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WLKZ is an American licensed radio station in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, serving the Lakes Region. The station is owned by Dirk Nadon, through licensee Lakes Media, LLC, and carries a classic rock format, under the "104.9 The Hawk" branding. History The original construction permit for the station was granted on July 1, 1983, and the WLKZ call letters were assigned on October 11; it took to the air on February 1, 1985, and a license to cover was granted on June 4, 1985. During the 1980s, WLKZ offered an adult contemporary format; by 1996, it was offering an oldies format. Initially, the station aired the format on its own; however, in 2000, original owner Jay Williams sold the station to Tele-Media, owner of similarly-formatted WNNH in the nearby Concord market. Tele-Media sold WLKZ, WNNH, and WHOB (now WFNQ) to Nassau Broadcasting Partners in 2004. Nevertheless, the station continued to be programmed and branded separately from WNNH until 2007, when Nassau consolidated the t ...
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WLKZ Former Logo (1996-2001)
WLKZ is an American licensed radio station in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, serving the Lakes Region (New Hampshire), Lakes Region. The station is owned by Dirk Nadon, through licensee Lakes Media, LLC, and carries a classic rock format, under the "104.9 The Hawk" branding. History The original construction permit for the station was granted on July 1, 1983, and the WLKZ call letters were assigned on October 11; it took to the air on February 1, 1985, and a license to cover was granted on June 4, 1985. During the 1980s, WLKZ offered an adult contemporary format; by 1996, it was offering an oldies format. Initially, the station aired the format on its own; however, in 2000, original owner Jay Williams sold the station to Tele-Media, owner of similarly-formatted WNNH in the nearby Concord, New Hampshire, Concord market. Tele-Media sold WLKZ, WNNH, and WHOB (now WFNQ) to Nassau Broadcasting Partners in 2004. Nevertheless, the station continued to be programmed and branded separately ...
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WWLK-FM
WWLK-FM (101.5 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station licensed to Meredith, New Hampshire, and serving the Lakes Region. The station broadcasts a soft adult contemporary radio format and is owned by Dirk Nadon, through licensee Lakes Media, LLC. The studios and offices are on Church Street in Concord, New Hampshire. WWLK-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 6,000 watts. The transmitter is on Pickerel Pond Road at Parade Road in Laconia, New Hampshire. History Rock format The station signed on the air on November 16, 1988. It was owned by Latchkey Broadcasting and aired an adult album-oriented rock format under the call sign WMRQ. The station was founded by Dirk Nadon and his stepfather Bill Forbes. In a 2018 interview with ''The Laconia Daily Sun'', Nadon recalled that, "At the time, it was the only rock station north of Manchester," with that city's WGIR-FM being the nearest rock station and most Lakes Region stations programming adult contemporary formats. Adult con ...
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Frank FM
Frank FM is the branding used by WBIN Media for its radio stations airing a classic hits radio format. The Frank FM format is similar to the Jack FM format in that these stations play around 1000 songs in regular rotation at any time as opposed to the average number of 300 to 600 songs heard regularly on most commercial radio stations. However, Frank FM playlists otherwise resemble other classic hits stations rather than that of variety hits stations. The Frank FM stations are: *107.5 WFNK in Lewiston, Maine (serving Portland) *106.9 WBQX in Thomaston, Maine (serving Mid Coast Maine) *106.3 WFNQ in Nashua, New Hampshire (serving Manchester and Nashua) *98.3 WLNH-FM in Laconia, New Hampshire (serving the Lakes Region) *98.7 WBYY in Somersworth, New Hampshire (serving the New Hampshire Seacoast Region). The two Maine-based Frank FM stations have a playlist that leans toward classic rock, while the New Hampshire-based stations include a mix of rock, pop and dance hits in t ...
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WNNH
WNNH (99.1 FM; "99.1 The Bone") is a commercial radio station owned by Binnie Media. WNNH is licensed to Henniker, New Hampshire, and serves the Concord-Manchester area. Its transmitter is on Watchtower Road in Hopkinton and its studios and offices are on Church Street in Concord. WNNH airs an active rock radio format, as part of Binnie Media's "Bone" franchise. The "Bone" branding and format is shared with WHXR (106.3 FM) in Portland, Maine. History WNNH first signed on the air in October 1989 from the Pats Peak Ski Area in Henniker, with studios on South Street in Concord. The station's original owner was Clark Smidt, who programmed several Boston FM stations in the 1970s, including WEEI-FM (103.3, now WBGB) and WBZ-FM (106.7, now WMJX). WNNH's original format was oldies. In the early days, the station also marketed itself to the Manchester area, even though it was a rimshot signal into Manchester itself, and practically inaudible south of the city. At the outset, WNNH ...
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WFNQ
WFNQ (106.3 FM; "Frank FM") is a radio station in Nashua, New Hampshire, serving the Manchester area with a hot adult contemporary radio format. It is owned by Binnie Media. The station's studios are located on Church Street in Concord, and its transmitter is located in Merrimack, just west of the Merrimack Premium Outlets. WFNQ can also be received in the northern portion of the Boston media market. The station has FM co-channel interference with Providence-market WWKX past this area. WFNQ is the flagship station of a three-station network under the Frank FM branding. 98.3 WLNH-FM in Laconia (serving the Lakes Region) and 98.7 WBYY in Somersworth (serving the Seacoast Region) share WFNQ's playlist, on-air staff, and branding, but have separate commercials. Additionally, 99.1 WNNH previously served as a full simulcast of WFNQ for areas north and west of Manchester; it is now an active rock station. History WFNQ signed on October 19, 1987, as WHOB, under the ownership ...
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Nassau Broadcasting Partners
Nassau Broadcasting Partners LP was a company based in Princeton, New Jersey that owned radio stations in New England and the Mid-Atlantic United States. Nassau's stations, which included both AM and FM frequencies, were located in Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The company was owned and headed by Louis F. Mercatanti. Nassau was predominantly an operator of radio stations in medium and small markets. Nassau formerly owned radio station WCRB in Waltham, a Boston suburb, and located in the Boston market, the 11th largest radio market in the US, according to BIA Financial Network. However that station was sold to WGBH in 2009. Nassau operated radio stations in substantially all of the major formats. The company's most common format was classic rock/classic hits. On October 13, 2011 Nassau Broadcasting entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after their senior lenders petitioned for an involuntary Chapter 7 liquidation in September. The stations were auctioned to various ...
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WTPL
WTPL (107.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a news/talk format. Licensed to Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, it serves the Manchester and Concord areas. The station is owned by Bill Binnie's Binnie Media, through licensee WBIN Media Co., Inc. It airs a news/talk radio format. It the flagship station of "The Pulse of NH", a trimulcast with WTSN in the Seacoast Region and WEMJ in the Lakes Region. History The original construction permit for the station was granted on August 4, 1987, under the call sign of WRCI; a license to cover was granted on September 7, 1990. However, the station's original owners, Empire Radio Partners, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992, and the station was sold to Radioworks in 1993. By 1994, WRCI was serving as a simulcast of its then-sister station WJYY (105.5), an adult contemporary station. The station had changed simulcast partners to WNHI (93.3; now WNHW), a classic rock station, by 1996. Radioworks sold its stations to Vox Me ...
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Radio Stations In New Hampshire
The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WCNH (Bow, New Hampshire) References {{Navboxes , title = New Hampshire radio station regional navigation boxes , list = {{Brattleboro-Keene Radio {{Concord (Lakes Region) Radio {{Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction Radio {{Manchester, New Hampshire radio {{North Conway Radio {{Northeast Kingdom and Northern New Hampshire Radio {{Portsmouth Radio New Hampshire Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmit ...
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Laconia Daily Sun
''The Laconia Daily Sun'' is a five-day (Tuesday through Saturday) free morning daily newspaper published in the city of Laconia, New Hampshire, United States, covering Belknap County and the Lakes Region. Each publication day, 18,000 copies of the paper are distributed by bulk drops at more than 300 locations. Home delivery is available for a fee. The paper also publishes a free online edition. The newspaper draws many of its readers from Laconia, but also covers Alton (and Alton Bay), Belmont, Center Harbor, Gilford, Gilmanton, Meredith, Sanbornton and Tilton (including Winnisquam), all in Belknap County.The Laconia Daily Sun Advertising Ratecard
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WAKC
WAKC (102.3 FM) is an American licensed radio station in Concord, New Hampshire. The station is owned by the Educational Media Foundation and is part of its K-Love network of contemporary Christian music outlets. History The station began operations March 7, 1972 as WKXL-FM, the FM sister station to WKXL (1450 AM), under the ownership of Frank Estes, who also owned WKXR in Exeter, New Hampshire. In 1980, Estes sold the WKXL stations to a group of station employees. The 102.3 FM signal was largely a repeater of the 1450 AM broadcast until 1986 when the owners launched a "light alternative" adult album alternative format named "The Music Zone" and featured artists such as The Cure, Poi Dog Pondering, 10,000 Maniacs, The Pixies, The Call, and U2. The Music Zone format continued until 1991 when financial pressures returned the FM signal to a simulcast of the AM broadcast. In 1999, the employee group sold the WKXL stations to Vox Media, who, after buying WRCI (107.7 FM) in nea ...
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WWJE-DT
WWJE-DT (channel 50) is a television station licensed to Derry, New Hampshire, United States, serving the Boston area as an affiliate of True Crime Network. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision alongside Marlborough, Massachusetts–licensed Univision- owned station WUNI (channel 66). The two stations share main studios and transmitter facilities on Parmenter Road in Hudson, Massachusetts. WWJE is operated separately from WUNI's joint sales agreement (JSA) with Entravision Communications–owned UniMás affiliate WUTF-TV (channel 27) in Worcester. WWJE formerly broadcast local newscasts from a studio located in Concord, branded as the NH1 News Network or ''NH1 News''. Besides WBIN, sister radio station WNNH also used the ''NH1 News'' branding from August 2015 to August 2017. WBIN-TV was one of only two television stations based in the state of New Hampshire to broadcast local newscasts (alongside WMUR-TV), as much of the state is part of the Boston media market. On February 17, 20 ...
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William Harrison Binnie
William Harrison "Bill" Binnie is an American industrialist, investment banker, and philanthropist, who is currently president of the Carlisle Capital Corporation,http://www.manta.com/company/mm42n0p president of the media company New Hampshire 1 Network and owner of Carlisle One Media. He is the former Chairman of the Finance Committee for the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, and a former candidate for the Republican nomination for the U. S. Senate in 2010. He served as chairman of Carlisle Plastics, Inc. until that firm was sold to Tyco International in September 1996. Education Binnie was born in Scotland and immigrated to the United States at the age of 5. He attended Harvard University on a scholarship. As a student, he was a research fellow for the ''Accounting Review'', a journal on finance and accounting. Upon graduation, he attended Harvard Business School, where he served as president of the Management Consulting Club. After graduation, he took a position as ...
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