Editing Oamaru (section)

== Media ==
The ''[[Oamaru Mail]]'' is a weekly newspaper published every Friday by Allied Press Ltd. It has a team of reporters, who also write for the ''[[Otago Daily Times]]'', based in Oamaru. It has served the people of the Waitaki region since 1876. ''[[The Oamaru Telegram]]'' is published every Tuesday and is produced, printed and published in Oamaru.

The town is within the coverage area of [[Radio Dunedin]] and within the circulation area of the ''[[Otago Daily Times]]'', based in Dunedin. Oamaru has its own [[community television]] station, "45 South Television", which transmits from Cape Wanbrow on UHF Digital channel 34, and an independent classic rock radio station ''Real Classic Rock'', which has studios based in Thames Street, and transmits from Cape Wanbrow. Oamaru also has a radio station called Oamaru FM 91.2 that also broadcasts from Cape Wanbrow.

From 1980 onwards, Oamaru was served by local [[Radio New Zealand]] station [[Radio Waitaki]], until it was rebranded as The Hits in 2014. [[Port FM]] in Timaru also formerly broadcast local station Whitestone FM, before it reverted to the Port FM network, later becoming a [[More FM]] station.