GoldRush1440 - Format
Adult contemporary, Timeless Hits and current melodic music, with specialist programmes including children’s programmes: A "Full service" local radio station serving a full demographic in the GoldRush1440 TSA.
GoldRush1440 broadcasts from the 1000-watt AM transmitter at Evan’s Flat near Lawrence in Otago transmitting on 1440 AM to cover a large part of Otago and Southland during daytime and the majority of the South Island in the hours of dusk & darkness with a format of music programming that is a spread of hits from the sixties/seventies through to the present day. Specialist music programmes for the target audience, which complement the main music mix, are broadcast, mostly in non-daytime. The station is music-led, with information and features of particular relevance to the target audience an important ingredient.
Information Features
Weather updates throughout the day broadcast half hourly at breakfast and hourly until 7pm.
Local News for the South hourly from 6.04am to 9.04am
Detailed Weather Forecast at 5.45am, 6.45am, 7.45am, and 8.45am Monday to Friday, 6.45am, 7.45am, and 8.45 Saturdayam, and 7.45am Sunday.
12 Day Regional Weather Forecast for Otago after the News at 1pm
Rural News Daily at 1.04pm
News hourly throughout the day from 6am until 7pm
Headlines at 5.30am, 6.30am, 7.30am and 8.30am Monday to Friday.
Road conditions, school closures and cancellations broadcast following weather forecasts as required when notified.
More often when conditions are severe.
Community Notices broadcast at 7.40am and 1.10pm