WPKX (AM)
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| City | Rochester, New Hampshire |
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| Broadcast area | Seacoast Region |
| Branding | Fox Sports 930 |
| Frequency | 930 kHz |
| First air date | 1947 (as WWNH) |
| Format | Sports |
| Power | 5,000 watts |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 53387 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°17′13.0″N 70°56′55.0″W / 43.286944°N 70.948611°W |
| Former callsigns | WWNH (1947–1987) WKOS (1987–1990) WZNN (1990–1998) WGIN (1998–2012) |
| Affiliations | Fox Sports Radio |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia, Inc. (Capstar TX LLC) |
| Sister stations | WERZ, WHEB, WPLA, WQSO, WTBU |
| Webcast | Listen Live (via iHeartRadio) |
| Website | foxsports930.com |
WPKX (930 kHz "Fox Sports 930") is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Rochester, New Hampshire that broadcasts a sports radio format, largely supplied from Fox Sports Radio. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and serves the Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester media market, also heard in Southern Maine. WPKX broadcasts at 5000 watts around the clock from a transmitter off Route 108 in Rochester. To protect other stations on 930 kHz, WPKX uses a directional antenna at night.
WPKX signed on in 1947 as WWNH, owned by Strafford Broadcasting Corporation. Initially a 1,000 watt daytimer, the station boosted power to 5,000 watts in 1954 and added night service, with the same power, in 1967. WWNH was an easy listening station by 1971; that year, the station began an affiliation with CBS Radio. It became a contemporary station in 1974. An FM sister station, WWNH-FM (96.7 FM; now WQSO) was added October 21, 1979.
Strafford Broadcasting Corporation sold WWNH to Salmanson Communications Partners in 1987; by then, the station had a country music format. Salmanson later changed the call letters to WKOS (matching the WKOS-FM call letters adopted by 96.7 in 1987) and the format to adult standards, via the AM Only service from Transtar Radio Networks (now America's Best Music from Westwood One). (The WWNH call letters are now assigned to 1340 AM in Madbury.) Another sale, this time to Bear Broadcasting Company, followed in 1990; Bear again changed the station's call letters and format, this time to WZNN and all-news, largely via a simulcast of CNN Headline News. In 1994, WZNN was again sold, this time to Precision Media, owner of WMYF (1540 AM, now WXEX) and WERZ (107.1 FM); Precision reverted the station to standards in 1995, a format it also ran on WMYF. However, although WZNN and WMYF simulcast a local morning show, the station could not air the Stardust programming WMYF aired the remainder of the day, as WZNN's signal overlapped with that network's Lakes Region affiliate, WASR; as a result, the station rejoined AM Only.
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