Auckland radio stations are awesome

They really are. I'd heard that Auckland has one of the most saturated radio markets in the world and there is certainly a heap of stations. Because of this there is far greater choice. If you want Hip Hop there's a station for that. If you want electronic beats/ dance music there's a station for that. BFM started out as a Uni radio station way back when, and it has a great mix of intellectual conversation, new indie music and classic old indie music.

The radio jocks over here piss on the Sydney jocks. They are really smart, witty, interesting people and the ones I listen to know their music inside and out. I certainly don't miss Sydney's stale homogenized radio stations. Triple J was OK but you could almost guarantee that if you turned it on you'd get some guitar rock. FBI was also good but they were sooo indie that they appeared to have a problem playing anything that had made it commercially. They also had very little electronica, compared to everything else. Mind you I think that truly is a reflection of Australia. It's a garage rock nation and electronic music doesn't get much of a look in.

George FM, which is the dance music station, is just fantastic. But they don't just thrash your head with repetitive electronic beats all day. There's jazz, funk and heaps of other bass driven music, not to mention intelligent conversation, news and current affairs.

I believe there is a station that plays more Kiwi indie music although I've yet to tune into it. And of course you can get all your classic FMs, classic rock and pop stations as well.

I'm torn now between which stations to have on and whether to play my own music in the car.