The Wireless

A history of student radio: Episode four

11:51 am on 19 January 2015

Radio New Zealand's Music 101 presents a four-part journey through 45 years of student radio in New Zealand - the stars and bands who got their breaks, the politics, the music, the piracy and the No. 8 wire mentality.

Radio Active's One Love Waitangi Day celebrations / Photo courtesy of Radio Active. Photo: Radio Active's One Love Waitangi Day celebrations / Photo courtesy of Radio Active.

For the fourth and final episode of Music 101's history of student radio, they pull focus to the years following 2000 and zoom in on those to come, considering the place of alternative independent radio in the ever-changing modern media landscape.

Previously: episode one / episode two / episode three