WZBK

For the Brookfield, Wisconsin radio station that held the call sign WZBK-FM at 106.9 FM from 2010 to 2012, see WNRG-FM.
WZBK
City of license Keene, New Hampshire
Slogan "Keene's Sports Authority"
Frequency 1220 kHz
Format Sports Talk
Power 1000 watts (day)
146 watts (night)
Class D
Facility ID 57227
Transmitter coordinates 42°55′50″N 72°18′0″W / 42.93056°N 72.30000°W / 42.93056; -72.30000
Former callsigns WKBK[1]
Owner Monadnock Radio Group
(Saga Communications of New Hampshire, LLC)
Sister stations WKBK, WKNE, WINQ, WSNI
Website espnkeene.com
Logo used between March 31, 2011 and January 2015, before the addition of 104.1 W281AU-FM.

WZBK (1220 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Keene, New Hampshire, USA. The station is owned by Monadnock Radio Group (Saga Communications) and licensed to Saga Communications of New Hampshire, LLC. It airs an Sports radio format.[2]

The station was assigned the WZBK call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on August 14, 2002.[1] After a decision by the Federal Communications Commission, WZBK began broadcasting at 103.1 FM on its FM translator on May 16, 2008.

In October 2008, WZBK dropped its adult standards format in favor of a simulcast of the news/talk programming of sister station WKVT from Brattleboro, Vermont.[3] In January 2009, the FM simulcast was dropped and replaced by an oldies format branded as "Cool 103.1".

On March 31, 2011, the simulcast of WKVT-AM was replaced by a sports radio format, largely from ESPN Radio with a local afternoon drive show and local sports.

References

  1. 1 2 "Call Sign History". FCC Media Bureau CDBS Public Access Database.
  2. ↑ "Winter 2008 Station Information Profile". Arbitron.
  3. ↑ "Keene Radio Listeners To Be Hit With A "Left" And A "Right"". WKBK. Retrieved 2008-09-27.

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