marcus Lush, Wallace Chapman, Russell Brown, Rhys Darby, Jaquie Brown, Jude Anaru, Debbi Gibbs, Gemma Gracewood, Paul Casserly, Murray Cammick ONZM, Simon Grigg, Nick Dwyer, Rebecca Wright, Tony Stamp, Jess Fu, Anna Bracewell-Worrall, Lillian Hanly, Jamiema Huston, and Sarah Thomson.
The relocation will be managed through a staged technical transition led by Rick Huntington, better known to generations of 95bFM listeners as Rick Breeze, and designed to protect broadcast continuity and minimise disruption. Rick began working with 95bFM 42 years ago.
Tom Tremewan added:
“Our future is not digital instead of radio. It is digital as well as radio. We’re committed to staying on-air, but we’re also building the digital infrastructure we need to reach new audiences, support local music, strengthen student radio’s public-interest role, and continue evolving as a modern independent media organisation.
Other student radio stations, including RDU and Radio Active, have already been through major station moves and have come out the other end bigger, better, stronger, and more resilient. It can be done, and it will be done. 95bFM has moved through every possible version of media chaos over the last 60 years. This is another big one, but it is not bigger than us.”