The station was first started in 1971[1] as New Zealand's third privately owned station, the station originally broadcast on 930AM but moved to 954AM in 1978 after New Zealand's AM band frequency spacing was adjusted from 10 kHz to 9 kHz.
In 1986 Radio Waikato changed to a country music format and was renamed Country Gold - Waikato 954.
In 1988 the station's frequency was sold to Radio Pacific and was then used to broadcast Radio Pacific into the Waikato region with originally local programming but later networked programming from Radio Pacific in Auckland.
This station had no connection to the original Radio Waikato and was broadcast on 576AM and 100.0FM.
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