Hit Radio X105 was a radio station launched in Wellington on 26 November 2009. The station broadcast on 105.3FM in the Wellington region on one of the newly designated "local commercial licences" that were issued by the NZ Government in May 2008. As a result, New Zealand's largest radio companies RadioWorks and The Radio Network could not buy the station out. The station played a Hit Music format similar to that of ZM (which is a top rating station in Wellington) and The Edge FM.The station was unique in the fact that it was a 24-hour live station, rotating mid-dawn shifts which allowed for more cost effective announcing.