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WFNQ (106.3 FM; "
On April 1, 2019, WNNH in Henniker began simulcasting WFNQ, bringing the station's programming to Concord and the northern part of the Manchester market. On May 24, 2019,
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 t ...
") is a radio station
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in Nashua, New Hampshire
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, serving the Manchester
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area with a hot adult contemporary
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radio format
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. It is owned by Binnie Media. The station's studios are located on Church Street in Concord
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Meaning "agreement"
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* Harmony, in music
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, 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
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media market
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. The station has FM co-channel interference
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with Providence
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* Providentia, the divine personification of foresight in ancient Roman religion
* Divine providence, divinely ordained events and outcomes in Christianity
* Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of Rhode Island in the ...
-market WWKX
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past this area.
WFNQ is the flagship
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station of a three-station network under the Frank FM branding. 98.3 WLNH-FM
WLNH-FM (98.3 MHz) — branded as Frank FM — is a radio station located in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States. The station broadcasts to the Lakes Region and Concord, New Hampshire. The format is hot adult contemporary music, and on air ...
in Laconia
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(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
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 ...
previously served as a full simulcast of WFNQ for areas north and west of Manchester; it is now an active rock
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station.
History
WFNQ signed on October 19, 1987, as WHOB, under the ownership of Mario DiCarlo. Although WHOB was a new license, it inherited the allocation previously assigned to WOTW-FM, which operated from 1947 until 1985. At one time a CHR station, the station began mixing inmodern rock
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Mod ...
in 1996, and had shifted to hot adult contemporary
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by 1999, when DiCarlo retired and sold WHOB to Tele-Media.
Tele-Media sold WHOB, along with 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 ...
in Henniker and WLKZ
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Hist ...
in Wolfeboro, to Nassau Broadcasting Partners
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in 2004. Nassau dropped the hot AC format in favor of the "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 t ...
" classic hits
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format (the second Nassau station, after WFNK
WFNK (107.5 FM) – branded ''Frank 107.5 –'' is a commercial classic hits radio station licensed to serve Lewiston, Maine. Owned by Binnie Media, the station services the Portland metropolitan area. WFNK has an effective radiated power (ERP) ...
in Lewiston, Maine
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, to do so) and the WFNQ callsign on March 17, 2005. The station, along with 16 other Nassau stations in northern New England, was purchased at bankruptcy auction by WBIN Media Company, a company controlled by Bill Binnie, on May 22, 2012. Binnie already owned WBIN-TV in Derry
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and WYCN-LP in Nashua. The deal was completed on November 30, 2012.
On June 1, 2015, WFNQ shifted its format to classic rock
Classic rock is a US radio format which developed from the album-oriented rock (AOR) format in the early 1980s. In the United States, the classic rock format comprises rock music ranging generally from the mid-1960s through the mid 1990s, primar ...
. It switched back to classic hits in 2018.
On April 1, 2019, WNNH in Henniker began simulcasting WFNQ, bringing the station's programming to Concord and the northern part of the Manchester market. On May 24, 2019, WLNH-FM
WLNH-FM (98.3 MHz) — branded as Frank FM — is a radio station located in Laconia, New Hampshire, United States. The station broadcasts to the Lakes Region and Concord, New Hampshire. The format is hot adult contemporary music, and on air ...
in Laconia
Laconia or Lakonia ( el, Λακωνία, , ) is a historical and administrative region of Greece located on the southeastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. Its administrative capital is Sparta. The word ''laconic''—to speak in a blunt, c ...
and WBYY in Somersworth began carrying WFNQ's programming, but with separate advertising, forming a regional network. The Frank FM network transitioned to a hot adult contemporary format during 2021; during this transition, on September 3, 2021, WNNH left the network and launched its own active rock
Active rock is a radio format used by many commercial radio stations across the United States and Canada. Active rock stations play a balance of new hard rock songs with valued classic rock favorites, normally with an emphasis on the harder edge o ...
format.
References
External links
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