WTKK is a New England commercial talk radio station, first broadcast out of Boston on 96.9 FM beginning in 1999. It can be heard in eastern Massachusetts, the northernmost area of Rhode Island, and southern New Hampshire and southern Maine. Stations on 96.7 in Rochester, New Hampshire may limit WTKK's potential audience in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire.
The station originated in 1945 as W1XHR (later WXHR), owned by Harvey Radio Laboratorie...
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WTKK is a New England commercial talk radio station, first broadcast out of Boston on 96.9 FM beginning in 1999. It can be heard in eastern Massachusetts, the northernmost area of Rhode Island, and southern New Hampshire and southern Maine. Stations on 96.7 in Rochester, New Hampshire may limit WTKK's potential audience in the Seacoast Region of New Hampshire.
The station originated in 1945 as W1XHR (later WXHR), owned by Harvey Radio Laboratories. In 1967 WXHR was sold to the Boston Globe and became the beautiful music station WJIB (whose AM successor operates out of the old Harvey Radio Labs building in Cambridge). After several further ownership changes — first to General Electric in 1972, then to NBC in 1986 (following a merger between NBC's parent company, RCA, and GE) and Emmis Communications in 1988 — it operated as smooth jazz station WCDJ from 1990 to 1993. After Greater Media bought the station, the station was converted to country as WBCS. The station became WKLB-FM in 1996...
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