WMOU (1230 AM) is a radio station licensed to

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, United States, with offices located in

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. The station serves New Hampshire's

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. WMOU is owned by Barry P. and Brian Lunderville.

History

The station was assigned the call letters WIGW in 1987; in 1989 the station changed its call sign to the current WMOU. In July 2000, Jericho Broadcasting Co. LLC (Arnold P. Hanson Jr. and Steven D. Griffin, both managers/50% owners) reached an agreement to purchase WMOU from New England Broadcasting Inc. (Stephen E. Powell, president). At the time of the sale, WMOU broadcast an

adult standards Adult standards (also sometimes known as the nostalgia or Big Band format) is a North American radio format heard primarily on AM or class A FM stations. Adult standards started in the 1950s and is aimed at "mature" adults, meaning mainly tho ...

music format. In the fall of 2008, WMOU began simulcasting the morning show of WLTN-FM and simulcasting WXXS the rest of the day and weekends. The station also added a

broadcast translator A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or tran ...

, 106.1 W294AZ. During top-of-the-hour station identifications, WMOU is referred to on-air as "Kiss 106.1" in reference to the translator.

Former on-air staff

Former WMOU employees (when the station was owned by Bob and Gladys Powell) include Leslie Howe, Donna "DL Daniels", James Patry, Sam Dube, Paul Gagne, Jay Charland, Mike Emery, Charlie in the morning and Carol Miller. Miller still performs a big band show each Saturday. A mainstay of the station under various owners was Robert "Bob" Barbin. Barbin was news director for several decades and hosted a local radio/call in show ''Forum''. During the Presidential Primary season, Forum was a frequent stop for politicos of all stripes. Barbin also hosted the local ''Swap Shop'' program. Barbin was laid off from the station during the latest round of cost cutting under Lunderville. In another cost-cutting measure, the WMOU offices were consolidated into the WLTN offices in downtown

; the building in Berlin containing the former location of the WMOU studios is on the market to eventually be sold to a new owner. Shortly thereafter, local programming on WMOU was dropped, in favor of simulcasting co-owned stations.

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* {{Contemporary Hit Radio Stations in New Hampshire MOU Radio stations established in 1987 Berlin, New Hampshire Coös County, New Hampshire Contemporary hit radio stations in the United States