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| Broadcast area | Manchester, New Hampshire |
| Frequency | 107.7MHz |
| Branding | 107.7 WTPL |
| Programming | |
| Format | News/talk |
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| History | |
First air date | October 1, 1989; 36 years ago (1989-10-01) |
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Call sign meaning | "The Pulse" |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 54910 |
| Class | A |
| ERP | 1,250 watts |
| HAAT | 217 meters (712 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 43°9′17.2″N71°47′42.2″W / 43.154778°N 71.795056°W /43.154778; -71.795056 |
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Public license information | |
| Webcast | Listen live |
| Website | thepulseofnh |
WTPL (107.7FM) is a radio station broadcasting anews/talk format. Licensed toHillsborough, New Hampshire, United States, it serves theManchester area. The station is owned byBill Binnie's Binnie Media, through licensee WBIN Media Co., Inc. It airs anews/talkradio format. It the flagship station of "The Pulse of NH", a trimulcast withWTSN in theSeacoast Region andWEMJ in theLakes Region.
The originalconstruction permit for the station was granted on August 4, 1987,[2] under the call sign of WRCI;[3] a license to cover was granted on September 7, 1990.[4] However, the station's original owners, Empire Radio Partners, filed forChapter 11 bankruptcy in 1992,[5] and the station was sold to Radioworks in 1993.[6] By 1994, WRCI was serving as a simulcast of its then-sister stationWJYY (105.5), anadult contemporary station.[7] The station had changed simulcast partners to WNHI (93.3; nowWNHW),[8] aclassic rock station,[9] by 1996.[8]
Radioworks sold its stations to Vox Media in 1999,[10] and on December 27 the station was converted to the current news/talk format by way of a simulcast with another Vox station,WKXL, as part of a format shuffle that resulted in WKXL's original FM station, on 102.3, becoming thecountry music station WOTX-FM (nowWAKC).[11] The WKXL-FM call sign moved to 107.7 the following February.[12]
Vox sold WKXL to Embro Communications in 2002.[13] The sale did not include WKXL-FM or its programming; as a result, WKXL launched a separate news/talk format, with its prior programming remaining on 107.7 under the new call letters of WTPL.[14] Embro took over WTPL as well under alocal marketing agreement the next year, and reintroduced some shared programming, including a talk show hosted byArnie Arnesen.[15] Vox then sold WTPL to Great Eastern Radio (whose principal, Jeff Shapiro, had co-owned Vox with Bruce Danzinger[7]), in 2004,[16] and soon afterward the station again became independent of WKXL,[17] relocating to studios inBow, New Hampshire, and a transmitter atopPats Peak, both originally constructed forWNNH (99.1).[7] Clark Smidt, who founded WNNH, was involved with WTPL's operations at the time.[17]
Effective August 1, 2017, Great Eastern Radio sold WTPL,WLKZ, andWZEI to Dirk Nadon's Lakes Media, LLC for $2.6 million. Lakes Media immediately agreed to sell WTPL to Binnie Media for $1.3 million and turned over the station's operations to Binnie under alocal marketing agreement;[18] the sale was completed on November 16, 2017.[19]
Weekday programming includes a local morning news and talk program,Morning Information Center, hosted by Mike Pomp; followed byGood Morning New Hampshire, hosted by Jack Heath.Syndicated programming includesThe Rob Carson Show;Boston-basedHowie Carr;Joe Pags;Rich Valdés America At Night; andRed Eye Radio. Most hours begin withFox News Radio.
Weekend shows includeNortheast Delta Dental Radio,Half Hour to Health, and nationally syndicated programsReal Estate Today andInfoTrak.
Sports programming includes live coverage ofBoston Red Sox baseball andBoston Bruins hockey.