WZID (95.7 FM) is an American radio station located at 500 Commercial Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. Its signal can be heard as far south as Route 128 in Massachusetts, as far east as southern Maine and as far west as Vermont.

History [link]

The station was born October 2, 1947 as WKBR FM. Throughout the 1960s, and very early 1970s, WKBR-FM simulcasted the Top 40 format of WKBR-AM 1250, providing that station with significant extended coverage. In July 1971, WKBR FM became WZID FM, and the format was flipped to beautiful music. In October 1990, Sunshine Broadcasting of New Hampshire Inc. announced the sale of WFEA/WZID to Saga Communications Inc. of Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. The sale was finalized April 16, 1991. Saga Communications of New England LLC operates the station today. WZID's President and General Manager is Raymond Garon.^[2]

Translators [link]

WZID used to be heard on translator station, W270AH 101.9 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. However in 2008, Saga Communications filed a series of minor translator applications which moved the translator into the Keene radio market as W276CB, a translator of Saga radio station WKNE's HD Channel as "Kool 103.1".

Up until mid-January 2009, WZID had two more translators, W231BR 94.1 in Manchester at 250 watts and W276BJ103.1 in Concord, also at 250 watts, but in January 2009 those two translators were turned into the new "Hot Hits 94.1 and 103.1", a simulcast of WZID's HD-2 channel, which is a top 40 station broadcasting Dial Global's Hits Now! format; branding themselves as the new hit music station in New Hampshire. Saga Communications obviously had been planning this out for some time because both the translator's power was recently increased from low power to 250 watts. This station somewhat poses as a threat to WJYY and even WFTN-FM, but has an inferior signal compared to the two. The website is Hot Hits 94.1 + 103.1 and the full feature version recently launched. Saga was able to open up this new station due to a loophole in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules that allows HD-2 stations to be repeated on translators.

References [link]

External links [link]

• WZID Website
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WZID
• Radio-Locator information on WZID
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WZID
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W231BR
• Query the FCC's FM station database for W276BJ