WFNQ
| City of license | Nashua, New Hampshire |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Southern New Hampshire and northern Massachusetts |
| Branding | 106.3 Frank FM |
| Slogan | Merrimack Valley's Classic Rock Station |
| Frequency | 106.3 MHz |
| First air date | October 19, 1987 (as WHOB) |
| Format | Classic rock |
| ERP | 950 watts |
| HAAT | 165 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 23329 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Callsign meaning | FNQ = Frank |
| Former callsigns | WHOB (1987–2005) |
| Owner | Binnie Media (WBIN Media Co., Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WBIN-TV, WEMJ, WJYY, WLNH-FM, WNNH, WNHW, WYCN-CD |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www.1063frankfm.com |
WFNQ (106.3 FM "106.3 Frank FM") is a radio station in Nashua, New Hampshire, serving the Manchester, New Hampshire area with a classic rock/classic hits radio format. It is owned by Binnie Media. The station's studios are located in Nashua.
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.
History
WFNQ signed on October 19, 1987[1] as WHOB, under the ownership of Mario DiCarlo.[2] Although WHOB was a new license, it inherited the allocation previously assigned to WOTW-FM,[2] which operated from 1947[3] until 1985.[4] At one time a CHR station, the station began mixing in modern rock in 1996,[5] and had shifted to hot adult contemporary by 1999, when DiCarlo retired and sold WHOB to Tele-Media.[2]
Tele-Media sold WHOB, along with WNNH in Henniker and WLKZ in Wolfeboro, to Nassau Broadcasting Partners in 2004.[6] Nassau dropped the hot AC format in favor of the "Frank FM" classic hits format (the second Nassau station, after WFNK in Lewiston, Maine, to do so) and the WFNQ callsign on March 17, 2005.[7] 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 owns WBIN-TV in Derry and WYCN-CD in Nashua.[8][9] The deal was completed on November 30, 2012.[10]
On June 1, 2015 WFNQ shifted their format to classic rock.
Previous Logo
(WFNQ's logo under previous classic hits format)
References
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External links
- Official website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WFNQ
- Radio-Locator information on WFNQ
- Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WFNQ
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