How we checked 新西兰中文广播电台 FM90.6 Radio Chinese

Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 2 things about this entry. We also found 5 things we could have published and decided not to.

What we publish, and where each part came from

What we say	Read from	When
Description Its own About page states "FM90.6 Chinese Radio New Zealand is Auckland's first 24-hour Mandarin stereo radio station, serving a Chinese-speaking audience of over 210,000 listeners across the Auckland region. As a fully licensed broadcaster, FM90.6 has long been rooted in the local community, providing reliable and professional radio services to Chinese audiences in New Zealand." It describes itself as more than a broadcaster, as a content brand, and says it has recently launched Chaos, a youth-oriented cultural content brand covering arts and urban lifestyle.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Artists Its own stream metadata carried "Starling8/MoreLearn 27/FIVESTAR - 苦茶子", a Mandarin pop title with the playout system's folder path in front of it; the station publishes no song history page.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Contact route Yes; a mobile number and an email address are printed in the footer of every page, and the email is a live mailto link. Values not reproduced here.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Era Contemporary; not the point for this station.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Music Chinese-language music and speech for a local community audience.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Language Mandarin Chinese. Checked rather than assumed: the station's own About page calls it a Mandarin station in those words, its Chinese-language pages are in standard Chinese, and there is nothing anywhere on its own site, in its own stream identification, or in its own metadata that mentions Hakka or Cantonese.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Kind A licensed FM broadcaster in its own words, running a continuous stream whose station identification reads "FM90.6 New Zealand Chinese Radio". No live-show indicator and no schedule are published, and the stream metadata shows automation folder paths, so what is published points to automated playout around whatever live output exists.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Worth knowing Its own About page puts its audience at over 210,000 Chinese-speaking listeners across the Auckland region, and it has extended itself into a separate youth content brand called Chaos.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Where Auckland, New Zealand; FM 90.6.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
On air none. Nobody is named on the home page, the About page, the Programs page, the Partners page, the Chaos page or the Chinese-language pages.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026
Programmes Its own Programs page carries a single on-demand item, "Conservation Week Special", described as an interview with EPA, under the headings "Discover More" and "Past Episode". No schedule of any kind is published.	New Zealand Chinese Radio - FM906, the station's own site	2026

What we corrected

Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.

Field	Change	Why
language code refused	cmn what it said before was not recorded; the reasoning usually states it	I checked the stored hak rather than assuming it wrong, and it is wrong. The station's own about page at https://fm906.co.nz/about-en.html says in its own words that it is 'Auckland's first 24-hour Mandarin stereo radio station, serving a Chinese-speaking audience of over 210,000 listeners across the Auckland region'. Nothing on its home, about, programs, partners, Chaos or Chinese-language pages mentions Hakka or Cantonese, its Chinese pages are in standard Chinese, and its own stream identifies as 'FM90.6 New Zealand Chinese Radio' with a Mandarin pop title in its now-playing metadata. cmn is the precise code for Mandarin; zh is the acceptable fallback if the table does not hold cmn. \|\| refused: 'cmn' is not a language we can render a name for
language code	hak → cmn	I checked the stored hak rather than assuming it wrong, and it is wrong. The station's own about page at https://fm906.co.nz/about-en.html says in its own words that it is 'Auckland's first 24-hour Mandarin stereo radio station, serving a Chinese-speaking audience of over 210,000 listeners across the Auckland region'. Nothing on its home, about, programs, partners, Chaos or Chinese-language pages mentions Hakka or Cantonese, its Chinese pages are in standard Chinese, and its own stream identifies as 'FM90.6 New Zealand Chinese Radio' with a Mandarin pop title in its now-playing metadata. cmn is the precise code for Mandarin; zh is the acceptable fallback if the table does not hold cmn.

What we found and did not publish

Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.

What we could have said	Why we did not
The playout folder path "Starling8/MoreLearn 27/FIVESTAR" in the stream title	it is automation path data, not artist information. source
A postal address in the page footer reading "Prefect Labs" with a Detroit, Michigan street address	it sits inside an HTML comment on every page of the site, left over from the demo content of the site theme, and it is not this station's address. source
The stream's icy-url of http://www.example.com and its icy-genre of "Other"	both are hosting defaults rather than values the station set. source
The 210,000 listener figure as a current measured audience	the page carrying it is undated, so I have recorded it as the station's own claim rather than as a measurement. source
A separate contact page URL	the site has no contact page; the navigation "Contact" item is an in-page anchor, and the details live in the footer, so I have left CONTACT_URL out rather than pointing at a page that is not a contact page. source

If you think something here is wrong

Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.

Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research current as at 2026.
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