WBNW (1120 AM) is a business

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station in the

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market. The station is owned by Money Matters Radio, Inc. and is licensed to

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. It is simulcast on

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W275CM (102.9 FM) in Concord. WBNW's flagship program, ''The Financial Exchange'', is syndicated to several other stations in

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through the Money Matters Radio Network. Among the talk hosts have been Michael Graham,

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, and

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were added to the lineup.

History

The station first took to the air August 28, 1989 as WADN, with a

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format. (subscription content preview) Much of the station's staff had previously worked at an earlier Boston-area folk music station, WCAS (740 AM, now

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). Original owner Walden Communications Company sold the station to Assabet Communications Corporation on June 4, 1993. Shortly after the original WBNW (590 AM) was acquired by

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and became

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station

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in December 1996, WADN announced that it would begin carrying some

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programming; by the end of the month, the folk format was moved to weekends only to accommodate the business and talk programming, and in April 1997 folk was dropped entirely. Money Matters Radio bought WADN in 1998; it had produced the station's morning show, also simulcast on WPLM (1390 AM) in

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, WNRB (1510 AM, now WMEX) in Boston, and Attleboro-based WARA (1320 AM), since 1997. The call letters were changed to WBNW on December 1, 1998 – a move to reinforce the station format's link to the former WBNW. The station currently belongs to a partnership led by Canadian–American investment counsellor Barry Armstrong.

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