RNZ Pacific

RNZ Pacific
Ko Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa, Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

Broadcast area	International (from New Zealand)
Programming
Language(s)	English Tongan Samoan Niuean Cook Islands Māori[1]
Format	News/Talk/Music
Ownership
Owner	Radio New Zealand
Sister stations	RNZ National RNZ Concert
History
First air date	1948 (as Radio New Zealand)
Links
Webcast	RNZ Pacific
Website	RNZ Pacific

RNZ Pacific or Radio New Zealand Pacific, sometimes abbreviated to RNZP, is a division of Radio New Zealand and the official international broadcasting station of New Zealand. It broadcasts a variety of news, current affairs and sports programmes in English, and news in seven Pacific languages. The station's mission statement requires it to promote and reflect New Zealand in the Pacific, and better relations between New Zealand and Pacific countries. It was called Radio New Zealand International or RNZ International (RNZI) until May 2017.

As the only shortwave radio station in New Zealand, RNZ Pacific broadcasts to several island nations. It has studios in Radio New Zealand House, Wellington and a transmitter at Rangitaiki in the middle of the North Island.^[2] Its broadcasts cover from East Timor in the west across to French Polynesia in the east, covering all South Pacific countries in between. The station targets Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Tonga during a 24-hour rotation. The signal can also be heard in East and Southeast Asia, Europe and North America.^[3]