How did Galaxy 107fm come to be?
That’s a great question. Five years ago there used to be another radio station here in Kawerau, New Zealand located in the North Island. Called Radio Kawerau
Radio Kawerau unfortunately was a community based radio station. The community ran it and basically it was a recipe for disaster. With my experience coming from radio I came to this town and Joined that community radio station. They came to me and said” Grant “ we want to get out of the game. So they gave me the equipment the only problem with that was the equipment that they were using was at least 15 years old. I had to replace everything, and myself and my team made the radio station itself bigger and better.
I moved into this place where we are located and opened Galaxy107fm in June 2014, and have been going hard out ever since.
Who‘s the one person that inspires you the most to do what you do?
Really there isn’t one particular person” I’d have to say my team here at Galaxy 107fm gives me the inspiration that I need, but I’ve also got to give a big shout out to my wife Teri, she has been one of the biggest supporters of Galaxy and to Barbara as well, Barbara keeps me very busy, also cracks the whip on me and keeps me very busy indeed.
What does 2017 have in store at Galaxy 107 fm?
Well 2017 for us here at Galaxy107fm has us excited we recently merged with Crank-it up and the Reigns.
Everything that the Reigns are doing over in the USA and now combine that with everything we are doing here is beyond exciting. This is now World domination and we are going to take this World by a storm, literally, when we combined with Crankit-up Magazine, we knew the possibilities are simply endless
How did you find Crankit-up?
I didn’t actually find out about Crankitup magazine until about 6 months ago, when Barbara came to me with a advert she had seen on facebook, a crankit-up magazine add she said to me listen to me Grant I want an ad like that for us and frankly I agreed. Barbara was really the catalyst for it all.
I think Barbara has been good friends with a Mr John Reign for almost a year. So again, like I said everything transpired from Barbara.