area branding 1590 wsmn slogan nashua s news & talk frequency 1590 khz first air date march 9 1958 format news talk power 5 000 watts fulltime class b facility id 102 transmitter coordinates 42 44 40.00 n 71 29 52.00 w 42.7444444 n 71.4977778 w 42.7444444 ; 71.4977778 licensed 42 45 34.00 n 71 28 37.00 w 42.7594444 n 71.4769444 w 42.7594444 ; 71.4769444 sta callsign meaning we serve manchester and nashua or salem manchester and nashua or weather sports music and news affiliations irn usa radio news talk radio network dial global owner absolute broadcasting llc sister stations wgam wghm webcast listen live website wsmn1590.com wsmn 1590 am is an american radio station broadcasting a news talk format . licensed to nashua new hampshire usa the station serves the manchester area . the station is owned by absolute broadcasting llc and features programing from talk radio network and dial global . 1 contents 1 history 2 programming 3 former personalities 4 references 5 external links history edit wsmn signed on march 9 1958 . the first voice heard was that of manchester new hampshire native frank g. teas who spent the next 44 years with the organization until he retired in december 2002 . 2 original owner merrimack valley broadcasting system 3 sold the station only one year later to 1590 broadcasting corporation . 4 by 1971 wsmn had a middle of the road format mixed in with talk ; 5 this format remained in place through the decade . 2 during the mid 1990s wsmn attempted a country music format ; however this format became less viable for the station after boston country station wklb fm moved from 96.9 fm now wbqt to 99.5 fm now wcrb and it reverted to adult standards in december 1997 . 6 this was short lived ; in march 1998 the station changed to news talk though some timeslots were temporarily filled with adult contemporary music for a time . 7 initially locally oriented 7 in june wsmn began adding nationally produced programming including talk america shows and business news from bloomberg radio . 8 two years later tom o brien signed a local marketing agreement to take over the station s operations . 9 wsmn was forced off the air february 1 2005 after losing the lease to its transmitter and studio site on west hollis street route 111 . 10 the license was sold to absolute broadcasting owner of wsnh 900 ; now wghm that july 11 and the station returned to the air in october from the wsnh tower running a low power special temporary authority signal . 12 initially simulcasting wsnh s espn radio programming 12 the station began shifting back to a news talk format in early 2006 . 13 wsmn holds a construction permit from the u.s. federal communications commission to build a new three tower antenna array west of their old location . instead of using the same directional pattern full time there will be different directional patterns for day and night . programming edit wsmn airs nashua this morning with george russell during morning drive and various local programming in middays . syndicated programming on the station includes the fred thompson show the jerry doyle show and the laura ingraham show . wsmn is an affiliate of irn usa radio news . former personalities edit al rock general manager ed lecius sr news director frank teas sr program director weldon haire 14 maury parent jeff radzik eric nuernberg eric o neil nick diamond jim liversidge robert woody woodland chuck o neil gerry wood kevin farwell john halpert dee dee leigh griff vautier russ cooper dale lonroth hal hillard tony broseau leo zani steve shaw herb andrews earnie anastos references edit wsmn facility record . united states federal communications commission audio division . a b broadcasting yearbook 1981 pdf . 1981 . p. c 147 . retrieved february 17 2010 . broadcasting yearbook 1958 pdf . 1958 . p. a 320 . retrieved february 17 2010 . broadcasting yearbook 1959 pdf . 1959 . p. b 186 . retrieved february 17 2010 . broadcasting yearbook 1971 pdf . 1971 . p. b 130 . retrieved february 17 2010 . fybush scott december 18 1997 . north east radiowatch . north east radiowatch . retrieved february 17 2010 . a b fybush scott march 19 1998 . more layoffs in n.h. . north east radiowatch . retrieved february 17 2010 . fybush scott june 4 1998 . tornado topples wivt . north east radiowatch . retrieved february 17 2010 . fybush scptt december 4 2000 . http www.bostonradio.org nerw nerw 001204.html . north east radiowatch . retrieved february 17 2010 . external link in title help fybush scott february 7 2005 . qantum buys the cape ; cherry creek buys the east end ; wsmn goes dark . northeast radio watch . retrieved february 17 2010 . fybush scott july 4 2005 . pop goes cool pop in harrisburg . northeast radio watch . retrieved february 17 2010 . a b fybush scott october 24 2005 . a wild shift for radio one boston . north east radiowatch . retrieved february 19 2010 . fybush scott january 9 2006 . new troubles for maynard s wavm . north east radiowatch . retrieved february 19 2010 . around the town . the telegraph . march 13 1958 . retrieved december 30 2011 . external links edit official website query the fcc s am station database for wsmn radio locator information on wsmn query nielsen audio s am station database for wsmn fcc construction permit v t e radio stations in the manchester new hampshire market by am frequency 610 900 1250 1320 1370 1590 by fm frequency 89.1 90.5 90.7 92.1 92.5 94.1 95.7 96.5 97.5 97.9 99.5 101.1 102.9 104.5 105.1 105.5 106.3 106.9 107.7 by callsign w231br w250ab w295bl wbnh lp wcrb wder wevo wfea wfnq wgam wghm wgir wgir fm wjyy wllo lp wlmw wmll wokq wsmn wtpl wxlo wxrv wydi wzid new hampshire radio markets concord lakes region lebanon manchester portsmouth dover rochester other new hampshire radio regions northern new hampshire see also list of radio stations in new hampshire boston radio v t e news talk radio stations in the state of new hampshire by callsign wasr wccm wemj wgir wkbk wkxl wqso wsmn wtpl wtsn w280ec w281au by frequency 610 1110 1270 1290 1420 1450 1490 1590 96.7 103.9 104.1 107.7 by community of license concord dover hillsboro keene laconia manchester nashua rochester salem wolfeboro see also adult contemporary classic hits college country news talk npr oldies religious rock sports top 40 urban other radio stations in new hampshire retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wsmn & oldid 743328629 categories radio stations in new hampshireradio stations established in 1958nashua new hampshirehillsborough county new hampshirenews and talk radio stations in the united stateshidden categories cs1 errors external linksuse mdy dates from april 2012 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 04 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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