Choice FM is a small local station based on East Road in Otematata, the hydro town in the Waitaki Valley of North Otago. Serving a tiny, spread-out rural community — farmers, holiday-home owners and travellers passing the Waitaki lakes — it provides a local voice in a part of New Zealand where the nearest city stations arrive faintly, if at all. Programming is community-minded and music-based, the kind of modest local broadcasting that keeps small towns connected.
