We are a live and local station; featuring Local & National News, Talkback and hits of the last 50 years.  We mainly play music from the 50's, 60's & 70's with a bit of 80's, 90's & Today!  From Elvis to Neil Diamond, from Fats Domino to Cliff Richard, from Pat Boone to Lionel Richie!

Radio Dunedin was set up as a commercial radio station in 1990.

Before this period the station had a number of call signs since it first went to air in 1922.  Over this period it was known as DN, 4AB, 4ZB and finally in 1948 4XD.

From 1922 until 1990 4XD was operated by the Otago Radio Association as a non-commercial and voluntary run radio station. 

We are the oldest radio station outside North America and Canada; being the fifth oldest station in the world and we are five weeks older than the BBC.

Lyndsay Rackley was the first paid employee and in October 1990 Neil Collins came aboard leasing the breakfast air time slot and setting up the commercial section of the station.  Otago Radio Association volunteers still ran the evening and weekend shifts.

Racing broadcasts from April 1990 until April 1992 helped keep the station afloat.  Capital from these broadcasts allowed us to set up the station commercially purchasing equipment to allow the station to broadcast commercials.  After losing the racing broadcasts to Radio Pacific in 1992 the station found it difficult to continue viably.  In November 1993 Radio Otago purchased the station from the Otago Radio Association, with a lease drawn up for the Otago Radio Association to man the station with volunteer announcers from 6pm weeknights, the weekends and public holidays.

Over the past 9 years the stations listening audience has grown steadily to become the current number one station in the Dunedin market.  Radioworks took over Radio Otago in 1999.

Today volunteers from the Otago Radio Association run the station from 6pm weeknights, the weekends and public holidays.