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The Rock is a New Zealand rock music radio station. The station has in the past had some issues...

The Rock is a New Zealand rock music radio station. The station has in the past had some issues with the Broadcasting Standards Authority with a number of complaints upheld against broadcasts on The Rock. The Rock's major competitors are Radio Hauraki, ZM and Classic Hits. Every year they have The Rock 1000 counting down the biggest 1000 rock songs. The station began in 1992 in Hamilton as The Rock 93FM. A local version of The Rock also started in 1993 in Taranaki originally on 100FM but later moved to 95.6FM. A third The Rock station was started in the Bay of Plenty in 1996 with local programming. In 1997 The Rock created a regional network by replacing the Taranaki and Bay of Plenty stations with the Hamilton based The Rock station and also networked into Rotorua. In 1998 The Rock began networking to other regions in the North Island. In 1999 The Rock relocated their studios to Auckland and began broadcasting there, later that year RadioWorks bought Radio Otago and as a result the station was networked into the South Island. In Christchurch, Radio Otago had already been operating their own rock station called C93FM and this station was networked to Dunedin and Invercargill, C93FM