 At this point a decision was made to network Auckland's Newstalk 1ZB station across the country utilizing the AM frequencies once used by the local station.In 1993 the 2ZB 1035AM frequency became Newstalk ZB, the Wellington station continued to run local programming throughout the day and some of the 2ZB announcers remained with Newstalk ZB Wellington into the late 2000s.At the same time 2ZB on 89.8FM was relaunched as "Goodtime Oldies B90FM", this station was similar to Christchurch radio station Goodtime Oldies B98FM.