An Oamaru radio station is now back with its creator after more than a decade.
Charlie Fraser started Whitestone City Music in 2012 for 45 South TV because it needed a sound channel to complete its licence requirements.
After giving up control a decade ago, Mr Fraser and his wife, Eunice, are back running the station.
"It was either us take over or it would just be shut down and put on the shelf."
His passion for radio came from his career as an electrical engineer at the Waitaki Electrical Power Board, the predecessor to Network Waitaki before 1993.
"Electricity and electricals and radio and things have always been my hobby."
While he and his wife no longer live in Oamaru, they still run the Oamaru Heritage Radio station.
The couple now reside in Kapuka, about 20km west of Invercargill.
When their daughter, Maree, and her husband bought the Lignite Pit Cafe and Secret Garden in 2014, the Frasers handed the reins to Whitestone City Music and shifted with them.
They kept going with heritage radio and even picked up another station, Lignite FM.
Both of them broadcast from their cottage, with Mrs Fraser on air five days a week.
All three stations are not for profit and are solely funded by donations.
The couple work with other stations around the South Island, including Palmerston station Happy Days Radio, to keep their 24-hour broadcast going.
Listeners can expect music from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s on the station.
Mr Fraser is off-air while he sets up the station but he hopes to be back "just after Easter".
