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Well - we now know we have listeners from far away. Presenter Mosa Bekheet has emailed to say his relative, Nadia Nannosh from Cairo now requests songs on The Arabic Show Sundays at 7pm. Kia Ora to you Nadia from Downunder!!

Chef Tutor Dave Tame from the CPIT School of Food and Hospitality offers mouth-watering easy recipe ideas, made from seasonal ingredients.

Tune in each Tuesday about 9:30am to be inspired in the kitchen, then download the week's recipe (attached to the Sounds Delicious podcasts) from our website and get cooking!

Sounds Delicious with Dave Tame. 9:30am Tuesday's on Plains FM Mornings!

Plains FM is sad to have said goodbye to Training and Operations Manager Caroline Birnie, who recently returned home to England to continue her career in radio.

Caroline will be sorely missed by the staff and programme makers who were inspired by her infectious passion for radio and cheery outlook.

We wish her all the best for the future, and look forward to the next time she breezes through our doors!

Plains FM is now streaming live.

This means that anyone in the world who has a computer with a broadband connection will be able to go to our website and listen to our station as it broadcasts LIVE.

Tell family, friends, listeners to tune in online by visiting www.plainsfm.org.nz and clicking on the red LISTEN button in the top right hand corner of the page.

Our website address is now just as important as our frequency 96.9FM.

Get to know it!!!!

'Mornings' presenter Nic Pegg (seen here with Producer Hamish Doake on left) celebrates one year on air.

Tune in from 8am each weekday morning for interviews and performances with a myriad of people, 

most local, some just passing through; giveaways and BBC World Service News. Regular features include A View from the Top, Business on Mornings, Nick’s Flicks, Walktologist Graeme Stanley, What Wine?, ArtSpace, Money Matters and Light Living.

 Thanks to our precious sponsors: The Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, Radar Records, Chris O'Dell The Mortgage King

Plains FM is thrilled that Joanna Cobley’s  The Museum Detective has taken the top award in the Best Ethnic and Access - Spoken category at the 2008 NZ Radio Awards.  Another Plains FM programme Out of the Glow produced by Paul Featherstone was also a finalist, along with students from Greenmeadows School (Radio Kidnappers). The judging panel said of Joanna’s winning entry: “…an innovative and entertaining concept, compulsive listening, well planned, expert talent provided good story telling with gentle probing from the host with a witty presentation style.”

Ever wanted to know more about those on the Canterbury Top 50 power list?

Plains FM will be broadcasting five minute profiles of 18 distinguished Cantabrians in the Plains FM Mornings programme, one profile each weekday from Monday 5th May, at 8.30 am.

The profiles have been made by journalism students at the New Zealand Broadcasting School at CPIT. Each student was given a name to research from printed sources before interviewing their subject for the profile, an exercise designed to test their research, interview and production skills.

“This is the second year we have asked our students to do this exercise. Again it has been very rewarding,” says the head of the Broadcasting School, Paul Norris. “Our students have produced some interesting and revealing profiles, which are likely to interest many listeners.”

ACAB is the Association of Community Access Broadcasters, and every year the association gets together to network and attend seminars and workshops relevant to the medium of Access Radio.

This year the conference is being held in Palmerston North, the home of Manawatu's Access Radio provider - Access Manawatu, in the comfortable surroundings of Hotel Coachman!

The conference is geared around the theme "Back to Basics" and for a sneak peek at what's in store at the conference check out the Access Manawatu website here.

If you're interested in attending this year's ACAB Conference, please contact Nicki at Plains FM.

Station Celebration!

Plains FM recently featured on CTV's Today In Canterbury news programme, in acknowledgment of our 20th Anniversary.

Check out the story on YouTube, by clicking the link below.

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