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| Industry | Broadcasting |
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| Predecessor | Banbury Recordings International, Rhema Broadcasting Group |
| Founded | Christchurch, New Zealand (1976) |
| Headquarters | , New Zealand |
Area served | New Zealand |
Key people | Andrew Fraser, CEO |
| Services | 1978 |
| Website | rhemamedia.co.nz |
Rhema Media (previously known as Rhema Broadcasting Group or RBG) is a Christian media organisation in New Zealand. It owns radio networks Rhema, Life FM and Star, and television station Shine TV. It also publishes Bob Gass's quarterly devotional publication The Word For Today, and a youth version called The Word For You Today. Rhema Media is based in Newton, Auckland and is the founding organisation of United Christian Broadcasters (UCB).[1]
Rhema Media was set up in the 1960s by Christchurch evangelical Richard Berry, following the success of Ecuadorian Christian short-wave radio station HCJB. The company's flagship network Rhema (then New Zealand's Rhema) began full-time broadcasting on 11 November 1978.[2] In 1997 the company launched the additional radio brands of Life FM and Star (then Southern Star). Shine TV was launched in 2002, and The Word radio network operated between 2007 and 2015.[3]
- ^ "Rhema History". rhemamedia.co.nz. Rhema Media. Archived from the original on 6 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
- ^ Little, Paul (January 2019). "The miraculous longevity of Radio Rhema". Noted. North & South. p. 122. Archived from the original on 9 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
- ^ Bennik, Nicole (24 September 2010). "Christian radio praying for a money miracle". Whitireia New Zealand. Newswire. Archived from the original on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 17 July 2015.