local Rotorua station Triple X 99FM. The station featured a local breakfast show and networked programmes from Auckland at other times of the day, but closed in 1998. It resumed broadcasting in 2004 as Easy Listening i95.1FM with all programming networked from Auckland, but the frequency was sold on 31 March 2010 and Easy Mix was taken off the air again. The 95.1 FM frequency was sold to MediaWorks and was used to simulcast its talkback radio station, Radio Live. In 2018 the station returned to Rotorua once again on 94.3FM, shifting Radio Hauraki to 87.6FM. In January 2020 this switch was reversed with Radio Hauraki reverting to 94.3FM. Greymouth In 2018 the station was launched in Greymouth on 91.5FM & 97.1FM. Gisborne In 2018 the station was launched in Gisborne on 106.1FM. Former stations Auckland Mix 98.2 and its previous formats have broadcast in Auckland on 98.2 FM since 1990. The station was broadcast from a transmitter on the Sky Tower (Auckland) since 1997 and the frequency was briefly used by Radio Sport between 2012 and 2014. On 1 June 2020, Mix 98.2 was replaced by Coast. Hawke's Bay The Easy Listening i station in Hawke's Bay started as The Alligator 90FM in 1994. It broadcast on 90.3 FM from central Napier, with an adult contemporary format that had been missing from the market at the time. It used positioning statements like "Better Music Variety and Less Talking", and "The Original FM Music Station for Adults". Its staff and announcers included Graeme Parsonage, Andrew Jefferies, James Milner, Virgil Troy and Julie-Ann Barnes. Mark Bramley joined the station, and later went to host Easy Mix's night show in 2010. Within months of the station's launch, a second transmitter was installed on Bluff Hill and relayed the programmes to Napier Hill and Port residents on 99.9 FM. The station was renamed The Alligator 90-100FM, and then Easy Listening i90. In mid-1996 the station was sold to Hawke's Bay Media Group, keeping a local breakfast programme but phasing out local programmes at other times of the day. The 99.9 frequency was used to set up a new youth station called Xtreme 100 fronted by Mark McCarron and Rick Toner (Breakfast), with Jason Reeves (Xtreme nights). At the end of 1997 the station reverted to local programmes and changed its name to Easy Listening 90FM. Hawke's Bay Media Group changed its name to