WINQ-FM (98.7

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, "WINK Country 98.7") is a radio station licensed to serve

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. The station is owned by Saga Communications licensed to Saga Communications of New England, LLC, and operates as part of its Monadnock Broadcasting Group. It airs a

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format. The station first signed on as WKBK-FM offering the same programming as WKBK (1220 AM, now

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) until its sale. It then became

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WXOD on October 1, 1991. The station changed its call sign to WINQ on January 1, 2005. It changed its call sign to the current WINQ-FM on June 19, 2018.

Translators

W270AH, the former

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translator in

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, is now W276CB (103.1 FM) in Keene. After having relayed WKNE-HD3 for a while, W276CB has been relaying WINQ-FM's second

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channel since December 2018.

References

External links

WINQ-FM official website
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Monadnock Broadcasting Group
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