WZID

WZID

City	Manchester, New Hampshire
Broadcast area	Southern New Hampshire
Branding	95.7 WZID
Slogan	Today's Variety
Frequency	95.7 MHz (also on HD Radio)
Repeater(s)	94.1 W231BR (Manchester, relays HD2) 103.1 W276BJ (Concord, relays HD2) 99.9 W260CF (Manchester, relays HD3)
First air date	October 2, 1947 (as WKBR-FM)
Format	Adult Contemporary HD2: Top 40 HD3: WFEA
Audience share	20.8 (Fa'07, R&R^[1])
ERP	14,500 watts
HAAT	282 meters (925 ft)
Class	B
Facility ID	58550
Transmitter coordinates	42°59′2.00″N 71°35′22.00″W / 42.9838889°N 71.5894444°W / 42.9838889; -71.5894444
Former callsigns	WKBR-FM (1947–1971)
Affiliations	Dial Global
Owner	Saga Communications (Saga Communications of New England, LLC)
Sister stations	WFEA, WMLL
Webcast	Listen Live
Website	wzid.com hothitsnh.com (HD2)

WZID (95.7 FM) is an American radio station with an Adult contemporary music format. WZID is located at 500 Commercial Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. Its signal can be heard as far south as Route 128 in Massachusetts, as far east as southern Maine and as far west as Vermont.

History

The station was born October 2, 1947 as WKBR-FM. Throughout the 1960s, and very early 1970s, WKBR-FM simulcasted the Top 40 format of WKBR-AM 1250, providing that station with significant extended coverage. In July 1971, WKBR-FM became WZID, and the format was flipped to Beautiful music. In the 1980s, instrumental easy listening music was scaled back, with soft vocal hits added, to the point where the station evolved into an Adult Contemporary station. In October 1990, Sunshine Broadcasting of New Hampshire Inc. announced the sale of WZID and 1370 WFEA (AM) to Saga Communications Inc. of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The sale was finalized April 16, 1991. Saga Communications of New England LLC operates the station today. WZID's President and General Manager is Raymond Garon.^[2]

Translators

WZID used to be heard on translator station, W270AH 101.9 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. However in 2008, Saga Communications filed a series of minor translator applications which moved the translator into the Keene radio market as W276CB, a translator of Saga radio station WKNE's HD3 Channel as "Kool 103.1" (now "103.1 The Mountain").

Up until mid-January 2009, WZID had two more translators, W231BR 94.1 in Manchester at 250 watts and W276BJ 103.1 in Concord, also at 250 watts, but in January 2009 those two translators were turned into the new "Hot Hits 94.1 and 103.1", a simulcast of WZID's HD-2 channel, which is a top 40 station broadcasting Dial Global's Hits Now! format; branding themselves as the new hit music station in New Hampshire. Saga Communications obviously had been planning this out for some time because both the translator's power was recently increased from low power to 250 watts. This station somewhat poses as a threat to WJYY and even WFTN-FM, but has an inferior signal compared to the two. Saga was able to open up this new station due to a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules that allows HD sub-channel stations to be repeated on translators. Recently, Hot Hits increased its power on 94.1 to give coverage improvements to the Keene, Portsmouth and Lowell areas. On December 11, 2013, WZID-FM was granted permission to implement its 94.1 W231BR-FM translator's HAAT increase up to 18 meters (59 feet) (although the ERP of would remain at 250 Watts), to improve 94.1 W231BR-FM's coverage of surrounding communities (such as Keene, Portsmouth and Lowell).^[3]

Beginning in mid July 2015, WZID began simulcasting sister station WFEA - AM 1370 on its HD-3 channel which in turn is broadcast on newly purchased 110 watt translator W260CF serving the greater Manchester area from its tower on Mt. Uncanoonuc in Goffstown at 99.9 FM.

References

↑ "Manchester Market Ratings". Radio & Records.
↑ "WFEA History". Retrieved 2008-05-04.
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External links

WZID Website

Query the FCC's FM station database for WZID

Radio-Locator information on WZID

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for WZID

Query the FCC's FM station database for W231BR

Radio-Locator information on W231BR

Query Nielsen Audio's FM station database for W231BR

Query the FCC's FM station database for W276BJ

Radio-Locator information on W276BJ

Radio stations in the Manchester, New Hampshire market

By AM frequency	610 900 1250 1320 1370 1590 1620¹

By FM frequency	89.1 90.5 90.7 92.1 92.5 94.1 95.7 96.5 97.5 97.9 99.5 101.1 102.9 104.5 105.1 105.5 106.3 106.9 107.7

By callsign	W231BR W250AB W295BL WBNH-LP WCRB WDER WEVO WFEA WFNQ WGAM WGHM WGIR WGIR-FM WJYY WLLO-LP WLMW WMLL WOKQ WSMN WTPL WXLO WXRV WYDI WZID "Radio SNHU"¹

New Hampshire radio markets Concord (Lakes Region) Lebanon Manchester Portsmouth–Dover–Rochester Other New Hampshire radio regions Northern New Hampshire ¹ = Part 15 radio stations See also Concord Boston Lebanon Portsmouth Portland Worcester

Radio stations in central New Hampshire, including Concord, Laconia, Plymouth and Conway

By AM frequency	1240 1250 1300 1340 1350 1420 1450 1490

By FM frequency	89.1 90.5 91.1 91.5 91.7 91.7 93.3 93.5 94.1 94.7 94.9 95.7 96.5 97.5 98.3 99.1 100.1 101.5 102.3 103.1 103.7 103.9 104.3 104.5 104.9 105.5 106.9 107.7

By callsign	W276BJ W280EC W282AF WASR WBNC WCNH WEMJ WEVO WEZS WFTN WFTN-FM WGAM WHOM WJYY WKXL WLKZ WLNH-FM WMLL WMWV WNEC-FM WNHN-LP WNHW WNNH WOKQ WPCR-FM WPKQ WPNH WPNH-FM WSCY WSPS WTPL WVMJ WVNH WXRG WZEI WZID

Defunct radio stations	WPQR/1050

See also Boston Northern New Hampshire Portsmouth Portland Manchester Lebanon Lewiston-Auburn

Radio stations in Boston, including Eastern Massachusetts

By AM frequency	590 650 680 740 800 850 890 950 980² 1030¹ 1060² 1090 1120 1150 1200 1230² 1260 1300 1330 1360 1390² 1410 1430 1460² ³ 1470 1490² 1510 1550 1570² 1600

By FM frequency	88.1 88.9 89.7 90.3 90.9 91.5 91.5 91.5² 91.5 91.7 91.9 92.5² 92.9 93.7 94.5 95.3 95.9² 96.9 97.7 98.5 99.1² 99.5 99.9 100.1 100.7 101.7 102.5 103.3 104.1 104.5² 104.9² 104.9 105.7 106.7 107.3² 107.9

Via FM subcarrier	67 kHz Radio Maria Estados Unidos (Spanish) Talking Information Center (radio reading service) TNT Radio Boston (Vietnamese) 92 kHz Radio Voie du Salut (Haitian Creole/English religion)

By NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.425 162.475

Digital radio by frequency & subchannel	1030 1430 88.9-1 89.7-1 89.7-2 89.7-3 90.9-1 92.9-1 92.9-2 94.5-1 94.5-2 96.9-1 96.9-2 97.7-1 97.7-2 97.7-3 98.5-1 98.5-2 98.5-3 100.7-1 100.7-2 100.7-3 102.5-1 103.3-1 104.1-1 104.1-2 104.1-3 104.1-4 105.7-1 106.7-1 106.7-2 107.3-1 107.3-2 107.3-3 107.9-1 107.9-2

By callsign	KHB35 WAAF² WAMG WATD² WATD-FM² WAZN WBIX WBMX WBNW² WBOQ² WBOS WBQT WBRS WBUR-FM WBWL WBZ WBZ-FM WCAP² WCEC² WCRB WEEI WEEI-FM WERS WESX² WEZE WGBH WHHB WHRB WILD WJDA WJIB WJMN WKAF WKLB-FM WKOX WLYN WMBR WMEX WMFO WMJX WMLN-FM WMVX² WMWM WNG574 WNTN WODS WPLM² WPLM-FM² WQOM WRBB WRCA WRKO WROL WROR-FM WSRO WUMB-FM WUML² WUNR WWDJ WXLO² WXKS WXKS-FM WXRV WZBC WZBR WZLX WZLY

Internet stations	WBCN RadioBDC

Defunct stations	WDIS WFNX WGI/WARC

Nearby Markets Providence Manchester Worcester Cape Cod Concord Newport Springfield Portsmouth ¹ = Clear-channel stations with extended nighttime coverage. ² = A station from a neighboring market that serves Boston and area, and is considered a "Boston station" by Nielsen Audio. ³ = Station is silent.

Adult Contemporary radio stations in the state of New Hampshire

By frequency	94.9 95.7 96.7 97.7 98.7

By callsign	WBYY WHOM WLTN-FM WSNI WZID

By community of license	Lisbon Manchester Mount Washington Somersworth Swanzey

See also adult contemporary classic hits college country news/talk NPR oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in New Hampshire

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