How we checked Ski FM
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. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
SKI FM is a New Zealand commercial station serving the central North Island, and in its own words "the only mainstream media network to provide coverage to the entire Central North Island, That being the Ruapehu region, Taupo & Turangi, Whanganui, and environs". Despite "network" in its domain it runs as one station: a single programme service carried on a set of FM transmitters, with one crew, one studio line and one text number. Alongside music it publishes road conditions, weather reports, local news under the heading The Local Rag, events and giveaways.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Artists
none established. The site carries no now-playing panel and no recently played list; its Listen Live button hands off to an external player.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Contact route
Several routes, all on its own pages. A general enquiries telephone number, a freephone studio line presented as a word mnemonic, a studio text shortcode, an email address on the skifmnetwork.com domain, and a post office box at Ohakune. The station links its own Facebook and Instagram accounts, and has separate Advertise and Employment Opportunities pages.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://skifmnetwork.co.nz/contact-us/
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Era
Not published.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Music
A local commercial music and information service. The site never states a music format in words; what it does publish is the speech side, namely local news, road and weather information for the region, events and competitions.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Language
English.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Kind
Live local presentation on weekdays for the two named shows, with the Managing Director covering on air when needed. The stream itself is delivered through a third party player rather than from the station's own domain.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
The operator publishes its own population figure to advertisers, "a population footprint of 94,927", and describes selling "at provincial rates" into audiences swollen by "supersized winter and summer population spikes" of visitors from Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington, which is the ski season shaping the business.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Where
Central North Island, New Zealand, with a postal address at Ohakune. The operator publishes its transmitters in a banner on every page: Whanganui 93.6, South Ruapehu & Ohakune 91.8, Taupo & Turangi 87.8, National Park 105.4, North Ruapehu & Taumarunui 91.1, Taihape 90.0 and 87.8, and Waiouru 91.8.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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On air
Ben presents Ski Brekky's with Ben and the site says he was born and raised in Whanganui. Nath presents Arvo's with Nath and is described as originally from the South Island. Danni J is named as Managing Director and as the frequent fill in announcer when Ben or Nath are away. A fourth person, referred to only as "Stables", is named in passing in Nath's biography as the one he hides his dog from. No surnames are given for Ben or Nath.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
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Programmes
Ski Brekky's with Ben, from 6am weekdays. Arvo's with Nath, from 3pm. No other named show and no full grid is published; the Our Crew page is where both airtimes appear.
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SKI FM, site titled Ski FM Network | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
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 |
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| A second station or channel called "GOSSIP FM" | The words GOSSIP and FM appear in the header of every page on the site and look at first like a sister brand. They are not. They sit inside the theme's logo-text markup as a title and tagline pair, which is the tagDiv Newspaper theme's placeholder logo text that the operator never replaced, and the link on it simply returns to the Ski FM homepage. There is no Gossip FM.
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| A single general enquiries telephone number | Two pages of the site print numbers differing in the final digit, the Advertise page against the Contact Us page and the sitewide footer. I did not publish a number in any case, but the disagreement is worth recording.
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| Presenter surnames, and any fourth crew member built out of the "Stables" mention | The site gives neither, so I left both as the site has them.
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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.
This entry began as: Ski FM — listed via Radio Browser · https://skifmnetwork.co.nz/