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Over two thousand Cantabrians took the time to voice their concern recently at the No Pay Rise for Tony Marryatt protest in an empty lot next door to the Christchurch City Council building in central Christchurch.

See stuff.co.nz here .

 What do you think about the performance of our local council over the last 3 months? We intend to let you have your say as we continue to explore the issues through our many community shows and during Mornings (weekdays from 7:30am-9:30am) on Plains FM.  

It all fires off this Monday January 30th. Tune in for local interviews and information with Gary McIlroy as well as your chance to win a $200 petrol voucher from Caltex Redwood!!!

It's our way of helping you to keep connected in to the issues affecting our region, the success of our local people, and the events big and small that are happening every day.

We’re delighted to welcome a new staff member to our team. Gary McIlroy has taken up residence and is in the process of absorbing lots of information about systems and software and all our different broadcasters and programmes.

From a very early age, Gary always had a fascination about radio and how voices and music could be sent across the airwaves.

Although this interest was of a technical nature, his real passion was for actual show presentation.

As a result, he started on Radio St. Helier in 1985, at the age of 18. This was a hospital radio station, serving three hospitals.

From there he moved to Community Development Radio, based in Shepherds Bush, London. This was a radio project focused on bonding different ethnic communities throughout the Greater London region.

Gary also presented on a number of other alternative stations, some of which had a significant influence on the direction of ‘FM’ radio in the late 80’s.

By the 90’s, he had taken up a regular slot on WNK 103.3FM, London’s first fully legal black music orientated station. Sadly WNK’s life was short-lived and Gary’s next move was to another new London station, Choice FM.

For the next few years Gary focused on his own business, only occasionally presenting radio shows and it wasn’t until coming to NZ that he felt the need to get back behind the microphone.

Like before, he was keen on radio that made some contribution to community issues and found like- minded people at the 14 year old LPFM station Radio Redwood. A new studio was built, in conjunction with Redwood at Wigram Manor, Christchurch and from there Gary presented a morning show focused on the Christchurch earthquake recovery.

Gary is now delighted to part of the Plains FM team and embraces the challenge of producing and presenting a new morning show for Canterbury set to launch in early 2012, contributing to our social media and driving special projects utilising The POD. If you see a flash of sneakers whizz past it may well be our Gary as he’s also the President of the Port Hills Athletics Club and very fit! If you haven’t met him yet make sure to pop in and say “hi”.

Contact email is: gary@plainsfm.org.nz

We now have a new entrance so when you next come to visit us, we hope this map will make it easier. Just come through our double doors at the North end of the brown building.

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