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WGIR (AM)
WGIR (610 kHz "News Radio 610") is a commercial AM radio station in Manchester, New Hampshire, with a news/talk radio format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WGIR's studios and offices are on Foundry Street in Manchester. Much of the programming and news, but not the commercials, can be heard on co-owned WQSO 96.7 MHz in Rochester, serving the New Hampshire Seacoast.
The transmitter is on Stark Lane in Manchester, near Interstate 293 Exit 7. WGIR is powered at 5,000 watts by day; to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 610, it reduces power at night to 1,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times.
Weekdays begin with a local news and interview show, "New Hampshire Today", hosted by Chris Ryan, also heard on several other stations in the state. The rest of the schedule consists of nationally syndicated shows, including The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Dave Ramsey Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekend feature programs on money, health, law, technology and the Paul Parent Garden Club, as well as best-of editions of weekday programming. Some weekend shows are paid brokered programming. Syndicated weekend shows include The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte, Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham and Somewhere in Time with Art Bell. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio, followed by New Hampshire news from local reporters.
WGIR is the flagship station of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team. Additionally, WGIR is co-flagship of the Wildcat Sports Network along with sister stations 930 WPKX and 96.7 WQSO. The network airs college football, hockey and basketball from the University of New Hampshire.
The station signed on the air on October 2, 1941, as WMUR, owned by former New Hampshire Governor Francis P. Murphy. WMUR was an NBC Blue Network affiliate. WMUR carried the Blue Network line up of dramas, comedies, news and sports during the "Golden Age of Radio". The Blue Network later became ABC Radio.
An FM sister station on 95.7 MHz was added on December 21, 1947, which largely simulcast the AM station. Plans for an FM station had been in place for seven years. However, few people owned FM radios at the time and management doubted the FM station would ever be profitable. WMUR-FM was shut down December 27, 1950. The frequency is now occupied by WZID.
A few years later, Murphy decided to apply for a television station on Channel 9. Murphy had to compete against applications from WFEA, WKBR (now WGAM), and the Manchester Union-Leader, the local daily newspaper headed by William Loeb III. Murphy won the construction permit, and WMUR-TV signed on March 28, 1954.
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WGIR (AM)
WGIR (610 kHz "News Radio 610") is a commercial AM radio station in Manchester, New Hampshire, with a news/talk radio format. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. WGIR's studios and offices are on Foundry Street in Manchester. Much of the programming and news, but not the commercials, can be heard on co-owned WQSO 96.7 MHz in Rochester, serving the New Hampshire Seacoast.
The transmitter is on Stark Lane in Manchester, near Interstate 293 Exit 7. WGIR is powered at 5,000 watts by day; to avoid interfering with other stations on AM 610, it reduces power at night to 1,000 watts. It uses a directional antenna at all times.
Weekdays begin with a local news and interview show, "New Hampshire Today", hosted by Chris Ryan, also heard on several other stations in the state. The rest of the schedule consists of nationally syndicated shows, including The Glenn Beck Program, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, The Sean Hannity Show, The Dave Ramsey Show, Coast to Coast AM with George Noory and This Morning, America's First News with Gordon Deal.
Weekend feature programs on money, health, law, technology and the Paul Parent Garden Club, as well as best-of editions of weekday programming. Some weekend shows are paid brokered programming. Syndicated weekend shows include The Tech Guy with Leo Laporte, Sunday Night Live with Bill Cunningham and Somewhere in Time with Art Bell. Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio, followed by New Hampshire news from local reporters.
WGIR is the flagship station of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats minor league baseball team. Additionally, WGIR is co-flagship of the Wildcat Sports Network along with sister stations 930 WPKX and 96.7 WQSO. The network airs college football, hockey and basketball from the University of New Hampshire.
The station signed on the air on October 2, 1941, as WMUR, owned by former New Hampshire Governor Francis P. Murphy. WMUR was an NBC Blue Network affiliate. WMUR carried the Blue Network line up of dramas, comedies, news and sports during the "Golden Age of Radio". The Blue Network later became ABC Radio.
An FM sister station on 95.7 MHz was added on December 21, 1947, which largely simulcast the AM station. Plans for an FM station had been in place for seven years. However, few people owned FM radios at the time and management doubted the FM station would ever be profitable. WMUR-FM was shut down December 27, 1950. The frequency is now occupied by WZID.
A few years later, Murphy decided to apply for a television station on Channel 9. Murphy had to compete against applications from WFEA, WKBR (now WGAM), and the Manchester Union-Leader, the local daily newspaper headed by William Loeb III. Murphy won the construction permit, and WMUR-TV signed on March 28, 1954.