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Max Christoffersen with Contact's new FM aerial on the top of the university library (Photo Waikato Times, reprinted in Nexus 15/9/1986)

Max Christoffersen was the manager of Hamilton's student radio station in 1986 when it switched from Radio Contact on 1440 IXC to Contact 89FM. Under his reign information services were added to the broadcasts such as Job Search, and the Accommodation and Movie guides, features that remained a staple until the closedown of the station. He was also the first manager to write weekly articles in Nexus about the station. Christoffersen acted as a director of Contact 89FM Ltd. in the late 1990s, and made an unsuccessful bid to buy the station prior to its sale and closure.

Christoffersen later went on to establish Max FM, Hamilton's first NZQA recognised radio school at The Waikato Institute of Technology (Wintec). Max FM carried on where Contact FM left off focusing on student centered services and a music playlist that featured a 'new school - old school' rock format and a range of specialist music programmes.

In January 2009 Christoffersen launched Kiss-FM at Mt Maunganui. The station provides entry-level radio study courses and volunteer on-air and station management work opportunities for recent radio graduates. Kiss-FM 88.1 features a hard rock format with 'The Late Shift' providing Mount Maunganui with the 'hardest nightly rock radio show in New Zealand.'

Kiss-FM stopped broadcasting on October 25 2011. The station was taken off-air following an unsuccessful bid for the Bay of Plenty's non-commercial FM licence on 106.2FM.

The 106.2 frequency still remains unallocated, unused and silent today.