WNMH is a

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station

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format. The station is owned by

Northfield Mount Hermon School Northfield Mount Hermon School, often called NMH, is a co-educational preparatory school in Gill, Massachusetts, in the United States. It is a member of the Eight Schools Association. Present day NMH offers nearly 200 courses, including AP and ...

. From 1984 until 2010, the station was licensed to operate on 91.5 FM from

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, United States and featured programming from ABC Radio. From 2014 until 2017, Northfield Mount Hermon School held a

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for a low-power FM station, WNMH-LP (106.7 FM) in Mount Hermon (a section of

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), which would have restored WNMH's programming to the FM dial. , WNMH continues to operate as an

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station on wnmh.live.

History

The former WNMH (to 2010)

WNMH signed on September 10, 1984. The station's license at Northfield was cancelled by the

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(FCC) on September 28, 2010 when the campus was sold.

WNMH-LP

The FCC granted a new

on April 21, 2014, to broadcast FM from the NMH campus at Mount Hermon (in Gill, Massachusetts) from the studios in Crossley Hall. WNMH Radio has webcast its signal continuously over the years, beginning with Christmas Vespers in 2004. The construction permit expired on April 21, 2017; the FCC canceled the permit that day.

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* NMH High school radio stations in the United States Internet radio stations in the United States Defunct radio stations in the United States NMH Radio stations established in 1984 1984 establishments in Massachusetts Radio stations disestablished in 2010 2010 disestablishments in Massachusetts Northfield, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-radio-station-stub