WPKX#Expanded Band assignment

Most of WPKX's programming is provided by Fox Sports Radio. The station also carries play-by-play of Boston Bruins hockey, New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball, and the New Hampshire Wildcats (serving as co-flagship of the University of New Hampshire Wildcat Sports Network with WGIR and WQSO).

WPKX signed on in 1947{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1981|year=1981|pages=C-147–8|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1981/Cb%20Facilities%20of%20Radio%201981%20N-Z.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008193016/http://davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1981/Cb%20Facilities%20of%20Radio%201981%20N-Z.pdf|archive-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=dead}} as WWNH, owned by Strafford Broadcasting Corporation.{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1948|year=1948|page=156|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Broadcasting%201948%20Yearbook%20Page%20Range%20Guide_files/101-200%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201948-2.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=September 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1949|year=1949|page=174|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1949/101-200%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201949-2.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Initially, a 1,000 watt daytimer,{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook-Marketbook 1954|year=1954|page=212|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1954/201-300%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201954-3.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} the station boosted power to 5,000 watts in 1954{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook-Marketbook 1955|year=1955|page=202|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1955/All%20Radio%20States%20N%20to%20Z%201955.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and added night service, with the same power in 1967.{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1967|year=1967|page=B-101|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1967/B%202%20Radio%201967%20YB.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110322092200/http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1967/B%202%20Radio%201967%20YB.pdf|archive-date=March 22, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1968|year=1968|page=B-103|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1968/B%202%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201968.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206020442/http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1968/B%202%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201968.pdf|archive-date=February 6, 2011|url-status=dead}} WWNH was an easy listening station by 1971;{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1971|year=1971|page=B-130|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1971/B%202%20Radio%20YB%201971.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008150638/http://davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1971/B%202%20Radio%20YB%201971.pdf|archive-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=dead}} that year, the station began an affiliation with CBS Radio.{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1972|year=1972|page=B-131|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1972/B-2%20YB%201972%20All-12.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} It became a contemporary station in 1974.{{cite book|title=Broadcasting Yearbook 1975|year=1975|page=C-119|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1975/C%202%201975%20Radio.pdf|access-date=February 16, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008161835/http://davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1975/C%202%201975%20Radio.pdf|archive-date=October 8, 2010|url-status=dead}} 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;{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=101655|title=Application Search Details (1)|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=February 16, 2010}} by then, the station had a country music format.{{cite book|title=Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1988|year=1988|page=B-179|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1988/B%20Radio%20Broadcasting%20Yearbook%201988-5.pdf|access-date=April 5, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|title=Broadcasting/Cablecasting Yearbook 1989|year=1989|page=B-189|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1989/B-2%20Radio%20Neb%20to%20Terr%201989-5.pdf|access-date=April 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110409143955/http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1989/B-2%20Radio%20Neb%20to%20Terr%201989-5.pdf|archive-date=April 9, 2011|url-status=dead}} Salmanson later changed the call letters to WKOS{{cite book|title=The Broadcasting Yearbook 1990|year=1990|page=B-199|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1990/B-Radio-NE-Terr-BC-YB-1990.pdf|access-date=November 30, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (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).{{cite web|url=http://lists.bostonradio.org/bri/v02/msg00011.html|title=Re: Portsmouth Market Snapshot|last=Beckwith|first=Chris|date=March 13, 1998|work=Boston-Radio-Interest|access-date=February 16, 2010}} (The WWNH call letters were reassigned to 1340 AM in Madbury, which operated from 1989 to 2010.) Another sale, this time to Bear Broadcasting Company, followed in 1990;{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=146080|title=Application Search Details (2)|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=February 16, 2010}} 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.{{cite book|title=The Broadcasting Yearbook 1991|year=1991|page=B-209|url=http://www.davidgleason.com/Archive%20BC-YB/1991/B-Radio-NE-MT-1991-B&W.pdf|access-date=November 30, 2010}}{{Dead link|date=April 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://bostonradio.org/boston-radio-interest/v01.n364|title=Portsmouth Market Snapshot|last=Thomas|first=Mike|date=March 11, 1998|work=Boston-Radio-Interest|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000917093101/http://bostonradio.org/boston-radio-interest/v01.n364|archive-date=September 17, 2000|access-date=February 16, 2010|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.broadcasting/msg/34ef4f7b89aeee29|title=New England Radio Watcher: WBMA/WBIV, WRGW, etc.|last=Fybush|first=Scott D|date=February 7, 1995|work=rec.radio.broadcasting|publisher=Google Groups|access-date=February 16, 2010}} In 1994, WZNN was again sold, this time to Precision Media,{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=191462|title=Application Search Details (3)|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=February 16, 2010}} owner of WMYF (1540 AM, now WPKC) and WERZ (107.1 FM); Precision reverted the station to standards in 1995, a format it also ran on WMYF.{{cite news|url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.broadcasting/msg/a18156894b894592|title=New England Radio Watcher: Etc.|last=Fybush|first=Scott D|date=May 2, 1995|work=rec.radio.broadcasting|publisher=Google Groups|access-date=February 16, 2010}} 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.{{cite news|url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.radio.broadcasting/msg/4aa8337217c6ad4c|title=New England Radio Watcher: WEEI, Doings in NH, etc.|last=Fybush|first=Scott D|date=June 1, 1995|work=rec.radio.broadcasting|publisher=Google Groups|access-date=February 16, 2010}}

Precision Media sold its stations in the market to American Radio Systems (ARS) in 1997.{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-970605.html|title=ARS Grows Again|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=June 5, 1997|work=North East RadioWatch|access-date=February 16, 2010}}

On March 17, 1997, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that 88 stations had been given permission to move to newly available "Expanded Band" transmitting frequencies, ranging from 1610 to 1700 kHz, with WZNN authorized to move from 930 to 1700 kHz.[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x004848309&view=1up&seq=276 "FCC Public Notice: Mass Media Bureau Announces Revised AM Expanded Band Allotment Plan and Filing Window for Eligible Stations"] (FCC DA 97-537), March 17, 1997. A construction permit for the expanded band station was assigned the call letters WAYU on March 6, 1998.[https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=87163 FCC Call Sign History] (Facility ID: 87163)

ARS sold WZNN and the WAYU construction permit, along with its other Seacoast properties, to Capstar Broadcasting in the midst of a merger with CBS Radio.{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-971218.html|title=North East RadioWatch|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=December 18, 1997|access-date=February 16, 2010}} Capstar converted WZNN and WMYF to a simulcast of Manchester sister station WGIR (an arrangement billed on-air as the "Action News Network"{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-980925.html|title=WNFT, WNTN Sold|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=September 25, 1998|work=North East RadioWatch|access-date=February 15, 2010}}) in September 1998, with 930 taking the WGIN callsign soon afterward.{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-981001.html|title=WNNZ Sold to Clear Channel|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=October 1, 1998|work=North East RadioWatch|access-date=February 15, 2010}}{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-981009.html|title=Clear Channel Gets Jacor|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=October 9, 1998|work=North East RadioWatch|access-date=February 15, 2010}} (The standards format would later be revived, under the WMYF callsign, on 1380 AM; that station, after several format changes, shut down in 2015.) Along with the WGIR simulcast came an affiliation with NBC Radio, which was subsequently phased out by Westwood One in favor of CNN Radio. A few months later, Capstar merged with fellow Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst subsidiary Chancellor Media to form AMFM Broadcasting,{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-990521.html|title=NHPR Goes North|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=May 21, 1999|work=North East RadioWatch|access-date=February 16, 2010}} which itself announced a merger with Clear Channel Communications (now known as iHeartMedia) several months afterward.{{cite news|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-991008.html|title=The Big Get Bigger -- Again|last=Fybush|first=Scott|date=October 8, 1999|work=North East RadioWatch|access-date=February 16, 2010}}

The FCC policy for expanded band stations was that both the original station and its expanded band counterpart could operate simultaneously for up to five years, after which owners would have to turn in one of the two licenses, depending on whether they preferred the new assignment or elected to remain on the original frequency. Plans for the unbuilt WAYU on 1700 AM were abandoned, and its construction permit was canceled on December 22, 2000.{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/sta_det.pl?Facility_id=87163|title=Station Search Details (DWAYU)|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=February 16, 2010}} (WRCR in Ramapo, New York, later took advantage of this in order to move from 1300 to 1700 kHz.)[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435081489569&view=1up&seq=509 "In The Matter of Alexander Broadcasting, Inc."] (FCC 06-125), Adopted: August 17, 2006, Released: August 22, 2006, pages 9968-9973.

The station picked up Fox News Radio in the mid-2000s after Clear Channel signed a larger agreement with the service.{{cite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2004/12/06/daily2.html?jst=b_ln_hl|title=Clear Channel tunes in Fox News as primary news provider|date=December 6, 2004|work=San Antonio Business Journal|publisher=American City Business Journals|access-date=February 16, 2010}} In April 2011, WGIN dropped the WGIR simulcast and began to simulcast WMYF (by then an all-sports station affiliated with ESPN Radio);{{cite news|last=Fybush|first=Scott|title=WBEN Adds FM|url=http://www.fybush.com/NERW/2011/110411/nerw.html|access-date=April 30, 2011|newspaper=NorthEast Radio Watch|date=April 11, 2011}} on February 7, 2012, the call sign was changed to WPKX.{{cite web|title=Call Sign History|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=53387|work=FCC LMS database|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=February 8, 2012}} Most of the syndicated programming previously heard on WGIN is now carried on sister station WQSO. In 2013, the simulcast with WMYF ended and WPKX shifted to Fox Sports Radio.

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