AM radio
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station licensed to
Springfield, Vermont
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History
The land currently recognized as Springfield is the traditional land of the Pennacook and Abenaki people.
One of the ...
watt
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s during the day. Programming is also simulcast on
translator
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W293BH, 106.5 FM. The station carries
Boston Red Sox
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baseball from the
Red Sox Radio Network
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, & the
Boston Bruins Radio Network The Boston Bruins Radio Network is a 17-station (9 AM, 9 FM, plus 3 FM translators) network which carries live game broadcasts of the Boston Bruins. The network's flagship station is WBZ-FM/98.5- Boston, Massachusetts. Judd Sirott announces play-b ...
.
History
WCFR was started in 1954 as WNIX. It was purchased by Vermont broadcasting legend Carlos Zezza in the 1950s, renaming the station for the first initials of Zezza's three children in 1957. WCFR enjoyed many years as a successful music station.
Zezza sold WCFR to Sconnix in 1974, who changed the format from
Top-40
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to
adult contemporary
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. Zezza's son Frank led a group that purchased the station back from Sconnix in the early 1980s. By this time, WCFR's popularity waned in favor of its FM sister station, WCFR-FM (now
WEEY
WEEY (93.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Swanzey, New Hampshire. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio, LLC and serves as the Keene affiliate for WEEI-FM.
History
The WEEY license was originally allocated to Springfield, Verm ...
).
The 1990s saw several changes in ownership and WCFR carried various formats through the decade. In September 1998, WCFR changed from adult standards to a business news format. Two months later, the station was leased to Brian Dodge, at which point the station switched to a simulcast of the
religious
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Madbury, New Hampshire
Madbury is a town in Strafford County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,918 at the 2020 census.
History
Madbury was originally a part of Dover called "Barbadoes", after the West Indies island of Barbados with which settlers c ...
, under the WNBX callsign. Dodge left the station in 2000 after being charged with domestic assault, leaving WNBX silent until new operators could be found.
Bob Vinikoor bought the station in 2001 and switched it to a simulcast of established FM talk station WNTK-FM. The format was switched to
oldies
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in 2003 and the WCFR call letters returned in 2005. WCFR switched to
classic hits
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in 2007 and to adult contemporary in 2009.
On February 3, 2017, WFCR and its FM translator W293BH 106.5 FM were sold to Sugar River Media LLC. The station was re-branded to The All-New Rewind 106.5/1480 WCFR.
Former sister station WCFR-FM on 93.5 was sold separately from the AM WCFR in 2001 and was moved to Swanzey, New Hampshire in 2008 (it is now
WEEY
WEEY (93.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve Swanzey, New Hampshire. The station is owned by Great Eastern Radio, LLC and serves as the Keene affiliate for WEEI-FM.
History
The WEEY license was originally allocated to Springfield, Verm ...
).
WFYX
WFYX (96.3 FM, "Kool") is a radio station broadcasting an oldies music format. Licensed to Walpole, New Hampshire, United States, it serves the Monadnock Region in Southwestern New Hampshire and Southeastern Vermont. It first began broadcasting ...
was known as WCFR-FM until owner
Nassau Broadcasting
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Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania
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, parked the WPLY-FM call letters on 96.3 in
Walpole, New Hampshire
Walpole is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 3,633 at the 2020 census.
The town's central village, where 573 people resided at the 2020 census, is defined as the Walpole census-designated place (CDP) and ...