WKXL
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WKXL (1450 AM and 103.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a talk radio format.
Licensed to Concord, New Hampshire, United States, the station serves the Concord area.
The station is currently owned by New Hampshire Family Radio LLC, itself owned by former Senator Gordon J. Humphrey, and features programming from AP Radio.
The historic Eagle Hotel housed WKXL's first studios and offices On December 6, 1945, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a construction permit to Charles M. Dale,
then the sitting Governor of New Hampshire, for a new 250-watt radio station on 1450 kHz in Concord.
The station signed on June 15, with studios in the historic Eagle Hotel and an adjoining building.
After five years, Dale sold WKXL to Capitol Broadcasting Corporation, a consortium formed by part-owners of WFEA at Manchester, for $50,000 in 1951.
Under Capitol ownership, the station became a CBS Radio affiliate from 1951 to 1959 and again beginning in December 1962.
The original principals in Capitol sold the company to H. Scott Killgore, a 20-year radio veteran, for $75,000 in 1954.
That same year, Tom Shovan, who would be instrumental in shaping the careers of Rick Dees and Laura Schlesinger, started his radio career as a disc jockey at WKXL; he was just 12 years old.
Another sale followed three years later to Patrick Estes and Joseph Close, owners of WKNE (1290 kHz) in Keene and WKNY in Kingston, New York.
A power increase followed to 1,000 watts during the day, approved in 1961.
The station expanded its service to FM when WKXL-FM 102.
3, an 80 percent simulcast of the AM frequency and its middle of the road format, began broadcasting on March 7, 1972.
In 1980, Estes, who had bought out Close, sold the WKXL sta...
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