Colorado Media Newsroom
February 1st, 2023, 07:00 AM
From Radio Insight:
https://i0.wp.com/radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2023/02/wbyy.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1Binnie Media has flipped its “Frank-FM (https://frankfmradio.com)” trimulcast in New Hampshire from Hot AC back to Classic Hits.
106.3 WFNQ Nashua/Manchester, 98.3 WLNH-FM Laconia/Concord, and 98.7 WBYY Somersworth/Portsmouth are now positioning as “The Soundtrack Of” with each market following. The stations are running the same music logs with local imaging inserts. The stations are now running jockless with most of the airstaff continuing with their other roles in the company.
One who has exited was morning host Mark ‘Nazzy’ Nazzaro, who was laid off from the company in mid-January. Binnie Media VP/Programming Heath Cole told the Concord Monitor at the time (https://www.concordmonitor.com/Nazzy-still-sounds-snazzy-after-leaving-Binnie-49624235) that further changes could be coming as the company expands its News/Talk (https://thepulseofnh.com) programming, ?It?s a reconstruction of the workforce here in Concord heading into the spring. He?s been like part of the family for years, but the music format that we do will change. He?s a music guy and would not blend in well with the news.?
The format shift reverses the move from Classic Hits to Hot AC that was completed in January 2022 (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/218175/binnie-makes-musical-shifts-in-new-hampshire/).
The 7am hour on Frank-FM consisted of:
Huey Lewis & The News – Power of Love
Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night
U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Fleetwood Mac – You Make Loving Fun
Mr. Mister – Kyrie
Motels – Only The Lonely
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
Talking Heads – Burning Down The House
Coldplay – Clocks
Go-Go’s – We Got The Beat
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/248183/new-hampshires-frank-fm-returns-to-classic-hits/)
https://i0.wp.com/radioinsight.com/wp-content/images/2023/02/wbyy.jpg?resize=200%2C200&ssl=1Binnie Media has flipped its “Frank-FM (https://frankfmradio.com)” trimulcast in New Hampshire from Hot AC back to Classic Hits.
106.3 WFNQ Nashua/Manchester, 98.3 WLNH-FM Laconia/Concord, and 98.7 WBYY Somersworth/Portsmouth are now positioning as “The Soundtrack Of” with each market following. The stations are running the same music logs with local imaging inserts. The stations are now running jockless with most of the airstaff continuing with their other roles in the company.
One who has exited was morning host Mark ‘Nazzy’ Nazzaro, who was laid off from the company in mid-January. Binnie Media VP/Programming Heath Cole told the Concord Monitor at the time (https://www.concordmonitor.com/Nazzy-still-sounds-snazzy-after-leaving-Binnie-49624235) that further changes could be coming as the company expands its News/Talk (https://thepulseofnh.com) programming, ?It?s a reconstruction of the workforce here in Concord heading into the spring. He?s been like part of the family for years, but the music format that we do will change. He?s a music guy and would not blend in well with the news.?
The format shift reverses the move from Classic Hits to Hot AC that was completed in January 2022 (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/218175/binnie-makes-musical-shifts-in-new-hampshire/).
The 7am hour on Frank-FM consisted of:
Huey Lewis & The News – Power of Love
Rod Stewart – Tonight’s The Night
U2 – I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
Rolling Stones – Jumpin’ Jack Flash
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Fleetwood Mac – You Make Loving Fun
Mr. Mister – Kyrie
Motels – Only The Lonely
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
Talking Heads – Burning Down The House
Coldplay – Clocks
Go-Go’s – We Got The Beat
more (https://radioinsight.com/headlines/248183/new-hampshires-frank-fm-returns-to-classic-hits/)